Armed ICE agents trapped US citizens in a restaurant and demanded their papers. Federal agents walked into East African restaurants in Cedar-Riverside, MN. They closed and blocked the doors. Then they demanded to see everyone’s papers. Every person present was a US citizen.

80% of major U.S. retailers track every single marketing email. Read our Inbox Overload and HIdden Tracker report to find out who were the worst offenders. https://proton.me/blog/spam-watch-2025

TechCrunch found Petco's veterinary clinics were spilling customers' personal information and medical histories of their pets.

This is actually quite brilliant, up to and including the final sentence 🔥

Everything you do online is tracked, saved, and shared for what feels like a lifetime. But there are some steps you can take to minimize what data is out there. ssd.eff.org/module/how-...

I wanted to share probably the most important sermon I’ve given and it’s while I’m being arrested. It’s torture pure and simple what happens at #Broadview. I’m ok, though I was thrown to the ground and choked with my pectoral cross. A review of the video shows I was peaceful - did I deserve this?

Google has now admitted that they will tap into users' personal data within Gmail and Drive in order for their upcoming AI search to "be more helpful". For years, Google has advertised their services as "encrypted" and "secure", which begs the question: are they really? 1/5 🧵

"The questions people ask chatbots can reveal exceptionally sensitive information" about things like their health, finances, and relationships, EFF’s Lena Cohen told @pcmag.com. “People deserve meaningful control over who can access these AI prompts.”

ChatGPT gates “confidentiality” behind expensive enterprise plans, and yet still has access to your business data, which can be given to authorities if requested. Introducing our Business plan for Lumo, where everything is encrypted by default, and not even Proton can see chats.

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Anyway, yet another reminder that "debate me bros" were always full of shit, and anyone who claims that they were actually about free speech or real discussion over ideas is lying or gullible. www.techdirt.com/2025/09/17/t...

Lumo has been recognized in TIME's 2025 Best Inventions special mentions as a private AI assistant. Unlike Big Tech chatbots, Lumo's approach prioritizes user privacy and data security. For more details, visit the official TIME article: time.com/collections/...

ICE violently detain father & son walking to school—teenage boy had to be rushed to hospital. "I was just going to school," kid cries out. "I'm underage!" The 16-year-old star athlete is a U.S. citizen—agents sent him to the hospital with severe injuries to his back & neck. Houston, Texas.

🚨⏳One week left to prevent Microsoft from using your LinkedIn data to train AI. Act now 👉🏼 You have until November 3, 2025. #LinkedInAI #MicrosoftAI #BigTech

Honestly at some point you have to start doing psyops with these people: Have Obama announce that he will seek a third term tomorrow. Then watch all the con law “scholars” and Fix News MELT DOWN trying to explain why he can’t but Trump can. (It’s like Newsom taking over his social media persona)

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Karoline Leavitt should resign. They try to make us hate each other to distract from the fact that they're robbing us all blind. It's sick.

Your location reveals a lot about you, including where you live, work, volunteer, and hang out. Don’t let ad companies hoover up all that information. #OptOutOctober www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Happy Amazon Prime Day! Amazon collects mountains of data about how you use the service, but there is a setting you can change to make it harder for the company to use that data to sell you more things. #OptOutOctober www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Body-camera video appears to contradict the government’s claim that Marimar Martinez, 30, drove toward officers before one of them opened fire at her late Saturday morning in Brighton Park, her attorney claimed. trib.al/9Sxu9IN

The U.S. Army wants YOU to join the fight against America's cities (fatties can stay home)

“Terrible things are happening outside. Poor helpless people are being dragged out of their homes. Families are torn apart. Men, women, and children are separated. Children come home from school to find that their parents have disappeared.” Diary of Anne Frank January 13, 1943

Every single one of these clips was taken today in downtown Portland. Portland doesn’t want or need a federal takeover. If Trump insists on sending federal “resources” he can start with funding health care, bridges, affordable housing, and wildfire protection to name a few.

Troops. In an American city. Using full force. Your now-regular reminder that Republican members of Congress are letting this happen.

Just came back from a trip abroad. Used @asklumo.proton.me before and numerous times during the trip to get ideas of things to see or do, historical background, etc. Very impressed. Was truly a travel assistant along our journey.

Time for New York law enforcement authorities to step in to address assaults like this.

Authoritarians thrive on your silence — be loud — for America.

This FreeVPN Chrome Extension was taking screenshots of every website users visited, and had over 100k downloads. What did Google do? Gave them a verified badge. The moral of the story is that Big Tech cannot be trusted to curate these things - do the research before downloading.

The President of the United States is threatening to go to war with an American city. This is not a joke. This is not normal. Donald Trump isn't a strongman, he's a scared man. Illinois won’t be intimidated by a wannabe dictator.

🚨 Change your Gmail password NOW #Google warns its 2.5 billion users to reset passwords and ramp up security, after #Salesforce breach exposed business contact info. Gmail wasn’t breached, but phishing and vishing have spiked. Enable 2FA or passkeys ASAP. #ransomNews #GmailSecurity #PhishingRisk

This part. Everyone should be taking notes from @ivehaditpodcast.bsky.social’s @mizzwelch.bsky.social

Didn't take long to get to this...

Last term - just a year ago! - a lot of my Republican colleagues were making a lot of noise about the pernicious influence of foreign "state owned enterprises". And here we are now.

Trump’s militarization of Los Angeles seems to have been just the start of an authoritarian takeover of American cities. This is not leadership. This is a scary, unlawful grab for power, and we should all be deeply concerned.

New in PN: Then they came for John Bolton "It’s tempting to embrace fascist attacks on people you dislike or see as enemies, but if you let fascists build power, they’ll eventually get around to using it to come after someone you care about."

Masked, un-uniformed, unidentified secret police ambushes. What could go wrong?

Yes, VPNs can help you get around certain types of geographic restrictions, but it’s very important you do your due diligence before downloading one. ssd.eff.org/module/choo...

They want us fighting so we never notice who is stealing from us all. Don’t get lost in the circus.

Donald Trump says he is going to deploy the National Guard to Chicago. This is what weak men do to pretend they’re strong. Stay safe, stand with your community, and most importantly, know your rights:

From "highly CONFLICTED" to "Highly Respected" in just weeks — and all it took was for him to give away 10% of his company

Coverage dismissing the fact that National Guard are “just patrolling safe tourist areas” is missing the point. The very nature of a presence patrol — I did hundreds of these in Iraq — is to project strength. That’s to embolden your allies. And to threaten your enemies.

This is step one in how we lose free and fair elections. It’s not that Trump will “cancel” the midterms. It’s just everyone has to vote in person, and urban downtowns will be filled with ICE checkpoints and intimidating National Guard troops to “double check” that only citizens vote.

New— Nazis with giant swastika flags marched in downtown Indianapolis on Saturday with two police escorts. They shouted “white power” and said to the woman who took this video (reshared here with her permission) “fuck you, n***** bitch.” Police did not intervene. I cannot find local news coverage.

Historian suggests fighting a wildfire with a back burn.

"I think on some level, conservatives know perfectly well that liberal American cities are quite safe. That’s why they have to work themselves into such paroxysms of hysterical cowardice—to give themselves permission to inflict violence on the Americans they hate." prospect.org/justice/2025...

“Small children from poor or middle-class families who watch ‘Sesame Street’ do better on cognitive tests and in first grade than children who do not watch it,” Renata Adler wrote, in 1972.

there’s a popular digital guide written and used by police that recommends sharing links with URL tracking elements to capture people’s IPs. Linkumori is a browser extension that purifies URLs before trackers can log you.

Browser extensions and tools: • ClearURLs (browser extension) - automatically removes tracking parameters • Link Cleaner extensions for Chrome/Firefox • Many privacy-focused browsers like Firefox have built-in tracking parameter removal