FBI Tells Senate It’s Still Bypassing 4th Amendment By Purchasing Location Data From Third Parties

In 2018, the Supreme Court ruled that warrants were needed to obtain cell site location info (CSLI). That decision dealt with law enforcement’s warrantless acquisition of 127 days of location…

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The first system to enact California's age verification law should be the California legislature

Legislators and their aids should be forced to *remotely* verify their age before they're allowed to login or enter the building

They should be forced to verify their age for each and every service

Email? Verify
File storage? Verify
Calendar? Verify
Video conferencing? Verify
Badge? Verify
Bathroom passcode? Verify
MFA? Verify
Parking garage? Verify

#AgeVerification #MassSurveillance #USpol

Klarnamenpflicht ist kein Opferschutz, sondern eigentlich Täterschutz. Sie erschwert es insbesondere betroffenen und marginalisierten Gruppen, sich frei auszutauschen, Unterstützung zu finden und Missstände öffentlich zu machen. Dadurch entsteht ein Umfeld, das eher Tätern als Opfern zugutekommt. Nur mal so am Rande der Massenüberwachungsdebatte.

#depol #klarnamenpflicht #masssurveillance

End of “Chat Control”: EU Parliament Stops Mass Surveillance in Voting Thriller – Paving the Way for Genuine Child Protection!

The controversial mass surveillance of private messages in Europe is coming to an end. After the European Parliament had already rejected the indiscriminate and blanket Chat Control by US tech companies on 13 March, conservative forces attempted a democratically highly questionable maneuver yesterda

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1/3 🎉 Today, Members of the European Parliament held strong in their rejection of #MassSurveillance in the ePrivacy derogation (sometimes called #ChatControl 1.0)!

In case you missed it, the Parliament took an unprecedented do-over vote on their position on the ePrivacy derogation today after days of shocking developments... 🧵

Good Idea: Get active against Chat control

IMPORTANT IF YOU LIVE IN THE EU 🇪🇺

A NEW CHATCONTROL VOTE HAS BEEN FORCED FOR TOMORROW, meaning that if this law passes, we are going to see ACTUAL MASS AI SURVEILLANCE FOR MESSAGING eu-wide

yes, this means that NOT ONLY the government could get access to EVERYTHING you say in private, BUT THAT E2E ENCRYPTION MIGHT BE PARTIALLY OR COMPLETELY OUTLAWED IN THE PROCESS, MEANING THE COMPLETE DEATH OF PRIVACY

THANKFULLY, we have a weapon: breaking their balls and making them understand this will fuck up everything and THEY will FOREVER be responsible for it

How do you do that? Easy

Go here: https://fightchatcontrol.eu
Find a politician in your country that is approving this surveillance law
And either send them an e-mail at the address reported there

OR !!!

WAY BETTER, AND THIS IS WHAT I AM DOING MYSELF WITH GREAT SUCCESS

https://www.europarl.europa.eu/

SEARCH THEIR PHONE NUMBER HERE AND CALL THEIR SECRETARY
THESE NUMBERS ARE THE MOST UP TO DATE, THEY WORKED 85% OF THE TIME FOR ME

you can make your own point to be passed to your rep, but the basic thing you have to say goes along the lines of:

"Hello, I’m calling about the Chat Control vote.”
“Please vote in favor of amendments 30 and 35.”
"It does not work effectively, as criminals can easily evade detection while false positives mean 2 in 10 innocent people will be accused of crimes they did not commit"
"State actors can exploit the backdoor you are opening to monitor private communications and spy on our industry secrets"
“And vote against any mass scanning of private messages as that is mass surveillance.”

🙏 to our oddly motivational friends

#privacy #chatcontrol #citizens #espionage #backdoor #masssurveillance #surveillance #thisisinsane

Fight Chat Control - Protect Digital Privacy in the EU

Learn about the EU Chat Control proposal and contact your representatives to protect digital privacy and encryption.

I've been asking the Christian right this question for over a decade now, and so far not a single one of them has been able to explain to me in what tangible, measurable way are kids harmed by seeing a pair of tits on a computer screen.

#Censorship #KidsOnlineSafetyAct #DigitalID #Surveillance #MassSurveillance #Politics #Evangelicals #Religion

Someone Forked Systemd to Strip Out Its Age Verification Support

The project removes the birthDate field systemd added last week in response to age verification laws.

It's FOSS
🚨New Italian Digital Censorship Bill🚨
A week ago, the Regional Council of Veneto presented a bill that would ban under 16 teens from social networks and messaging apps with the help of a child safety association called "Emergenza Smartphone";Other than that they want to lockdown every electronic device with internet connection in Veneto unless every citizen "prove" they are over 16. #privacy #ageverification #italy #ChatControl #socialmediaban #masssurveillance #italianpolitics