🚨BREAKING🚨
We've teamed up with #Foxglovelegal
to challenge the transfers of refugees' data to the Rwandan Government 👇🏽
https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/politics/priti-patel-faces-first-legal-26827437
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Lots of new activity on #mastodon today! Welcome everyone and thanks for following us :)
🚨🚨🚨 The Government’s #OnlineSafetyBill is an Orwellian Censor’s Charter and will make the internet
❌ LESS FREE
❌ LESS SAFE
❌ LESS SECURE
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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
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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
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
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⚠️The new #OnlineSafetyBill will make people less safe⚠️
▶️ Helping criminals and dictators by undermining encryption and safe comms
▶️ Pushing automated censorship of vital info
▶️ Punishing victims of abuse and bullying who use anonymity to protect themselves
ugh... the #uk #onlinesafetybill sounds like it should have been incorporated into 1984 by Orwell.
Universal scanning isn’t compatible with encryption, privacy, or security. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/03/eff-tells-eu-commission-dont-break-encryption
🚨 The UK Home Office has quietly introduced a system of 24/7 GPS surveillance as a condition of immigration bail, and will use this data against people in their immigration applications.
Learn more: https://pvcy.org/techprimer
The #onlinesafetybill has arrived:
Now down to the business of pulling it apart and understanding exactly how bad it has got https://bills.parliament.uk/bills/3137/publications
Online Safety made dangerous: how the #onlinesafetybill will make life harder for victims, and easier for platforms to cement their monopoly power_blog by @jim https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/online-safety-made-dangerous/
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