Surveillance Report: Weekly News For Digital Freedom
Surveillance Report: Weekly News For Digital Freedom
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Apple Quietly Downgrades Hide My Email, Plus Chrome Kills uBlock Origin & Google's IP Tracking
27 minutes Posted Jun 24, 2026 at 4:35 pm.
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WELCOME TO SURVEILLANCE REPORT
APPLE WEAKENING HIDE MY EMAIL
CHROME FORMALLY ENDING MV2
OUR SPONSOR: EASYOPTOUTS!
UK & CANADA SURVEILLANCE
MALWARE IN THE AUR
DEFENSE BULLETIN: DATA BREACHES
DEFENSE BULLETIN: THREATS
DEFENSE BULLETIN: FOSS+
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Apple is moving Hide My Email aliases to a new private.icloud.com subdomain, which makes it trivial for any app or website to spot a private email and block the signup. 🔎 EasyOptOuts is the easy, affordable, and effective way to automatically remove your data from people search sites: https://easyoptouts.comThanks to the EasyOptOuts team for sponsoring Surveillance Report!In This Episode:Google preparing to use IP addresses for ad measurement across the EEA, UK & Switzerland (Aug 3)Chrome moving to fully block MV2, the last uBlock Origin workarounds are going awayNew surveillance laws in Canada + a UK push to ban social media for under-16s (with the age-verification nightmare that follows)The Arch Linux AUR malware saga...1,500+ packages, two wavesFull Defense Bulletin: Texas (3M IDs), LastPass, FIFA's wide-open World Cup portal, and a stack of FOSS updates🧡 SUPPORT TECHLOREBecome a Techlorian and keep this show growing:
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🔗 SOURCES & LINKSView all sources here: https://techlore.tech/apple-quietly-downgrades-hide-my-email-plus-chrome-kills-ublock-origin-googles-ip-tracking/⏱️ TIMESTAMPS(
00:00) - WELCOME TO SURVEILLANCE REPORT
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00:36) - APPLE WEAKENING HIDE MY EMAIL
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06:26) - CHROME FORMALLY ENDING MV2
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09:12) - OUR SPONSOR: EASYOPTOUTS!
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10:32) - UK & CANADA SURVEILLANCE
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15:44) - MALWARE IN THE AUR
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18:34) - DEFENSE BULLETIN: DATA BREACHES
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21:40) - DEFENSE BULLETIN: THREATS
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24:36) - DEFENSE BULLETIN: FOSS+
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