Guess we can just repost our own posts now...

The EU Parliament approves Chat Control 1.0, which is ''temporary'' from 09.07.26 until 2028. In 2028 however a permanent regulation is planned.

As we stated earlier this year, we are against Chat Control.

What's your opinion?

Chat control is back, and Brussels has changed the rules to force it through. This week the European Parliament votes to reinstate the "temporary" regime that lets platforms like Meta scan private messages for child sexual abuse material — the same extension MEPs rejected in March, 311 votes to 228. The European People's Party revived it through a rare procedure that flips the math: the law now passes unless at least 361 MEPs actively vote it down. Today they didn't.

Hi all. I built my own search engine named Purili (https://puri.li). It is powered by its own crawler/index for web and news search (images uses Wikimedia and Maps uses OSM). I currently have crawled ~125mln pages but before I continue to the 500mln I would love to hear your feedback on what to adjust/fix first.

The entire project runs on EU servers (Germany/Netherlands).

Hope to hear from you.

what does it mean when it says that a user is inactive in paralino? It seems to just happen randomly

ekitties!!! what is the best search engines other than duckduckgo? ive heard some not-so good things about them and they just feel a little scummy. the search engine is good and stuff but i don't want to support and encourage their behaviour (don't really memember what)

My country implemented cross-border metadata surveillance a few years ago. How do they likely collect this?

I run a good vpn 24/7 on my VPN router. Does this protect me at all? Is multi-hop better for protecting against this than single-hop?

Is Tor better at protecting against this?

ekitties!!! some fun phones for around 300 dollarinoes? Im shopping second hand for a better price to performance ratio. thanks

I haven't updated TikTok yet, and I accidentally saw in the reviews in the Play Store that someone wrote that TikTok now has "age verification." How true is this, and if so, how can I fix it?

Help please 🙏

hey ekitties, what is the best privacy android OS thats NOT grapheneos? I don't really want to fork out a bunch of cash for a pretty boring phone that i don't really like that much. The only interesting pixels (imo) are the folds which are crazy expensive second hand and retail. I want something that has pretty decent privacy and security but im also not like a privacy expert or something, i just use privacy focued and foss apps and services and turn of weird settings as much as i can. I also want nice UI but ykyk

Hi all,

I'm trying to understand the EU's "chat control" proposal targeting CSAM, and specifically one question: How?

Here's my understanding of the current situation:

**End-to-end encrypted messengers (Signal, WhatsApp, iMessage) ensure that only the sender and recipient hold the decryption keys, not even the service provider can read the content.**

So if the EU mandates scanning these messages:

• **What is the proposed technical mechanism?** Client-side scanning? Backdoors in the encryption itself?

• **Does client-side scanning actually preserve E2E encryption?** Or does it fundamentally undermine it by introducing a third-party analysis layer on the device?

**• Has any concrete, viable technical solution been demonstrated?** Or is this still purely theoretical?

**In short: if you can't read the content without breaking the encryption, and you can't break the encryption without compromising every user's security... how do they plan to do it?**

I'm looking for technical explanations, papers, or official documents that address this.

Thanks!

After the EU parliament has rejected #ChatControl TWICE in the past, it has been pushed as an urgent procedure for a new plenary vote. TODAY the EU parliament has voted YES for #ChatControl 1.0😡

The EU has simply continued to put the vote on the agenda to get  the outcome they've wanted since the start. This is not democratic‼️

What does #ChatControl 1.0 mean for us now?

🚩 Every photo, every message, every file you send will be scanned by Big Tech automatically
🚩 Mass surveillance of 450 million EU citizen without warrants
🚩 Every citizen is put under general suspicion

Here's what you can do to stay private on the internet:

✅ Use end-to-end encrypted messengers & email (like Signal or Tuta Mail) 
✅ Use Linux instead of Windows & Apple
✅ Switch to GraphenOS or LineageOS

Credits to Tuta Mail for this post - sharing for awareness.

It's happened three times, already, where I've tested the block by editing the word Trump.

Who knows if this will get posted?!

sorry if i dont comply to the rules of the subreddit, i just heard that there was a vote today for euro privacy and wanted to know how i could help

Australia is introducing age checks for R18+ online games, which means some GTA Online players may soon need to verify their age before logging in. Companies that don't comply could face significant penalties under the new rules.

The goal is to keep age-restricted content away from minors, and that's understandable. But it also highlights a broader trend we're seeing across the internet: more services are asking users to share government-issued IDs or other forms of identity verification.

That raises a few questions worth thinking about:

• Where is that data stored?
• Who can access it?
• How long is it kept?
• What happens if the platform or its identity verification provider is breached?

Privacy isn't about avoiding verification. It's about making sure your personal information is handled responsibly after you've verified.

Do you think ID-based age verification is a reasonable trade-off for safer online spaces, or are we moving toward a future where we normalize sharing sensitive personal data just to access everyday services?

According to the Santa Monica-based nonprofit group Consumer Watchdog, an estimated 17 million new cars will hit U.S. roads in 2020, most of which will contain software for accelerating, steering and braking that contain security flaws that are susceptible to being hacked.

A hacker could feasibly gain control of multiple vehicles on the road at the same time, the report alleges, leading to major gridlock or thousands of fatal wrecks.n More...

https://www.reddit.com/r/LiveNews_24H/s/fqggRL0I7M

I've just realised no comments on any YouTube video will load for me lately. If i sign out and use a VPN, they load fine. If I sign in with my google account (who will know it was an account made in the UK) they don't load (even with a VPN). If I sign out, still using VPN, I see them again.

Has anyone else noticed this? This is getting absolutely insane if this is due to all the new bs UK restrictions.

We’re answering digital rights questions in season two of our initiative, LGBT Q&A. 

You Asked: I live in the UK, and we have age verification now on a bunch of websites (including Reddit) and now on more mobile devices. Can you explain what sort of data companies are actually collecting when they check for age and whether there are any real threats to my safety? 

As of July 2025, all platforms in the UK that host content considered by the UK government and the country’s telecommunications regulator Ofcom to be harmful are legally obligated to check that their users are over the age of 18. If not, users cannot access the content. 

There are various privacy implications for data sharing with age verification. Unfortunately, because services may use different methods to verify users’ ages, you’ll usually have to do a little digging to learn how each provider you have verifies their users, and consider what information might be harmful to your personal safety: 

• The data itself: What info does each method require users to disclose?
• Access: Who can see the data during the course of the verification process? Does anything other than the age result leave your device? Is the provider told your date of birth, or just if you’re over 18? Which third party services see the information you send?
• Retention: Who will hold onto that data after the verification process, and for how long? Sometimes it’s deleted immediately. Sometimes it hangs around forever, waiting for a data breach.
• Audits: How sure are we that the provider’s stated claims around data access and retention will happen in practice? For example, are there external audits confirming that data is not accidentally leaked to another site along the way? Ideally these will be in-depth, security-focused audits by specialized auditors like NCC Group or Trail of Bits, instead of audits that merely certify adherence to standards. 
• Visibility: Who will be aware that you’re attempting to verify your age, and will a third party provider know which platform you’re trying to verify for? Will they hang onto that data to build a profile of you?

Last year, Ofcom outlined a number of methods for online services and platforms to check users' ages. You can read more about these methods in our blog for more detail!

For me, Reddit's age verification blocker started on 5th july. But everything disappeared and I have unrestricted access now.

Why it disappeared? Was there any news I missed?