Despite being a big supporter of Apple and having worked closely with them on a number of privacy issues - I have a problem with the fact that it is impossible for users to audit what apps are doing on the majority of Apple's devices and as such I am calling for Apple to be held liable when apps they control (they do the review and prevent us from auditing directly) which then break the law (which would include 97% of apps in the EU).

In this article I discuss how I use Claude Code to replace app store mobile apps with local PWAs that have the same functionality without the privacy abuses and explain that if mobile app developers don't start to obey the law, others will eventually do the same and they will go out of business.

No matter how many laws the US States pass for online provacy, none of them are fit for purpose because they are all based on Notice and Choice (OPT-OUT) which then hits the Same Origin Policy in the browser.

Many people have asked me how I manage my privacy first stance when it comes to AI - the answer is simple so I wrote a blog post about it.

I have put up a list of all the MEPs who voted for the urgency procedure yesterday (in breach of EU rules) as well as their voting history on fundamental rights issues and who has been lobbying them:

https://www.thatprivacyguy.com/blog/chat-control-the-415-who...

Thanks. Please note that your link doesn't work with the tor browser.

OK it should be fixed now - there was a rate limit which doesn't normally land but due to multiple Tor users coming through the same exit node, it was triggering the limit.

Nothing to do with the certs just told me a cert error because it never finished the handshake.

I tested through Tor on multiple machines now and multiple circuits and is working clean - thanks for the heads up.

I cannot see what is causing the issue, the certificate's full chain is sent, the clock is synced, the cert is showing zero errors in OpenSSL - so this is very confusing.

The irony is, you don't actually need Tor on my site because there is no logging, no third parties, no adtech etc. it is just static HTML files - so whereas I would normally recommend Tor I designed the site specifically to be privacy first.

I will try to figure out what is going on though because obviously I am fully supportive of people protecting their privacy with Tor.

Not sure why, it is working fine everywhere else - I see in Tor it gives an invalid certificate error, but the Lets Encrypt certificate is working fine in other browsers, so seems to be a Tor thing specifically.

I will investigate.

Thank you!

After yesterday disastrous result for democracy, where the President of the European Parliament used her power to force a vote on ChatControl I which the Parliament already voted against and allowed to expire earlier this year.

The move by the President is unprecedented and marks a dangerous time for EU democracy where if the President of the Parliament can overturn a democratic vote they disagree with - what is the point of the Parliament at all?

So I have collected all the details on the MEPs who failed to vite against the procedure yesterday along with their voting history on issues relating to fundamental rights and their history of meetings with lobbyists.

The results paint a very clear picture that these MEPs represent business, not the people who elected them.

As a CSA survivor I have spent decades campaigning for victims and survivors of CSA/CSAM and even wrote my Master Thesis on the topic.

Yesterday I once again pleaded with EU law makers not to pass Chat Control.

Whereas the main story here is the Commission's complete failure to do anything about Pegasus - I focused on the fact that the MEP in question and MEPs in general - should not be using their phones as information archives.

I haven't ever used Google Slides - does that make me special?

I saw this - so they are spending money 2x faster than they are making it and offering to give the public 5% of their debt whilst Sam takes home billions... sounds like a fantastic deal...