#animals #cat #caturday #mastocats #catsofmastodon #catcontent

Age verification is spreading like cancer.

First they came for adults site and social media; now they are already discussing about putting VPNs and app stores behind #AgeVerfication 🇬🇧🇦🇺

What’s sold as “online safety” means #surveillance via IDs checks or face scans.

Privacy & anonymity protect journalists, whistleblowers & activists.

We must fight against age verification - or the free web dies!

👉 More: https://tuta.com/blog/age-verification-kills-anonymity

@mcc haven’t you described perplexity.ai ?

More than 1,400 people have been killed after record rainfall and storm surges across Asia.

Meanwhile fossil fuel companies keep making RECORD PROFITS instead of paying for the climate damages they drive.

It is time to MAKE POLLUTERS PAY.

Together, we can create a future where communities around the world are safe, our infrastructure is resilient, and our emergency services are prepared.

Add your name: https://act-int.greenpeace.org/polluters-pay-pact

#floods #extremeweather #climatecrisis #makepolluterspay #livesbeforeprofits

RE: https://infosec.exchange/@mttaggart/115589763564210807

A lot of folks are taking this as an argument to ditch Firefox. It isn't—at least not now. Use the tool that works for you, until it doesn't. This is a warning that the AI nonsense won't stop and long-term viability is doubtful. Prepare accordingly.

Remember that time Mozilla said it was going to stop working with the personal data removal service Onerep after I published a story showing Onerep's CEO was actually running several people search sites at the same time?

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/03/mozilla-drops-onerep-after-ceo-admits-to-running-people-search-networks/

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2024/03/ceo-of-data-privacy-company-onerep-com-founded-dozens-of-people-search-firms/

Yeah, that was in mid-March 2024. In February I wrote about how it had been almost a year since Mozilla said it was going to kick Onerep to the curb and stop offering it as part of their Mozilla Monitor Plus service.

https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/02/nearly-a-year-later-mozilla-is-still-promoting-onerep/

Well today Mozilla announced that it is finally "winding down" its partnership with Onerep by winding down Monitor Plus.

"After careful consideration, we’ve made the decision to discontinue Monitor Plus, which offered data broker site scans and automated personal data removal."

"We will continue to offer our free Monitor, data breach service, which is integrated into Firefox’s credential manager, and we are focused on integrating more of our privacy and security experiences in Firefox, including our VPN, for free."

"We explored several options to keep Monitor Plus going, but our high standards for vendors, and the realities of the data broker ecosystem made it challenging to consistently deliver the level of value and reliability we expect for our users."

"Current subscribers will retain full access through the wind-down period."

I asked how long this wind-down period would extend, and they said it ends Dec. 17.

https://support.mozilla.org/en-US/kb/monitor-plus-shutting-down

The spread of speculation by the Prime Minister of #Poland that Russian agents with Ukrainian nationality are behind railway destruction aims to incite hatred against the Ukrainian minority (less than 3% of the population) in Poland and will provoke acts of #violence and insults against them.

Only a court can determine who is guilty of a crime, not the Prime Minister.

Such statements can be seen as a #populism without any fundamentals and have the goal to stigmatize them. #humanrights

What right does Merz have to dictate to migrants where to go and what to do, when their lives and free will do not belong to him?

I know from personal experience, among other things, that there are many migrants who exhibit inadequate behavior, but this is no reason to build a totalitarian society with calls for mass killings, forced #displacement, and artificially created economic #poverty for minorities.

#Totalitarianism #farright #Germany #politics #migration

The natural #law states that life is a fundamental right of human beings, and neither individuals nor others have the right to take it away, as they did not create it❗ So, who does Chancellor Merz think he is to decide who should die and who should live? Why should #Ukrainian youth be killed by shelling while German youth are not? What is the fundamental difference?

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Recent statements by Chancellor #Merz regarding the appearance of German cities and his opinion that it would be better for young 18-22-year-old men to return to Ukraine and die there from hunger or artillery fire rather than go to Germany, demonstrate that Germany is becoming a hub for the spread of #hate speech among #European political elites.
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Hi! Today is my first official day as the Executive Director of Mastodon, replacing @Gargron as CEO. I joined the Mastodon team more than 5 years ago, mostly working for Mastodon in the evenings on top of a 120% day job. I was the driving force behind the incorporation of the German non-profit, am a co-founder of the US 501c3 non-profit, and I have contributed to most of the fundraising success, which allowed us to expand the team.
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🤝75 years of the European Convention on Human Rights

A landmark treaty that reshaped Europe after the second World War, protecting millions of Europeans and supporting our shared values of human rights, democracy and rule of law.

Because human rights aren’t optional. They’re universal.

1/3 🚨 On 5 November, MEPs in the LIBE Committee of the European Parliament will vote on a new #Europol Regulation, part of the EU’s so-called “Facilitators Package.”

Behind the rhetoric of fighting “smuggling,” this reform expands Europol’s #MassSurveillance powers & threatens #FundamentalRights

Here’s how 👇🏾

@edri @Em0nM4stodon @privacyguides for your attention

#privacy

Find daily new #GDPR decisions from across Europe for free on GDPRhub.eu!➡️ Read and edit this decision from Sweden at https://gdprhub.eu/index.php?title=Kammarr%C3%A4tten_-_7125-24&mtm_campaign=hubasmma 📥Thousands of experts also signed up to our free newsletter already: https://newsletter.noyb.eu/pf/433/5gqtL #databescherming

ALT: New decision from Sweden: A court held that Tele2 violated Chapter V of the GDPR by failing to implement adequate safeguards when transferring personal data to the U.S. through the use of Google Analytics

“A developed country is not a place where the poor have cars. It’s where the rich use public transportation.”

“Mosquitoes found in Iceland for first time as climate crisis warms country | Insects | The Guardian”

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/oct/21/mosquitoes-found-iceland-first-time-climate-crisis-warms-country

Guardian covers the Icelandic mosquito news.