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THIS great sentiment
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maybe we ALL take a serious & sober look at how ABSENCE of LAW over past 18 years (not bad law, shitty or law unfair law... no law)
in:
• #internet
• #mobile #social
• #privacy
• #surveillance
• #AI #ML
• #data #governance

This is a massive #mastodon #fediverse opportunity we can collectively capitalize on before #SiliconValley #BigTech #VC carpet baggers arrive.

#my2cents

@klonick@davew@craignewmark@jeffjarvis@daphnehk@qjurecic@blaine @@profcarroll


Admittedly, I don't use a VPN, but I also actively avoid using these services. Most digital convenience is wrapped in #surveillance these days.

"We confirm that iOS 16 does communicate with Apple services outside an active VPN tunnel. Worse, it leaks DNS requests. #Apple services that escape the VPN connection include Health, Maps, Wallet. We used @ProtonVPN and #Wireshark. Details in the video:

#CyberSecurity #Privacy"

Via: https://twitter.com/mysk_co/status/1579997801047822336



There is a nice infographic in this article explaining how the global COVID-19 tracking app could work but they missed a few things. Here is revised and improved variant 😀


Coronavirus: Call for single EU tracking app with data protection | BBC News


Europe's data protection watchdog has called for a single coronavirus app to be used across the EU, instead of every country making its own.
Several countries are developing tracking apps, but privacy advocates warn of the dangers they might pose.
The European Data Protection Supervisor says a single EU app with strong data protection built in is the best solution to the coronavirus pandemic.


#technology #tech #Covid-19 #CoronaVirus

#privacy #freedom #surveillance #pandemic


Here is some chilling expert commentary from Alexander Hanff on the proposed #CSAM #surveillance law: https://twitter.com/alexanderhanff/status/1524307350710013952


Here is the first leak I've seen from the Commission's upcoming "we-will-break-into-everyone's-private-chats" law. #CSAM #digitalrights #e2ee #privacy

This looks like a shameful general #surveillance law entirely unfitting for any free democracy.

(via Moritz Körner@Twitter)



I already hate plausible deniability in politicians' speech, but nothing irks me more than when it involves "child sex abuse protection" to peddle a wide net #surveillance apparatus.

This time it's the EU, but the fallacy "if you're against surveillance, you're for child sex abuse" has been successfully used in the US as well.

#chatcontrol is an EU plan to spy in real time on *all* your communication, including encrypted messengers like Signal. Let me put it bluntly: If the state doesn't trust me, I will never trust the state. This is unacceptable. Period.


This article about a #CIA offshoot funding several prominent Internet #privacy projects is pretty damning on its own, but it will not change my app usage decision. I do not personally use #Signal to be protected from nation-state level #surveillance.

However, it put in perspective Edward Snodwen's recent "testimonial" for the app as being alive as a good reason to use Signal. Now I do not believe this is the main reason or even a reason at all he hasn't been assassinated on the US government orders yet.

Bottom line, even if Signal had a US-government backdoor, I'd still recommend its use to protect oneself from corporate surveillance.


This instance of worker #surveillance is particularly egregious, but it is only the latest installment of a long-running #Microsoft strategy, please read the whole thread.

Esoteric metrics based on analyzing extensive data about employee activities has been mostly the domain of fringe software vendors. Now it's built into MS 365.

A new feature to calculate 'productivity scores' turns Microsoft 365 into an full-fledged workplace surveillance tool:

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