On August 4th, 2025, APCS, Access Personal Checking Services, one of the largest organizations in the United Kingdom for performing "Disclosure and Barring Services" a/k/a background checks, determined its data has been compromised as a result of a 3rd party company named Intradev.

APCS works with over 19,000 organizations.

APCS is certified under the UK National Cyber Security Centre Cyber Essentials program.

APCS has stated the following:
- They don't know when it occured
- They don't know what was accessed
- They don't know if anything was exfiltrated
- They don't know the scope of the compromise

However, per the e-mail APCS has sent to customers, they believe data impacted includes:
- Basic personal information
- Passport
- Drivers License
- National Insurance details

APCS has asserted they're still investigating the matter.

BUT DON'T PAY ATTENTION TO THIS. The United Kingdom NEEDS YOU to keep the kids safe by giving companies your drivers license and/or passport. They NEED to see your information so they can make sure you're sufficiently aged to view YouTube, Discord, Spotify, or Wikipedia. We NEED to keep the kids safe. Give these companies your sensitive information. It's totally safe.

■■■■■ This Anti-Tracking Tool Checks If You’re Being Followed
The Raspberry Pi-powered device can scan for phones around you. If it keeps spotting the same one, it’ll send you an alert.

https://www.wired.com/story/this-anti-tracking-tool-checks-if-youre-being-followed/

■■■■■ Counter Tracking with Raspberry-Pi

https://www.geeky-gadgets.com/hidden-tracking-devices-detection-guide/

Just looked it up on their github, it's a known issue:
https://github.com/microg/GmsCore/issues/3034
It seems

Just to add: The SafetyNet fail is not caused by changes in the beta version. It's just the servers being no longer available.
https://linustechtips.com/topic/1612681-google-deprecates-old-safetynet-api-in-favor-of-play-integrity-api/
You shouldn't have any disadvantages by this, since every app should have been migrated to PlayIntegrity by now. It wouldn't work on Google phones otherwise.
It's mainly a problem for older Android releases not supporting PlayIntegrity and for the attestation being harder to achieve, but any modern app like your banking most likely ran already on PlayIntegrity anyways.

/fetch https://youtu.be/tUnRWh4xOCY

■■□□□ NITDA Alerts Nigerians To eSIM Security Flaw Deployed To Hijack Devices Worldwide.

eSIM or embedded SIM is a digital SIM that enables customers to access the same functionality as someone using a physical SIM.

https://www.channelstv.com/2025/08/23/nitda-alerts-nigerians-to-esim-security-flaw-deployed-to-hijack-devices-worldwide/

■■■■□ Company turned laptops into covert recording devices to monitor WFH.

Safetrac breached the state surveillance laws after chief executive Deborah Coram admitted in legal documents that her company recorded the audio and screens of select members of its staff, who work from home.

https://www.afr.com/work-and-careers/workplace/company-turned-laptops-into-covert-recording-devices-to-monitor-wfh-20250822-p5mp0z

👁👁 Big Brother sends his regards: Palantir sinks its claws into Europe

The Netherlands’ police have been using AI intelligence software supplied by US spyware giant Palantir since 2011, local media revealed last week thanks to documents obtained via the Open Government Act.

But if you think that The Netherlands is the only European country to use this controversial software – think again.

🔴 In Germany, several federal lands like Bavaria and North Rhine-Westphalia use Palantir’s products, such as the AI-powered surveillance program Gotham, in law enforcement, even though the German federal government officially ceased using Palantir tools in 2023.

🔴 Palantir’s Gotham is used in the POL-INTEL data analysis program run by the law enforcement in Denmark and designed for predictive policing.

🔴 In the United Kingdom, Palantir secured a multimillion dollar contract to develop a Federated Data Platform for the National Health Service.

🔴 France’s intelligence and national police actively use Palantir’s products for data analysis, despite efforts to develop local analogs.

Having already become the biggest spying machine in US history, Palantir now spreads its tools and influence across the US-dominated Western Europe and the meek EU bureaucrats do not seem to mind.

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Russia to Mandate Preinstallation of State Messaging App MAX and RuStore on All Smartphones and Tablets
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The ATOM Project looks to take on Chinese AI dominance.

https://news.itsfoss.com/the-atom-project/

Interesting article on "snoopery android apps":



https://peabee.substack.com/p/everyone-knows-what-apps-you-use

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