So we remain vigilant & deeply grateful to our allies. For Signal, Chat Control is an existential threat. If we were *forced* to choose between building surveillance into our services or keeping our integrity, we would choose integrity & leave the market. We hope it never comes
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Backdoors Create Cybersecurity Vulnerabilities Exploitable by Hackers
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The technical consensus is clear: you can't create a backdoor that only lets the "good guys" in. However they're dressed up, these proposals create cybersecurity loopholes that hackers and hostile nations are eagerly waiting to exploit. 6/
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Encryption scanning creates dangerous backdoors negating security purpose
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The reality is that scanning any content before it is encrypted negates the very purpose of encryption and is a dangerous backdoor. No amount of tinkering or word games can change that inescapable reality. 5/
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Privacy Concerns in Content Scanning Surveillance Proposals
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We must be wary of "new" proposals that allow scanning of "known content" while claiming to protect privacy by proscribing "indiscriminate" surveillance. We must also look out for those that mandate only scanning for “hashed images or videos.” 4/
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Privacy Defense Against Surveillance and Emotional Arguments
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Defending privacy isn't easy. Those in power always want more access +more info. It's especially hard when emotionally charged args are used to advance surveillance to those doing the work!
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Germany Opposes Chat Control Mass Surveillance Proposal
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We're so relieved to see Germany reaffirm its opposition to the dangerous Chat Control proposal–the one that would mandate mass scanning of communications. Germany's long been a solid champion of privacy, and the news that it was considering backing mass surveillance was
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Image blocking issues with AI content moderation systems
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Trying!!! But everything is getting blocked, tried both pics, even a wheat field gets blocked! :O
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Petri Framework Advances AI Model Safety Assessments
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Petri builds on our alignment assessments in the Claude 4 and 4.5 System Cards; the @AISecurityInst also successfully built on a pre-release version of Petri for their assessments of our models.
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Voice Input Privacy Concerns in Social Environments
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it's one of the biggest deterrents for me to use voice input – it's a bit weird to speak in an environment where you know there's atleast one person listening to you
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EU faces convergent cyber threats from diverse threat groups
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EU consistently targeted by diverse yet convergent threat groups https://
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