IsaacQ

Studying Game Design
Obsessed with Action RPG Games (especially Destiny, Genshin Impact, Honkai Impact 3rd, Honkai Star Rail, Zenless Zone Zero)

[Nym @nym]

Privacy is a right. Not a setting.

[Basil the Great @BasilTheGreat]

🚨 BREAKING: It has been revealed that the public consultation data Keir Starmer is using to promote his social media ban did NOT have an ‘against’ option

[kate bush’s husband @airbagg3d]

I would rather Destiny 2 die an dignified death and have its servers shut off immediately and all source code deleted than have Elon Musk get involved

[Nym @nym]

The Online Safety Act won't make you a good parent.

[Nym @nym]

Talking to Meta's private AI is like talking to the police.

Anything you say can and will be used against you.

[Nym @nym]

Age verification = leaked databases + censored websites

[Nym @nym]

In the last few weeks:
🛑Google flagged privacy phones as fraudulent
🇫🇷France criminally charged Elon
🇪🇺 Meta faces $12B fine for not knowing who you are
🇪🇺EU proposed behavior profiling ID for every login
🇬🇧 Palantir UK contract: your data kept 2 years after exit
🇬🇧UK passed facial recognition nationwide
🇬🇧PlayStation mandated face scans to talk to friends
🇩🇪 Germany pushing IP retention with no judicial review
🇷🇺 Russia confirmed the internet has an off switch

➡️Time to take your privacy seriously

[International Cyber Digest @IntCyberDigest]

🚨🇪🇺 The European Commission is about to steal your search history in one of the largest forced data grabs in the history of the open internet, and almost nobody is talking about it.

The scope is staggering:
🔴 Every query you type
🔴 Every voice and photo search
🔴 Every autocomplete you accept
🔴 Your language, your device
🔴 Your country pinned to a ~3km² grid
🔴 Every result you saw, every link you hovered
🔴 Every click and scroll
🔴 The full chronological order of your search sessions

Meaning the European Union now knows your:
🔴 Health symptoms
🔴 Pregnancy
🔴 Sexual orientation
🔴 Political views
🔴 Religious beliefs
🔴 Financial distress
🔴 Legal trouble
🔴 Addictions
🔴 Affairs

Under the proposed measures for DMA Article 6(11), Google would be ordered to ship the daily search behaviour of hundreds of millions of Europeans to multiple third parties through a daily API feed. Any approved "online search engine," AI chatbots included, would get five years of access.

The things people only ever type when they think no one is watching. All of it now scheduled to flow daily into an open-ended list of third parties scattered across the European Union.

Brussels promises "anonymisation." The reality is a thin technical veneer that has been broken in academic literature again and again for over a decade. Search behaviour is a fingerprint. Stripping a name does not change that.

Mass data leaks become inevitable. Every new beneficiary is a new attack surface, and every annual audit is a year of silent exposure between checks. The 2025 Discord vendor breach already showed how fast 70,000 government IDs can leak through a single weak link. Now imagine that link holding Europe's search history.

Surveillance without consent becomes the default. Hundreds of millions of EU citizens never agreed to have their queries packaged and shipped to companies they have never heard of. The legal fiction of "anonymisation" cannot manufacture consent that was never given.

Behavioural search data is a goldmine for phishing, blackmail, social engineering, and corporate espionage.

Foreign intelligence services get a back door without effort. They do not need to breach Google. They only need to compromise the weakest name on the beneficiary list. One insolvent startup. One compromised contractor. One approved entity quietly acquired by a hostile state.

In the name of "competition," the EU is about to manufacture a permanent, distributed, daily-refreshed copy of Europe's collective search history. A surveillance dataset Brussels itself would never approve if any other government tried to build it.

The public consultation closes Friday, May 1, 2026 at 23:59 CEST. The final binding decision lands July 27, 2026.

After that, the door does not close again.

Tag your MEPs! File a response! Make noise!

[Big Brother Watch @BigBrotherWatch]

🆔Should you hand over your ID, or your face, just to post online?

We asked the public this question and this is what they have to say - NO to digital ID checks⤵️

[IsaacQ @IQuarkStar]

@keirbage Wait, Blair resigned?? I wasn't old enough to really know about politics back then but Blair is essentially British Satan. Idk if Starmer is worse but he's definitely no better. If anything, I've always felt Starmer is more like some kind of puppet that can't do anything himself.

[Nym @nym]

A verified internet is a watched internet
The EU knows this
That's the point

[♡ @internett_baby]

If a man pays child support, and finds out later the child isn't even his, the mother should have to pay all of it back no ifs, ands, or buts. People arguing against this are wild.

[Evan Luthra @EvanLuthra]

🚨GOOGLE JUST SILENTLY DOWNLOADED A 4GB AI MODEL TO YOUR COMPUTER WITHOUT ASKING.. WITHOUT TELLING YOU.. AND WITHOUT ANY WAY TO STOP IT..

If you use Chrome.. There's a good chance a 4 gigabyte file is sitting on your hard drive right now that you never agreed to download..

It's called Gemini Nano.. Google's on-device AI model.. A security researcher just proved it installs itself with zero clicks.. Zero prompts.. Zero notifications..

Alexander Hanff set up a completely fresh Chrome profile.. Didn't click anything.. Didn't scroll.. Didn't type a single keystroke.. Just opened the browser and watched..

14 minutes and 28 seconds later.. Chrome had silently scanned his hardware.. Read his GPU, RAM, and storage.. Then wrote a 4GB file to his hard drive.. No permission dialog.. Nothing..

Chrome's own logs show the download begins BEFORE the settings page where you could opt out is even loaded.. The file starts installing before the refusal button exists..

As of Chrome 148.. Any website you visit can trigger this download.. One line of JavaScript.. You click a link to read a blog post.. That click counts as "user activation".. And Chrome silently pulls 4GB in the background..

No install prompt.. No consent dialog.. Google's own docs admit this..

Your laptop overheats.. Storage disappears.. Battery drains.. And you have no idea why..

The model doesn't even work well.. Cloud requests take 1.3 seconds.. The local model at worst case takes over 9 minutes for a single response..

Google is using your storage, electricity, and bandwidth to run an AI that's 40 times slower than their own servers..

And the "AI Mode" button in Chrome's address bar.. Doesn't even use the local model.. It sends everything to Google's cloud anyway..

You pay the storage penalty.. The heat penalty.. The bandwidth penalty.. And the visible AI feature ignores the local file entirely..

Because Chrome fails to clean up old versions.. Users are finding 12GB or more of duplicate AI files stacked on their drives..

Palo Alto Networks found a vulnerability where a browser extension could hijack the local AI model's permissions.. Accessing your webcam.. Microphone.. Local files.. Through an AI you never installed..

Here's how to check if it's on your machine..

Windows.. C:\Users\[YourName]\AppData\Local\Google\Chrome\User Data\Default\OptGuideOnDeviceModel\

Mac.. ~/Library/Application Support/Google/Chrome/Default/OptGuideOnDeviceModel/

If there's a file called weights.bin.. Google downloaded their AI to your computer without asking..

To stop it.. Type chrome://flags.. Search "optimization-guide-on-device-model" and disable it.. Search "prompt-api-for-gemini-nano" and disable that too.. Restart Chrome.. Then manually delete the folder..

If you don't disable the flags first.. Chrome redownloads the 4GB file on next launch..

Firefox requires explicit opt-in for AI.. Apple Intelligence requires explicit consent.. Chrome just takes your hard drive..

Google didn't ask to use your storage.. Your electricity.. Your bandwidth..

They just took it.

[Nym @nym]

Transparency for the ones in power
Privacy for everyone else

[Nym @nym]

What if it was not about online safety at all...

"The Online Safety Act was meant to protect me, but as a teenager, I have not been taught what I am being “protected” from."

[Little Larry Sellers (parody) @SellersLittle]

@GoodLawProject @georgegalloway

[Nym @nym]

The police invited a supervillain into the database

-Palantir keeps IP addresses & search queries 2 years after contract ends
-British police must comply with US export law
-4 automatic extensions with no price cap
-Contract value: fully redacted

[Big Brother Watch @BigBrotherWatch]

⚠️Social media ban for under-16s = passport to post

It could end anonymity online by forcing every single user to submit to invasive biometric face scans or upload ID to use the internet fully.

We must stand together now to save free speech online⤵️
https://t.co/x6drNlyXX2

[Pirat_Nation 🔴 @Pirat_Nation]

The EU is pressing hard member states to roll out a new age-verification app as quickly as possible, targeting the end of this year

They say the app works in a simple, privacy-focused way:
>Users download it once
>scan their passport or national ID to confirm their age
>receive an anonymous digital credential. >This credential proves to websites or apps that the user meets a required age

Several nations, including France, Italy, Spain and others, are already testing the system.

Considering the app demo got hacked in under 2 minutes with a mobile phone, these are terrible news, I can see a massive data breach of personal info

[Nym @nym]

EU urges rollout of massive VPN usage across all member nations to protect access to internet.