MUST READ Beginner's guide to Privacy http://defi0xjeff.substack.com/p/beginners-guide-to-privacy

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🔑 Implement two-factor authentication or passkeys on all your important accounts. Use authenticator apps (like Aegis or 2FAS) or passkeys instead of SMS. SMS-based 2FA can be intercepted more easily; passkeys and TOTP apps offer superior protection. It's not foolproof, but it significantly improves the security of your accounts, and the more protection, the better.

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An interesting thread on surveillance AI software, open sourced! https://x.com/i/status/2078521434264265158 https://github.com/ShinMegamiBoson/OpenPlanter

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🔑 KeePassXC: A secure, local password manager KeePassXC is an open-source password manager that works completely offline. It stores your credentials in an encrypted database on your device and does not send anything to external servers. There are versions available for computers (KeePassXC) and for Android (KeePassDX). You can transfer the database using a USB storage device, your own cloud storage, or in any other way you deem appropriate if needed. It is superior to other alternatives you may find, such as "KeePass," by implementing improvements and integrating certain functionalities.

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"I’m done with Mullvad" https://moonwriting.blog/i-m-done-with-mullvad

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This shouldn't be a surprise that cops are misusing Flock to stalk people, after all cops are known to commit domestic violence at a much higher rate than normal people. https://x.com/i/status/2078539916565258276

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🌦 Disable your cloud backups if you don't know how they are managed. Many encrypted messaging apps allow you to save backups. However, even if the messaging app is encrypted, the backup itself may not be, making it an attractive target for attackers. A common example of this is with WhatsApp, where backups are enabled by default without users realizing it. If you create any backups, remember to ensure that they are as secure as the main app/system/device and, of course, enable encryption for the backup.

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💬 Signal: The messaging app that truly protects your conversations. Yes, I know you're going to say: "But there's a better app..." You already know that Signal has good privacy, but it also has: · More users · More history · More support · More reviews · More ease of use than other messaging apps that have only been around for a couple of days... It only requires a phone number, which doesn't even have to identify you, making it easy to use for both advanced and less experienced users. It could be better, but it's a huge step towards protecting yourself in a simple way, and it's something that anyone can use. It uses robust encryption and only collects your phone number and connection time. Want to improve it even further? Use "Molly." It's a fork that reduces reliance on large tech companies in certain processes and uses alternative notification systems like UnifiedPush. It's the messaging app I recommend above all others, but it's not the only one. We'll talk about others. App of the day.

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https://www.atlasofsurveillance.org/

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Flock CEO Apologizes For Calling Activists ‘Terrorists’. As a movement against $8.3 billion Flock Safety’s license plate readers gathers momentum, company CEO Garrett Langley tells Forbes he shouldn’t have called non-violent activists “terroristic” organizations. https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2026/07/17/flock-ceo-sorry-for-labelling-activists-terrorists/

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@brave has isolated tabs now, or "containers" on desktop. "Containers are color coded tabs that isolate your browsing data, such as cookies, cache, and site storage into separate contexts." Go to settings/content/enable containers Love it.

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The New Private Asset Privacy tokens were delisted from exchanges 73 times in 2025, yet they became crypto's best-performing sector Their underlying zero-knowledge cryptography restores fungibility and financial privacy - features structurally missing from Bitcoin https://chamath.substack.com/p/privacy-tokens

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Few privacy updates from last week 👀 1. Age verification keeps spreading across the web. An independent security consultant showed how to by-pass the latest EU age-check using a Chrome extension. Anonymous age verification still doesn’t work. 2. Meta’s smart glasses can film without a camera indicator light. New York answered first with a statewide ban in every courthouse. 3. Anthropic’s Claude Code was quietly fingerprinting users (rolled back after exposure) and SpaceX' Grok secretly uploaded entire repos by default until researchers called it out. To end positively, Proton rejected all 47 VPN data requests it received in 2026. Zero handovers! Full monthly update end of July. Stay tuned..

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The privacy problems hidden in your period tracker https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20260715-how-period-trackers-share-womens-private-details

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Privacy Incidents – Real-world examples of why your photos need protection https://snapsafe.org/incidents.html

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