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Congress Must Defeat HPSCI Surveillance Bill
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Congress Vote on Digital Liberties and Basic Rights
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US people who care about basic liberties, please read and please encourage the people in congress who vote on your behalf to vote no. It’s piling faster than I can shovel some days but that’s no reason to give up the fight when it’s this important
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Signal Push Notifications Security and Data Protection
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PSA: We've received questions about push notifications. First: push notifications for Signal NEVER contain sensitive unencrypted data & do not reveal the contents of any Signal messages or calls–not to Apple, not to Google, not to anyone but you & the people you're talking to. 1/
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Signal’s Push Notification Dependency on Apple Google
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What's the background here? Currently, in order to enable push notifications on the dominant mobile operating systems (iOS and Android) those building and maintaining apps like Signal need to use services offered by Apple and Google. 3/
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Mass Surveillance Through Connected Devices: Privacy Under Threat
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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.
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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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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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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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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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Stanford Creates Advisory Board for Foundation Model Transparency
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JUST IN: @StanfordCRFM names @random_walker
, Daniel E. Ho, @dsallentess
, @DAcemogluMIT
, and @ruchowdh as the Advisory Board for a new initiative to measure and improve transparency in the foundation model ecosystem. Read the full announcement here: https://
stanford.io/4aiPigk