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• Post #4024506

  Today I have reached out to a number of MEPs who have a pro-fundamental rights voting history but for some reason did not vote in yesterday's urgency procedure vote. I will be publishing a massive expose on the 400+ MEPs that allowed the urgency vote to prevail yesterday including voting history and who they had meetings with - I have asked those handful that usually are pro-rights to explain why they didn't vote yesterday so I can determine if they should be in the expose. #Ch...

• Post #4024505

  The 415 - the MEPs who let Chat Control through, and the lobbyists in their diaries Yesterday 331 MEPs voted to bring Chat Control back under an urgency procedure the President should never have allowed. Here is every one of the 415 who did not oppose it, with their voting records and every lobbyist they have met. https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chat-control-the-415-who-failed-you #csam #chatcontrol #eprivacy #charter #eu #surveillance #lobbying #law

• Post #4024504

  Well that was insane - had a tough week so decided to do some fun stuff this weekend and setup the Xbox Series X over remote play on the Apple Vision Pro… Playing Killer Instinct on a giant IMAX scale screen in the middle of a frozen tundra is like puppeteering giants… so much fun. Forza Horizon almost had me tossing my cookies… This was after hooking up the Mac Studio yesterday and playing No Man’s Sky at 8k ultrawide curved wrap around display via Mac Virtual Display on the Vision Pro…

• Post #4024503

  Psychology An extract from It's Personal. The Hawthorne Effect, the Chinese social credit system, and why observing everyone does not protect the children it claims to protect. https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/the-psychology-of-surveillance #surveillance #chatcontrol #csam #psychology #HumanRights #FreedomOfThought #china #privacy #psychographics #identity

• Post #4024502

  Call out to all ADHD'ers out there - how do you handle grief? I lost a close family member last week and I don't understand how to process it - I am very emotional generally and this just cripples me, I dont know how to process it.

• Post #3855653

  Chat Control in 9000 Words A picture is worth a thousand words. This one is worth nine thousand. A wordless nine-panel story of what mass surveillance does to the children it claims to protect. https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chat-control-in-9000-words #chatcontrol #surveillance #privacy #encryption #ChildProtection

• Post #3651065

  So I have the full list of those who Voted for Chat Control today including those who decided it wasn't worth turning up for and those who abstained. It was passed by a majority of 27 yet we had almost 100 MEPs either not turn up or abstain - they are not innocent. I will be launching a paper with their voting history and who lobbied them in the near future. They must not be permitted to remain as MEPs and need to be defeated in the next elections. Abstention/DNV is worse than cowardice.

• Post #3647126

  #ChatControl vote in: Total votes: 646 In favour: 331 Against: 304 Abstention: 11 We need to make sure those who voted for it are not MEPs after the next election. They need to understand that their actions have consequences. #CSAM #Privacy

• Post #3643625

  Yesterday I sent 836 emails to MEPs, Perm Reps, Ministers and their staff/advisors pleading with them to block the #ChatControl urgency vote. I am a #CSA survivor - it destroyed my entire family and left me estranged for the last 40 years. #CSAM is a really bad problem, but removing the #privacy of every single person in the #EU is not going to fix it: https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/csa-survivor-plea-to-eu-parliament/

• Post #3633451

  CSA Survivor Pleads with EU Officials to block Chat Control vote A child abuse survivor urges MEPs to reject Chat Control — mass scanning won't protect children, and it breaks the encryption survivors need to safely report abuse. https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/csa-survivor-plea-to-eu-parliament #csam #charter #eprivacy #eu #law

• Post #3599119

  Strike III for EU-US data transfers The US Supreme Court has just ruled the FTC isn't independent of the President - and our entire data deal with America was built on the promise that it was. https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/strike-iii-for-eu-us-data-transfers #gdpr #adequacy #ftc #schrems #law #surveillance #dataprivacyframework #dpf #scotus #adequacy #compliance

• Post #3597435

  The MEP investigating spyware was keeping his whole life on the phone that got hacked Pegasus infected the phone of an MEP who sat on the committee investigating it - a real assault on democracy. It also came out that he kept fifteen years of everything on that one phone and missed three warnings from Apple - and that's a failure we have to talk about too. https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/mep-spyware-committee-phone-security #surveillance #spyware #pegasus #cybersecurity #eu #pega #edp...

• Post #3593426

  The United Nations runs Google's ad-tech on its own website, without consent, while telling the rest of us to account for AI's footprint The UN demands AI accountability while running Google ad-tech, analytics and tracking on its own website - with no consent and a measurable, avoidable carbon cost. https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/un-tracking-without-consent #privacy #gdpr #eprivacy #environment #tracking #un #esg #HumanRights #hypocrisy #adtech #ai

• Post #3589853

  Malta is in breach of the EU Treaties — the IDPC has confirmed in writing that no Maltese citizen is protected under the ePrivacy Directive against any tech company not established in Malta On 27 April 2026 I lodged a formal complaint with Malta's Information and Data Protection Commissioner against Anthropic. The IDPC has now confirmed in writing that no Maltese citizen has any protection under… https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/malta-eprivacy-treaty-breach #eprivacy #gdpr #charter #m...

• Post #3586456

  Google quietly removes the on-device AI privacy assurance from Chrome's Settings UI Google has quietly removed the privacy assurance from Chrome's on-device AI Settings UI. The sentence promising that the model runs locally without sending data to Google's servers has been deleted, and the toggle moved out of the System block to reduce the chance the change is noticed. There are three plausible reasons for tha… https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/google-quietly-removes-on-device-...

• Post #3579925

  Anthropic secretly installs spyware when you install Claude Desktop Anthropic's Claude Desktop silently installs a Native Messaging bridge into seven Chromium browsers, including browsers Anthropic's own documentation says it does not support, and browsers the user has not even installed. https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/anthropic-spyware #ai #privacy #eprivacy #compliance #infosec #gdpr #law #cyber #security #anthropic #claude

• Post #3579087

  The Beast behind the Browser: Every Privacy Vulnerability in Chrome and How to Catch It A forensic reference to every client-side privacy vulnerability in Google Chrome — fingerprinting, storage tracking, header leaks — and how to detect each. https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/the-beast-behind-the-browser #SurveillanceCapitalism #adtech #martech #cookies #privacy #eprivacy #law #forensics

• Post #3577600

  Data Sovereignty in light of US uncertainty EU and businesses are abandoning US tech giants for open source and self-hosted alternatives. Why data sovereignty matters now more than ever. https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/data-sovereignty-in-light-of-us-uncertainty #DataSovereignty #technology #SelfHosted #foss #gdpr #compliance #privacy #SurveillanceCapitalism #infosec #cyber #security

• Post #3576266

  Digital Psychology: Why Privacy is so important for Self Determination Psychographic profiling and surveillance capitalism erode our autonomy. Why privacy is fundamental to self-determination, free thought, and democracy. https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/why-privacy-is-so-important-for-self-determination #privacy #SurveillanceCapitalism #psychology #manipulation #psychographics

• Post #2675095

  Just spent Valentine's Day driving up and down the autobahn for 5 hours in a Porsche Taycan (after Sixt upgraded me from a VW Tiguan...). Wife loved it - the car is an absolute beast.

• Post #2675094

  #Beta Signups now available for my #iOS #privacy #news #app https://www.linkedin.com/posts/alexanderhanff_privacy-news-beta-signup-activity-7355976018815254528-LOXw/

• Post #2675093

  Wow so in the last week, I have written my first #Ai #Agent in #python with a full suite of custom built MCP servers/tools and a built in #Mattermost client so I can interact with it in my Mattermost server. The entire Agent is running on self hosted models. But that wasn't enough - I wanted to see if I could find a way to access the agent in my @Apple #visionpro I have never written a Swift app before but I figured - why not.