Sergey Shkundaleu @archit3ct@social.ssbx.dev

Legal requirements of age verification by platform in EU and some states in US will only lead to one thing instead of protecting children it will expose adults. Those services or platforms using them will eventually get breached. Here is an example of such failure, 70K of records exposed by Discord. https://discord.com/press-releases/update-on-security-incident-involving-third-party-customer-service

Surveillance is easy, it does not require any special equipment and for little bit of money you can do a lot. Here is article analyzing Le Monde's article that talks about tracking of daily movement of French police and military. What can you do about it? Start deleting advertisement ID, may not help much but it's a good first step. I wrote about that in my mini advent calendar for privacy improvement on punkprivacy.com. Here is article itself: https://proton.me/blog/ad-tech-privacy #punkprivacy

Came across Spam Watch 2025 report by Proton team. Key finding that there is no retailers that were good in respecting privacy and low volume of marketing fluff. Surprisingly there were global retailers respecting privacy and not using any trackers in their emails. Some retailers came close with no trackers and low volume, but then they probably had a team who used different system and once in a while they'll sent an email with lot's of trackers. Report: https://res.cloudinary.com/dbulfrlrz/images/v1765301399/wp-pme/proton-mail-spam-watch-2025--the-u-s--inbox-overload-hidden-tracker-report/proton-mail-spam-watch-2025--the-u-s--inbox-overload-hidden-tracker-report.pdf

Article stating that Meta earning a fortune from fraudulent ads. Ads has no real purpose other than to track you across the internet, those are small beacons of data that you take with you everywhere you go on the Internet. Solid reason to use ad-blockers, especially if particular platform does not care about protecting you from fraudsters and you are better off DIY.
Link: https://www.reuters.com/investigations/meta-is-earning-fortune-deluge-fraudulent-ads-documents-show-2025-11-06/

Total surveillance is here, ALPR can track all of your car movements and unfortunately technology being used for warrant-less surveillance. Check out this article.
Link:https://proton.me/blog/ai-license-plate-reader
#privacy

There are a lot of talks about abundance in the age of AI. But let's take a deeper look into a subject. Whole theory hinges on the idea that AI will create so much wealth that some form of universal basic income will be introduced in the future. However, if you think such measure would require wealth redistribution and for any non-human entity we call "corporation" profit is a sole purpose of it's existence. Prove me wrong!

@neurovagrant I've heard there is always tradeoff with anything, larger doses can disrupt circadian rhythm, but I am not an expert, just random guy posting comment on a question.