Great recent video from Rossman, titled "If you don't want to be recorded... now you know how we feel..."

What are your thoughts on it?

For people in countries where they are starting to use photos for age verification, what happens when none of your computers have cameras?

My country is likely to do the same and I need to know how to do it

UC San Diego Professor Aaron Schulman and team discovered a universal vulnerability installed in more than 2,000,000 cars across the US. Cars can be unlocked and disabled by anyone within Bluetooth range who uses the exploit.

The KARR alarm system (parent company Acrisure Protection Group) is installed in a majority of cars sold at southern California dealerships.

Unpatched KARR systems broadcast a static Bluetooth address (even when "disabled"), suitable for tracking individuals.

https://today.ucsd.edu/story/2-million-cars-with-anti-theft-systems-installed-by-dealers-are-at-higher-risk-of-theft

Delete Request and Opt-out Platform (DROP) - privacy.ca.gov

Free data removal platform for individuals who live in California!

Most "I de-Googled" posts show the wins. I'm more interested in the honest version: the swaps that survived contact with daily life vs the ones you rolled back because they were too painful, broke something, or nobody around you would cooperate.

For me the ones that stuck:

• Search Google -> DuckDuckGo, never looked back
• Mail Gmail -> Tuta on a custom domain
• Browser Chrome -> hardened Zen + Mullvad Browser
• VPN -> Mullvad, self-hosted on my own gateway
• Passwords / 2FA -> Bitwarden, YubiKeys + Ente Auth
• OS Windows -> Arch

And the honest friction: Chat is where privacy meets other people's willingness. Signal works for some of my circle, but family flatly would not leave iMessage, so I stopped fighting it. That compromise taught me more than any tool did.

So what stuck for you and what didn't? Especially interested in the swaps you abandoned, and whether the reason was the tool or the people around you. I think the failures are more useful to talk about than the wins.

Anyone else put tape on the back of their dls to stop merchants from scanning them?

Is there a definitive guide for the best frictionless travel fone setup? Eg what accounts, apps, content, data, pics videos, how many days worth

So that when crossing borders even if agents inspect it or plug it in to their cellebrite grayshift terminals and even do a data dump nothing to see and appears boring, mundane, plausible, frictionless and you safe guarded your privacy enough too.

Sure you can hand over a blank fresh wipe or graphene os distress wipe or refuse but you'll then just get red flagged and pulled in for even more invasion and your other electronics examined too. You might get your devices seized too anyway and denied entry plus black listed unless a citizen. It's just smarter and better to be prepared in advance for a frictionless boring experience instead.

Proton declined my prepaid card.

So, I am doing renovations at home. My wife and I really want to buy a dumb TV for our PS5Pro, or to play films from laptop. I was shocked that there is actually no dumb TV with adequate capabilities. Even better, there is no dumb TV in my country at all. So, I guess the only way is to buy some smart TV and lobotomize it. We selected the Samsung QE55S95H as our primary target. Any advice and caveats regarding it? Are there any tricks besides the standard "disable ACR and block it in the firewall, add PiHole"? My guts (as a Software Engineer) says that is much more to this(

I want to print family foto albums (layout options). I have a printer at home but do not like the quality of the photo's. There are sensitive pictures of the children. I'm also worried about quality control witnessing our pictures. Only one corrupt person in the system can do the harm.

Preferably in Belgium, EU is fine.

To cover digital privacy remarks: our pictures are on Icloud but I'm gradually transferring them to a family member their Nextcloud. We only share pictures via Signal.

I am trying to audit a website and figure what kind of cookie, pixel, etc. data the website is collecting. For example, some of the cookies and pixels may collect IP address, device ID, etc., but I want to see if the website collects precise geolocation specifically.

Are there any tools that I can check this seamlessly?

I've used cookieinspector.com but this does not give me a data element in details.

Thank you in advance.

In 2018, Snowden warned that Aadhaar was creating a "systemisation of society" by linking disparate databases into one massive centralized identity point. Now in 2026, with the massive adoption of UPI, DigiLocker, and mandatory telecom linking, our digital footprints are completely centralized.

From a technical and architectural standpoint, are there actual firewalls preventing the government from cross-referencing this data to build 360-degree profiles of citizens? The UIDAI claims they don't track transactions, and they promote features like Masked Aadhaar for security, but does that actually prevent state surveillance, or is it just a band-aid for potential corporate data breaches?

If global intelligence agencies can secretly bypass encrypted networks like Tor and launch widespread 'Computer Network Exploitation' (CNE) on Indian servers, how can any government firewall genuinely keep our centralized Aadhaar data safe?

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