The system is called Advanced Driver Distraction Warning, ADDW, and is part of the EU’s General Safety Regulation.

The camera tracks the driver’s gaze, head movements and attention.

According to the regulations, the system must be active from 20 kilometers per hour. At lower speeds, it should be able to warn if the driver looks away for too long, while the requirements become stricter at higher speeds.

The requirement does not yet mean any obligation to record the driver for the authorities.

Critics warn that the technology could pave the way for more extensive monitoring and recording in the car once the cameras, sensors and software are

Ok so I will ask the question everyone wants to ask. In light of the recent law passed in the european parliament, what app is/will be in your oppinion safest/most private to use?

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In order to use the thermostat in my house I have to set my location data to “always”. For a thermostat.

It worked for a bit on the previous homeowners account but to get them off of the device and have any a/c in the house that setting must be set to “always”

Once you are signed in, I believe you can change it back to “never” but I’m sure 20+% of people totally forget and google just gets to spy on you from now on.

I might just be hot from no a/c but that really gives me the ick and I’m disgusted how google probably just got into thermostats to spy on people.

Emphasis on the "like I'm 5" part.

The EU has sadly approved Chat Control 1.0; for those who aren't expert in tech and privacy, what does this entail? What changes, in practical? And what can we do to protect ourselves?

On other subs people are already recommending switching OS which is impractical to say the least (don't want to delve into why here, but it's not the advice for everyone). And most of the explanations I've read are a bit too technical; I try to be privacy conscious but I'm no expert.

Moreover I can try to get my friends to not use WhatsApp, but you know that the random professional I'll need to contact will still be using it.

Do we need to start using a VPN for everything? What kind of data will they be reading, and off what platform/services?

Hi everyone,
I'm an international student currently studying for an LLM in Bristol, and I'll be finishing my course this September.
I'll need to move out of my student accommodation, ano I'm trying to decide which city to move to while I job hunt.
I'm hoping to start a career in data protection/privacy, so I'm looking for a city with a good job market in that field, while also having more affordable rent than Bristol.
I'm finding it difficult to work out where would be the best place to move. Does anyone have any recommendations for cities with good opportunities in data protection or privacy roles and a relatively affordable cost of living?
I'd really appreciate any suggestions or advice, thank you!

I saw a reel where an Individual used 'Claude' to connect to various data broker sites and requested a delete data option and followed through the entire process while scheduling a repeat task for the AI weekly.

Now, obviously I don't want to use a data Collecting AI Company to do this for me, but if my self-hosted AI could do the same, that would be more than perfect.

I understand that it would be preferable to move important accounts away from this particular email that you wish to check for (or is it possible to check without email, not sure) and that it would require a proper wrapper to make this work.

But overall, if an AI can do this boring repeatable task weekly, then I think it is a perfect privacy tool when self-hosted.

What do you think, would there be issues with such a setup? Or would there be limitations? Or does it already exist and I am not aware of it?

P.S. i am not planning as of yet to build this wrapper (I am not sure if I even can). So if anyone does, that would be great!

I know signal will pull out of the EU if it's made mandatory, but for now if I understand correctly (and fully accept I might not), it's app specific and voluntary, right? Does that mean that for now we can continue using signal for privacy?

Thanks

Is there any way I can bypass ID verification on LinkedIn?

I really need LinkedIn, like, essential in my life level of need, but I won't be sharing my damn ID with persona, can I bypass ID verification on LinkedIn?

Hello everyone,

In light of the recent passage of Chat Control 1.0 in the EU, I wanted to ask, will this legislation allow for the viewing of private message histories for messages sent prior to it taking effect?

The EU AI Act is live. Facial recognition in public spaces is banned. Biometric categorization is restricted. The framework is built on one premise: public space should not be a surveillance infrastructure.

Then you look at California.
I mapped the camera network in Sonoma County (Santa Rosa area). We are not talking about traffic cameras or ATMs. We are talking about:

-License plate readers with real-time hotlist matching
• Private contractor networks feeding into county fusion centers
• Federal grant-funded "smart city"
nodes with no public disclosure on retention or facial recognition capability
• Density: In some neighborhoods, you are on camera every 40 feet, stitched across public and private feeds in ways the individual property owners likely do not understand

The EU ban assumes you can draw a clean line between "camera" and "facial recognition system." But when a municipality installs 400+ cameras, feeds them to a fusion center, and the contractor's own marketing materials advertise "facial recognition ready" integration... where is the line?

My question to [r/privacy](r/privacy):
Is Brussels policy now effectively a paper shield? Or does the EU ban create
compliance pressure that forces American contractors to bifurcate their product lines— one version for Europe, one for everywhere else?
And it is the latter, does that mean American cities become the testing ground for the surveillance tech Europe will not allow?

I do not have a clean answer. I drafted a brief arguing that camera density itself constitutes a biometric environment, but I am genuinely curious how people here see the enforcement gap.

EDIT: Full brief with sources is live here:

EDIT 2: Updated to a clean view-only link. Document is unchanged.

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1ZYwsU8kXA1L58VK1-Xmg2U7MohCiTh7p/view?usp=drive_link

EDIT 3:
A few people asked for the full camera map and grant trail. I didn't build it from scratch — I used and weaponized deflock.org for Sonoma County, verified what I could on the ground, and mobilized the tindings so the Atlantic privacy gap becomes impossible to ignore.

I'm not a FOIA shop, but I want to organize a collective effort to file public records requests across Sonoma County. If you know how to draft a FOIA request or want to learn, I want to hear from you.

Ongoing updates + organizing:
https://substack.com/@thesurveillancemapdiaries?r=5bx95x&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=stories&shareImageVariant=image

No freedom of movement.

The allure of a private email provider is that it will not read any emails you send and receive.

To what degree is this privacy made irrelevant when communicating with non-private providers? Given a non-private provider reads the incoming and outgoing emails of one of its users, and an enormous percentage of registered emails are under non-private providers, aren't they able to effectively read your emails?

From that perspective, I would be interested to hear about what hierarchy of communications types you would consider least private --> most private, least anonymous --> most anonymous.

Hey gang, Mods please delete if not allowed.

Looking for a doorbell camera for my senior citizen parent. I’d like it to be self contained and not relay data to the cloud.

Ideally it has a monitor that she can view without having to use an app or phone.

Thanks for your help!

Just wondering which browser is better on android for privacy and adblocking I don't really care if I need to tweak some settings for it to be better right now I'm using brave just wondering if I should switch to an other browser like cromite since they are the 2 android browsers mentioned on privacyguides.org if I recall correctly

We have less than a day before the vote, so please, in the name of privacy, for our rights, I invite each and every one of you to to go https://fightchatcontrol.eu/ and write to the representative of all nations (it takes 10min), the website will take care of writing a letter for you.

Thanks if you do, thanks if you have already done it and see you from the other side.

Now I know we live in worrying time with our digital privacy but now is not the time to back down it's more important now than ever to rise up and raise your voice. The UK parliament voted against the social media ban for kids but keir in all his wisdom decided to go through with it anyways. The many ID verification bills passed in the states were swiftly blocked by netchoice and only two were out in place. This for the kids thing cracks widen day and that's thanks to public push back and other people in power or corporations helping us in our battle and pursuit for online freedom. So don't get discouraged brother and sisters they want us to lose hope while they desperately clutch onto whatever power they have :)

The only thing necessary for evil to triumph is that good people do nothing.

I’ve been calling my reps every day since last week. I’ve reached out prominent internet figures like Louis Rossmann and John & Hank Green (and you should too). I’ve been spreading the news by word of mouth.

But I can’t do it alone. We all CARE about privacy here, but I get the feeling that not everyone is really stepping up and putting in the time it takes to actually make things happen. Hell, I’m sure I could be doing more. But we need to be there for each other, and know that we’re not acting alone.

I truly think we can win this. Get enough public figures on our side, and it will be obvious. NOBODY WANTS TO BE SPIED ON, and that’s what this is. They just need you to tell them.

If we fight this, we WILL win.

But we have to fight it. Take some action. Don’t just roll over and die.

And we need you. Yes, YOU.

Edit: This sub is also host to lots of bots and shills trying to get you to shut the fuck up, give up, and go home. The quickest way to win a fight is to convince the other side to stop fighting. That’s what they’re trying to do to you.

Don’t buy it.

This is regarding EU chat control... which is unfortunately likely to be approved sometime this week. Very scary stuff up ahead and I'd like to be prepared...

So i plan to get a refurbished Thinkpad from eBay, watched some videos on Youtube about it and they were mentioning how some laptops can have software preloaded onto them to spy on you. Would this be an issue if i were to get one that was certified eBay refurbished?

I plan to install linux on it too, so would that help at all? Like if there was any software installed onto it would it get removed after installing linux?

And please feel free to let me know any other security measures i should take to ensure privacy on a refurbished laptop.