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.

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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 away
• New 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 waves
• Full Defense Bulletin: Texas (3M IDs), LastPass, FIFA's wide-open World Cup portal, and a stack of FOSS updates

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🔗 SOURCES & LINKS
View 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
• (00:36) - APPLE WEAKENING HIDE MY EMAIL
• (06:26) - CHROME FORMALLY ENDING MV2
• (09:12) - OUR SPONSOR: EASYOPTOUTS!
• (10:32) - UK & CANADA SURVEILLANCE
• (15:44) - MALWARE IN THE AUR
• (18:34) - DEFENSE BULLETIN: DATA BREACHES
• (21:40) - DEFENSE BULLETIN: THREATS
• (24:36) - DEFENSE BULLETIN: FOSS+

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Your essential weekly tech news podcast covering the latest threats to security, privacy, and digital freedom. Hosted by Henry Fisher from Techlore.