This Week In Privacy #69 will be live in 30 minutes, we'll be talking about how Google may have removed a key security feature from their Pixel 11 devices. We'll also be covering the latest privacy & security news!

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This Week In Privacy #68 will be live in 30 minutes, we'll be talking about how Nitter was just sent a cease and desist from X (Twitter) raising concerns over other frontends suffering the same fate. We'll also be covering the latest privacy & security news!

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How does your Password Manager stack up?

We created a tierlist video ranking them all from best to worst!

Did your favourite password manager get put in S-tier?

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This Week In Privacy #67 will be live in 30 minutes, we'll be talking about how Microsoft’s Copilot had a one-click vulnerability that let attackers quietly exfiltrate data, no user interaction required beyond a single click!

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This Week In Privacy #66 will be live in 30 minutes, we'll be talking about the new security upgrades on the Pixel 11 and whether it will support custom operating systems like GrapheneOS.

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It’s time to take back our streets.

Join the National Week of Action Against ALPRs from August 16–22, 2026.

Find local camera maps, organize city council actions, or download our activism toolkit to start your own group:

- Map & Campaign Info: https://noalprs.com
- Camera Tracker: https://deflock.org
- Activism Toolkit: https://privacyguides.org/activism

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️ Want to dive deeper?

We broke everything down in an easy to digest video, that goes into more detail about the topics in this Mastodon thread.

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https://youtu.be/ZDZlmDtlnvo

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If you drive in America, you’re being tracked in a giant dragnet.

Surveillance company "Flock Safety" has quietly deployed over 100,000 automated license plate readers (ALPRs) across 10,000+ US communities.

These aren't just capturing license plates, they're creating complete "vehicle fingerprints" including:

- Bumper stickers
- Luggage racks 🧳
- Dents & scratches
- Timestamped GPS locations

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Flock says that the data is secured and restricted to specific police departments.

Independent researchers have demonstrated that Flock's video feeds are accessible publicly, highlighting how dangerous mass location databases can be when compromised.

Flock recently updated their Terms-of-service quietly removing guarantees that user data wouldn't be sold.

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️ Surveillance isn't inevitable ️

Over 100 communities - including Austin, Denver, Cambridge, and Eugene have already canceled or suspended their Flock contracts.

Communities are fighting back against mass surveillance, and it's working. Automated license plate readers don't lower crime, they just invade public privacy and create a dystopian mass location database.

Removal is the only solution, vendor swapping just perpetuates the same surveillance system.

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️ This isn't being used for local crime prevention, researchers have found thousands of instances of Flock data being accessed across state lines.

In multiple states local police granted federal agencies (like ICE) access to Flock data, often sharing the data without express permission from local city councils.

Agents have been told to be "as vague as permissible" on paperwork to bypass public records requests.

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@Mik3y indeed, openSUSE is probably the best option if this is important to you (and I did note that in the article actually), but this is probably something I’d be less concerned about for all the reasons @niels shared.

We have a pretty good sense of what’d happen if RedHat mismanaged Fedora, because a few years ago when people took issue with RedHat’s CentOS changes, the community stepped in with Rocky & Alma Linux, and people formerly on CentOS had a pretty easy pathway out. Very likely something similar would happen with Fedora if things really went badly for whatever reason.

There is a growing sentiment that the US shouldn't be relied upon for the technologies that many people and businesses use every day.

While we prefer to focus on technical guarantees like strong end-to-end encryption over matters like jurisdiction, these issues still matter, and the United States certainly does not have a monopoly on the best technologies.

We've compiled a list of some of our favorite and highly recommended European privacy tools, to highlight how easy it can be to take your data back from American Big Tech companies: https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/03/19/private-european-alternatives/

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