UGH. Please read, share, call. Fighting for privacy can be wearying, feel defeating, but we need to fight this latest attempted mass surveillance ratchet turn, working to make all of our devices, and the infra they rely on, into snitches. This is not a world we can accept.
@mer__edith
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Signal Advances Privacy Standards Open Source Messaging
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Ofc, yes, Signal offers much more privacy & serious people who value confidentiality use Signal bc we protect metadata + aren't attached to a surveillance corp + are FOSS + audited… That's true AND we must celebrate all (rare) privacy wins and those who made them happen! 6/
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End-to-End Encryption: Privacy Protection Against Corporate Surveillance
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E2ee provides vital protection. While no corp OR gov should have access to the vast surveillance data typical of tech cos, for now we can celebrate wins like this, which offer the safety of privacy in a world where daily activities and solidarities increasingly put us at risk. 5/
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Meta surveillance enables criminalization of healthcare seekers
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And corp (+ gov) surveillance is playing a troubling role in enabling such. To take one example., Meta turned over FB messages bet. Jessica Burgess & her daughter. These were used to criminalize them for seeking banned healthcare. They're now sentenced to 2 years in prison. 4/
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Mass Surveillance Threatens Civil Liberties and Political Freedom
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This normalization of mass surveillance has chilling consequences. And IMO we're not discussing a hypothetical slippery slope–we're looking up from the bottom. In the US, access to reproductive healthcare is being criminalized, books banned, and political expression silenced. 3/
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Corporate surveillance replaces privacy norm without public consent
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In a short few decades, w/o consent or full public awareness, the norm of privacy has been overwritten by the norm of corp (& gov) surveillance, c/o the normalization of the surveillance business model in tech. And yes, Meta is an exemplar here. 2/
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Meta Launches End-to-End Encryption Using Signal Protocol
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Thrilled to see Meta officially launching e2ee for 1:1 chats in FB + Insta, and using the Signal protocol to do it! Congratulations to all involved! This is a significant achievement and a rare win for privacy, (from a very unlikely place, I know!) 1/
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Apple Google Cannot Access Your Text Messages Data
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No. No one–including Apple and Google–has access to your text messages or sensitive metadata.