openrightsgroup @openrightsgroup@mastodon.social

@openrightsgroup thank your Billionaire sponsor for driving people out of Twitter? 😜

A safer Internet, free of “suspected violence”

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2022/apr/07/youtube-suspends-account-of-chinese-vlogger-reporting-from-ukraine-on-atrocities
#OnlineSafetyBill

Hey, so this is super cool.

Google has been collecting call and messaging data about who you talk to or send text messages to for years. There's no opt-out, no notifcation in their TOS they're doing this, and you can't see the results of that collection in Google Takeout.

https://www.scss.tcd.ie/doug.leith/privacyofdialerandsmsapps.pdf

@openrightsgroup @tek_dmn The problem is that the groups wishing to ban or limit encryption (police, governments, even people with legitimate concerns about crimes such as human trafficking) tend to encounter a disproportionate number of 'bad' people, which slants their view of the uses for encryption. I believe there are vastly more good people who want to be able to interact with each other freely, conduct legitimate business safely and privately.

UK Government to launch anti-encryption ads to push people towards weaker phone security
The campaign will cost over £500,000 of public money, and is aimed to avoid ‘a privacy vs safety debate’ altogether

https://www.independent.co.uk/tech/government-encryption-whatsapp-phone-security-b1994758.html

The @openrightsgroup have a lot to say about this all... https://youtu.be/FVVhFrBsQXk

#EDPB consulting on “dark patterns” AKA the nonsense you encounter on Cookie Consent pop ups

Some great terms for the things you see that are in their view not compliant with #GDPR

https://edpb.europa.eu/system/files/2022-03/edpb_03-2022_guidelines_on_dark_patterns_in_social_media_platform_interfaces_en.pdf

We have no plans to add an NFT feature like some other "photo sharing" platforms.

We don't have anything against cryptocurrency, we prefer to stick to our photo sharing roots. #pixelfed #pixelsNotProfits

ugh... the #uk #onlinesafetybill sounds like it should have been incorporated into 1984 by Orwell.

https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3137/publications

Here is the #onlinesafetybill press release; this will include powers to compel larger #mastodon instances to scan and delete content for example https://www.gov.uk/government/news/world-first-online-safety-laws-introduced-in-parliament