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Privacy coverage is split between practical solutions—like privacy-preserving Ring-camera alternatives using a Raspberry Pi—and new privacy-focused software and browser tools. There’s also consumer interest in paid privacy products (a Proton VPN deal), alongside debate about whether online age checks meaningfully improve privacy.

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Key Takeaway Privacy discussions right now center on building or using privacy tools—while questioning whether some compliance steps like online age checks actually add privacy risk.
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Privacy discussions right now center on building or using privacy tools—while questioning whether some compliance steps like online age checks actually add privacy risk.

Privacy coverage is split between practical solutions—like privacy-preserving Ring-camera alternatives using a Raspberry Pi—and new privacy-focused software and browser tools. There’s also consumer interest in paid privacy products (a Proton VPN deal), alongside debate about whether online age checks meaningfully improve privacy.

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Save 30% on a 12-month Proton Unlimited VPN sub to secure an all-in-one privacy suite for under $110 — big price drop on service that includes a no-logs VPN with servers in 145 countries, 500GB of cloud storage, encrypted mail, password manager, and more

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Age checks claim Online age checks are described as creating a “pointless privacy risk”

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Urgent calls for privacy regulation threaten to spoil the smartglasses party

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Tracking: Save 30% on a 12-month Proton Unlimited VPN sub to secure an all-in-one privacy suite for under $110 — big price drop on service that includes a no-logs VPN with servers in 145 countries, 500GB of cloud storage, encrypted mail, password manager, and more

Save 30% on a 12-month Proton Unlimited VPN sub to secure an all-in-one privacy suite for under $110 — big price drop on service that includes a no-logs VPN with servers in 145 countries, 500GB of cloud storage, encrypted mail, password manager, and more
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r/privacy · u/SignificantLegs · 

Incoming Chief of UK Speech Regulator Takes Aim at VPNs

Incoming Chief of UK Speech Regulator Takes Aim at VPNs
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Online Age Checks Create a Pointless Privacy Risk

Online Age Checks Create a Pointless Privacy Risk
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Ken Paxton the adulterer is suing discord to force age verification on discord under the scope act despite it being blocked in federal courts.

Paxton is suing to force age verification to make the scope act a reality despite being enjoined by a federal court https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/news/releases/attorney-general-ken-paxton-files-landmark-lawsuit-ag…
r/privacy · u/No-Tower-8741 · 

Governments are ruining the internet to protect kids but there is a much better way

As strict child safety laws and age gates threaten web privacy, forcing ISPs to ship routers with default family DNS filters offers a leaner solution.
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Disney sued over facial recognition at parks

Disney sued over facial recognition at parks

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Does a privacy-first search ecosystem really need Google’s data?

Google is the biggest and, arguably, the best out there. According to Lead Public Policy Manager at DuckDuckGo (a rival search engine), Aurélien Mähl, that's because of the company's scale — a market share of over 90%. "We are building our own index step by step, and we face a huge barrier in catching up, given Google's scale,” he told TechRadar. “It’s something that is simply not feasible given how the market is constructed, and intervention is necessary." Mähl argues that liberating Google’s search data would not only generate market growth but also improve accuracy for rare queries, given t

‘Google is not collaborative and not in the spirit of complying with this regulation’ – can the EU Commission strong-arm Google into levelling the playing field of the search engine market, and is this really in the interest of your privacy?
Could Apple Pull iCloud Services From the UK Market?

Given today's bombshell report revealing the UK government's unprecedented demand for backdoor access to encrypted iCloud data, it's clear that Apple now faces a massive challenge. How it responds could have major implications for not only the company's privacy stance, but also its global operations as well as its reputation. According to The Washington Post, the British government has...

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