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🚨 BREAKING 🚨
The UK is rogue in trying to order a backdoor to Apple encryption.
US lawmakers slam the UK's secretive order, calling it what it is:
🔥 'Dangerous' for global cybersecurity
🔥 'Effectively a foreign cyberattack'
The Home Office must back off ✋
#encryption #surveillance #e2ee #cybersecurity #ukpolitics #ukpol #Apple #privacy
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/02/13/apple-uk-security-back-door-adp/
It couldn't be clearer: Encryption is online safety.
It keeps our data secure from hackers. Our systems secure from global bad actors. Our rights secure from State oppression in a digitalised society.
Sign and share our petition to save Apple encrypted data ⬇️
#encryption #surveillance #e2ee #cybersecurity #ukpolitics #ukpol #Apple
https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/keep-our-apple-data-encrypted
Keep our Apple data encrypted
It is reported that the Home Office has ordered Apple to build a backdoor into its encrypted services so that they can get hold of content that any Apple user has upload to the cloud. Encryption keeps our private information safe and secure.38 Degrees
Volkswagen leak exposed precise location data on thousands of vehicles across Europe for months | TechCrunch
The data was found exposed on an Amazon cloud server, and contained precise location data on thousands of vehicles.Zack Whittaker (TechCrunch)
As with all modern digital surveillance, if your own government or regime creates a #surveillance system, other actors — including good old-fashioned criminals — may be able to hoover up the data as well. 🤷🏻♂️
See the Chinese #SaltTyphoon intrusion into US networks. They want a dossier on everyone on the planet who's able to afford a phone.
Even CCP's own massive internal surveillance state is leaking Chinese subjects' data all over the place...
https://www.theregister.com/2024/12/08/chinese_insiders_stealing_data/
How Chinese insiders are stealing data scooped up by President Xi's national surveillance system
'It's a double-edged sword,' security researchers tell The RegJessica Lyons (The Register)
#WTF #privacy #surveillance #consumer #security #comsec #thirdpartyparasites
Latest comic. A British consumer rights group examined unnecessary data harvesting by “smart” devices, including air fryers connected to phone apps. While these devices may not pose the greatest privacy risk in our everyday lives, they are part of a growing Internet of Things capable of collecting data when and where we least expect it.
#comic #cartoon #technology #tech #privacy #surveillance #consumer #cooking #internet #internetofthings
When will Nextcloud's release announcements #RegainControl of where their videos are hosted?
So far you've chosen to keep them silo'd off on a #proprietary, #centralized, non #privacy friendly #surveillance platform, ie #Google's #YouTube.
Is this what #Nextcloud / #NextcloudHub stands for?
So far, the repeated silence on this subject has spoken louder than any release announcement.
"Lost in Transit: Digitization of Mail Expands Surveillance Beyond Prisons"
This is a good article about TextBehind, the predatory mail digitization and surveillance company that the North Carolina prison system and the Buncombe County Jail contracts with:
https://logicmag.io/supa-dupa-skies/lost-in-transit-digitization/
#Prison #Asheville #NorthCarolina #surveillance
Lost in Transit: Digitization of Mail Expands Surveillance Beyond Prisons
As analog forms of surveillance and social control are renegotiated toward digital ones, incarcerated people are isolated and made especially vulne...Logic(s) Magazine
Wired just posted an exclusive about how USPS is conducting warrantless mail surveillance.
Considering our current political landscape, it's worth stressing that USPS's system is actually rooted in historical efforts to criminalize birth control and labor radicalism (see follow-up post) #news #surveillance #labor #reproductivejustice #reproductiverights #histodons #history
The US Post Office Is Spying on the Mail. Senators Want to Stop It
The USPS carries out warrantless surveillance on thousands of parcels every year. Lawmakers want it to end—right now.Dell Cameron (WIRED)
Over 320 people have joined our campaign to #StopTheSpyClause in the Online Safety Bill (UK).
Will you join the movement to protect your privacy? #DontScanMe
#OnlineSafetyBill #privacy #e2ee #ukpolitics #surveillance
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/dont-scan-me
Join the Campaign to Stop the Spy Clause
Take action to oppose mass survillance of our private messagesOpen Rights Group
Coming to your apps from the makers of the Online Safety Bill. It’s goodbye encryption and hello mass surveillance. Recommended by authoritarians everywhere.
Or tell the government #DontScanMe
👉 Join our campaign: https://action.openrightsgroup.org/dont-scan-me
#OnlineSafetyBill #StopTheSpyClause #privacy #surveillance #e2ee
Join the Campaign to Stop the Spy Clause
Take action to oppose mass survillance of our private messagesOpen Rights Group
#OpenWeb
#Privacy
#Encryption
(In case you were thinking of learning/using Go, I’d say skip it. There are plenty of other fish in the sea. Unless you like telemetry by default in your programming languages and tools, that is. In fact, just don’t touch anything tainted by Google if you can help it.)
https://github.com/golang/go/discussions/58409
#google #alphabet #go #surveillance #capitalism #peopleFarming #privacy #development #dev #software
telemetry in the Go toolchain · Discussion #58409 · golang/go
How do software developers understand which parts of their software are being used and whether they are performing as expected? The modern answer is telemetry, which means software sending data to ...GitHub
The culture of pervasive #school #surveillance makes me want to vomit.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/ideas/videos/surveillance-capitalism-has-led-us-into-a-dystopia/p06p0tdy
(Where we differ with Shoshana, who coined the former term, is that she sees it as a corruption of capitalism, whereas I see it as the natural evolution of capitalism in the digital network age.)
#surveillanceCapitalism #peopleFarming #BigTech #VentureCapital #SiliconValley #surveillance #capitalism #corporatocracy
'Surveillance capitalism has led us into a dystopia' - BBC Ideas
Watch the "'Surveillance capitalism has led us into a dystopia'" video at BBC Ideas. Explore other related content via our curated "Artificial intelligence: What kind of world do we want?" playlist.www.bbc.co.uk