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Land of the Free

The United States of America was established in in the year 1776, exactly 250 years ago. The USA was created because the British took away their freedom by attempting to disarm them. The colonists fought for their rights to become independent from the growing British power. Today, we're

Telegram Prize Pool

Telegram, an application known for its privacy-focused messaging, is taking a stance on the current state of the world. They are allocating $200,000 to a contest to make short form or long form content on the topics Pavel Durov, the founder and CEO of Telegram FZ-LLC, talked

Head-Flock

Hey, all! I'm sorry there hasn't been a post in the past few days. I've been relatively busy and didn't have much news to talk on recently. To give you all a little treat, I've made a short form video

Down Goes Another

Adding onto the dog pile, the United Kingdom has just announced today that they will be banning all social media platforms for those who are under 16 years of age. This comes after many other countries, such as Australia and France, came up with that same idea. There are problems

Warrantless Surveillance

Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) has recently expired, as a House vote failed on Thursday. After Donald Trump appointed a rather controversial person, Bill Pulte, to be the director of National Intelligence, Democrats refused to let Section 702 continue without a significant reform. What is Section

What Actually is Privacy in the Digital Age?

In the Digital Age, there are many different ways of being exposed to data brokers. Some of these ways include social media, streaming applications, and ALPRs. But what can we actually do about these things? Some social media platforms people find irresistible. It takes so much more effort to go

We Need Some (More) Good News

I recently talked about some good news already, but all of these terrible things happening in the world around us really takes a toll on me. I want something happy to write about. I want wins for us privacy-conscious people. If you want to inform me about good things

Know Your Customer

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) put out a document on April 30th, 2026 that recently gained traction due to 404 Media's recent post on the matter. The document puts out a potential method of ridding the world of scam calls; they want all of your personally identifiable information

Eye Level

Meta, the company that holds Facebook, came out with the first mainstream "smart glasses" with the launch of their Wayfarer model of Ray-Ban Stories glasses released back in 2021. For the concerning low price of $224, you can get your hands on the Meta AI Glasses, renamed

Wake Word

"Ok, Google, what's the weather?" "Alexa, when is my order arriving?" "Hey Siri, open the DoorDash app." These are all words commonly said in the home. Google and Amazon are large competitors when it comes to home voice assistants. Google has the