To backdoor encryption is to backdoor personhood.
What do I mean by āthe Trump era William Barr justice department āthink of the childrenā playbook?ā
This: http://cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/2019/10/william-barr-and-winnie-pooh
EU Commissionās latest attempt to backdoor your privacy tries the Trump era William Barr justice department āthink of the childrenā playbook.
No one thinks we shouldnāt do everything in our power to combat child sexual abuse. Some of us just donāt want to destroy the fundamental human right to privacy (and every other human right thatās based on it) in the process.
https://mastodon.ar.al/web/@EU_Commission@social.network.europa.eu/108306318245441012
Fucking hell, as some of you have pointed out in the comments, also, itās tied to my router. I have the same router I had in Malmƶ. If this is not a GDPR violation, I have no idea what is.
So Mozilla ā Defender of Privacy⢠ā is storing my location history, tied to my router, without ever having gotten consent from me to do so.
This is a fucking scandal.
Sorry, Iāve deleted my Zorin OS tweet. I hadnāt realised that Zorin OS sends a ping from your computer every hour with a unique identifier.
No way I can recommend you install it as long as this is the case.
Why do people do such things? *smh*
Spyware literally sending people to prison.
Meanwhile, some galaxy brain somewhere: I have nothing to hide. I am very intelligent.
If you had told me āApple is just the same as Google on privacyā six years ago, you would have been wrong because they were incomparably better (https://ar.al/notes/apple-vs-google-on-privacy-a-tale-of-absolute-competitive-advantage/).
If you were to tell me the same thing today, you would still be wrong. Because when they implement client-side scanning, they will actually be worse (https://ar.al/2021/08/08/apple-is-trying-to-redefine-what-it-means-to-violate-your-privacy-we-must-not-let-it/).
Never forget: No trillion-dollar corporation is your friend.
#apple #google #privacy #SurveillanceCapitalism #capitalism #ClientSideScanning
Apple is trying to redefine what it means to violate your privacy. We must not let it.
Apple is slowly boiling frogs on client-side scanning.
They got a backlash when they announced everything they were planning all at once so now theyāre drip feeding it, hoping you wonāt notice.
(According to Appleās justification, none of this will involve a violation of your privacy. Apple wonāt know what phrase exactly was matched as it will simply have been given a list of hashes of āphrases used by terroristsā by the Turkish government and that should make you feel better once youāre out in a few years and can use it again.)
Say your self-driving car had client-side scanning like Appleās phones, tablets, and computers will soon do⦠how would that work?
So in Turkey, for example, instead of issuing a long-winded command like āSiri, take me to the nearest police stationā, you could mutter āFuck ErdoÄan!ā and the car would understand.
It would work the same way in your āsmartā homeā¦
Smart tech is so cool, right? Ever wondered whoās getting smarter about whom?
This is good.
Now, about client-side scanningā¦
https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2021/11/apple-announces-self-service-repair/
HT @mia #apple #rightToRepair #privacy #clientSideScanning #humanRights
Lauraās talk at PrivacyWeek Austria is about to start: āPeople might actually use thisā
Watch live: https://streaming.media.ccc.de/pw21/stream#switcher
Tune in to PrivacyWeek Austria in an hour to watch Lauraās talk.
So I just watched the #AppleEvent
The new MacBook Pro is a phenomenal device.
Will I buy one?
Hell no.
Why not?
Because Apple is planning on fundamentally violating our privacy by implementing client-side scanning.
So I no longer trust them.
Framasoft are one of the few no-bullshit, non-Silicon Valley organisations working to protect your freedoms online and theyāve been hugely supportive of us since the very beginning.
Please support them if you can.
This really sucks (read thread). And has told me more than I need to know about CalyxOS. Wonāt be looking into it any further as a potential alternative (microG is a deal-breaker for any longer-term solution anyway).
https://twitter.com/GrapheneOS/status/1439296676129292288?s=20
I make small things.
#smallWeb #smallTech #web #tech #privacy #humanRights #personhood #democracy #aral #fedi22