The UK just confirmed it's doubling down on the under-16 social media ban, and VPN restrictions might be next. Meanwhile, 60% of Americans say they support social media bans for minors, and almost none of them have been told what age verification actually costs: uploading your ID to reach the same platforms that never changed. In this video I break down the UK's VPN restriction proposal, why age verification and online age gates always expand beyond kids, what Australia's under-16 ban actually accomplished, and why banning users instead of fixing exploitative platform design protects nobody.

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⏱️ TIMESTAMPS
00:00 THE FIGHT CONTINUES
00:30 THE UK TEASING VPN RESTRICTIONS
03:30 MAJORITY OF US ADULTS SUPPORT THESE BANS
06:32 THE REAL (IGNORED) ISSUES THAT NEED SOLVING
#VPNBan #uk #usa
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V5ScjMGfIUU

Your password manager is the most sensitive piece of software in your tech stack. It holds everything - your email, banking, work credentials, health records, crypto, and more. Here's how 12 of the most popular ones actually stack up.

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Apple is quietly downgrading Hide My Email...moving generated aliases to a new subdomain that makes it easy for apps and websites to detect and block anyone using a private email address. I also get into Google preparing to use your IP address for ad tracking across the EEA, UK, and Switzerland, Chrome moving to fully kill the last uBlock Origin workarounds, and a lot more!

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⏱️ TIMESTAMPS
00:00 WELCOME TO SURVEILLANCE REPORT
00:36 APPLE WEAKENING HIDE MY EMAIL
06:26 CHROME FORMALLY ENDING MV2
09:12 OUR SPONSOR: EASYOPTOUTS!
10:32 UK & CANADA SURVEILLANCE
15:44 MALWARE IN THE AUR
18:34 DEFENSE BULLETIN: DATA BREACHES
21:40 DEFENSE BULLETIN: THREATS
24:36 DEFENSE BULLETIN: FOSS+
#apple #google #privacy
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4sJJtd1LgL8

After years of recommending Apple Maps as a more private Google Maps alternative, that recommendation just got more complicated, because Apple Maps is getting ads. Here are three alternatives worth knowing about.

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00:46 APPLE MAPS ALTERNATIVES
05:14 WHAT SHOULD YOU DO?
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e1DNDGDYhgI

End-to-end encrypted file sharing may sound simple, but for Cryptee, it took five years to ship. In this interview, Henry sits down with John Ozbay, founder and CEO of Cryptee, to talk through why: preventing CSAM, why client-side scanning doesn't work, how Cryptee's solution was designed to raise the barrier to mass spread without compromising encryption, and the broader philosophical question of where developer liability ends and moral responsibility begins.

Please engage in the comments with extra care; this is a sensitive topic, and some viewers may have personal experience with the issues discussed.

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⏱️ TIMESTAMPS
00:00:00 INTRO
00:04:08 E2EE SHARING HESITATIONS
00:14:09 HOW IS BIG TECH HANDLING THIS?
00:16:24 LOCAL SCANNING
00:19:27 HOW ARE CHAT APPS HANDLING THIS?
00:21:24 E2EE BACKUPS
00:22:40 HOW MUCH IS THIS CONSIDERED?
00:25:38 CRYPTEE'S SOLUTION
00:42:09 THREAT MODELING
00:48:18 MEGA'S APPROACH
00:53:16 LIABILITY VS. RESPONSIBILITY
01:01:40 HOW TO ENGAGE PRODUCTIVELY
01:09:48 CHAT CONTROL & ULTERIOR MOTIVES
01:21:34 IS CHAT CONTROL DEAD?
01:25:33 HOW JOHN GOT INVOLVED
01:34:44 CHANGING OVER TIME + RIGHT TO REPAIR + LINUX
01:41:32 CLOSING THOUGHTS

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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vUtmniEBdWo

App tracking is mostly invisible, but now there's a free & open source iOS app that changes that. Loupe shows you what any app on your iPhone can quietly collect without asking for a single permission. This video walks through what it reveals, why it matters, and what you can do about it.

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00:17 WHAT IS IT?
00:38 PASSIVE COLLECTION
02:23 PERMISSION GRANTED
05:23 WHAT CAN YOU DO?
10:24 WHAT ABOUT ANDROID?
11:02 ACTION STEPS & SUMMARY

#iphoneprivacy #apptracking #loupe
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_n_SpEWtqog

Your VPN sees every site you visit, every app you use, and every search you make. Choosing the wrong one means trading your ISP's surveillance for something potentially worse. Here's our 3rd tier list of 2026!

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Meta quietly embedded unreleased facial-recognition code, internally called "nametag" onto more than 50 million phones through its Meta AI app, then deleted it the day after Wired exposed it. This week I also get into Microsoft repos weaponized a second time to push credential-stealing malware to AI users, the UK's ultimatum to scan every device (and Signal's response), the FCC's push to kill burner phones...plus the usual breaches, threats, and a stacked week of FOSS+ updates.

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⏱️ TIMESTAMPS
00:00 WELCOME TO SURVEILLANCE REPORT
01:00 META ADDING SNEAKY FACIAL RECOGNITION
05:42 MICROSOFT HACKED TO PUSH MALWARE
08:38 THE UK'S SURVEILLANCE ULTIMATUM
11:40 OUR SPONSOR: DAWARICH!
13:20 GOOD & BAD NEWS IN US STATES
16:42 FCC BANNING PRIVATE NUMBERS
20:00 DEFENSE BULLETIN: DATA BREACHES
24:15 DEFENSE BULLETIN: THREATS
28:54 DEFENSE BULLETIN: FOSS+
#meta #privacy #security
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=53QtgdpIo20

Attackers were taking over Instagram accounts by matching a target's region with a VPN, starting a password reset, and simply asking Meta's AI support chatbot to change the account's email...that was the entire attack. It ran in the wild since at least February, compromising thousands of accounts before high-profile victims (a Barack Obama White House account, the Space Force Chief Master Sergeant) made it impossible to ignore.

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Bus Patrol installed AI cameras in tens of thousands of US school buses to catch drivers passing stopped buses, and now those cameras are being turned into automatic license plate readers that log every vehicle they drive past and feed the data to law enforcement. Leaked internal documents show the company knew the plan was controversial (including ICE concerns) but bet that the "protect the children" framing would keep people from pushing back.

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