Anything you send using Email or SMS/MMS is unencrypted, therefore, assume anything sent through unencrypted channels is public knowledge.

#Privacy #Security #Cryptography #Encryption #E2EE #EndToEndEncryption #EncryptEverything #Email #SMS #MMS #EarnIt #EarnItAct #EarnItBill

Dangerous EARN IT Bill Advances Out of Committee, but Several Senators Offer Objections
Last week, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted, for a third time, to advance the dangerous EARN IT bill (S. 1207)—a law that could lead to suspicionless scans of every online message, photo, and hosted file.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/05/dangerous-earn-it-bill-advances-out-committee-several-senators-offer-objections #EarnItBill #committee #objections
Dangerous EARN IT Bill Advances Out of Committee, but Several Senators Offer Objections

Last week, the Senate Judiciary Committee voted, for a third time, to advance the dangerous EARN IT bill (S. 1207)—a law that could lead to suspicionless scans of every online message, photo, and hosted file.In the name of fighting crime, the EARN IT Act treats all internet users like we should be...

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I find it interesting that the thing that finally seems to be getting through to people regarding online privacy is abortion bans and state governments using apps to find out who is likely to have had an abortion.

I feel like, whatever your take on abortion is, this is a good thing because we've needed something that people actually care about to be threatened to make them realize how far government overreach has gotten.

Just a thought...

#privacy #abortion #earnitbill

Restrict Act, Chatcontrol, Modified Elephant Followup: Stan Swami (Strong Encryption Saves Lives)

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The EARN IT Bill Is Back, Seeking To Scan Our Messages and Photos

In a free society, people should not have their private correspondence constantly examined. U.S. lawmakers, we would hope, understand that individuals have the right to a private conversation without the government looking over their shoulder. So it’s dismaying to see a group of U.S. Senators...

Electronic Frontier Foundation

@Natanox completely about #1 wrecking any chance of encrypted communication on current/future platforms. encryption in general. IMO. 🔓

#EARNITACT #EarnitBill #encryption

S.3538 - 117th Congress (2021-2022): EARN IT Act of 2022

Summary of S.3538 - 117th Congress (2021-2022): EARN IT Act of 2022

For those of you who are in the US, I am going to post this link here because this should be big news but I do not see it on the news.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/02/its-back-senators-want-earn-it-bill-scan-all-online-messages
#EFF #earnit #earnitbill #Privacy #Surveillance #usgovernment #ussenate

It’s Back: Senators Want EARN IT Bill to Scan All Online Messages

People don’t want outsiders reading their private messages —not their physical mail, not their texts, not their DMs, nothing. It’s a clear and obvious point, but one place it doesn’t seem to have reached is the U.S. Senate.A group of lawmakers led by Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D-CT) and Sen. Lindsey...

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