🔒 SIGNAL SECURITY SETTINGS 🔒
Hey folks - Please take a minute to update your settings and pass this on. You may have seen this article from 404 Media going around on your Signal threads today. Wanted to share some up-to-date information about how we can help keep each other safer.

📍 SITUATION: Cops in the Prairieland case used tools to extract the internal iPhone notification log. This had the names and content for all incoming Signal messages the person had received. This applied only to incoming messages, and it was possible even when disappearing messaged were turned on. This isn't a flaw in Signal, but a weakness in how the phone stores past notifications. Signal is not compromised!

🛡 WHAT YOU CAN DO: To prevent this, go to: Signal > Profile picture > Settings > Notifications > Notification Content > Select "No Name or Content" — The lack of notification information may be annoying, but it helps keep us all safer. (Don't disable notifications entirely in your system settings or you won't be able to receive incoming Signal calls.)

🔒 OTHER SIGNAL SECURITY SETTINGS: Our conversations are only as secure as our devices. Signal is very secure but we need to configure it well (disappearing messages, etc) and make sure our device is secure (strong passcode, biometrics off, up-to-date software, etc.). This is a great moment to take 15 minutes and do this Signal security checklist: https://activistchecklist.org/signal/

📣 SPREAD THE WORD: Signal is also only as secure as all the phones of the people we're organizing with. If one person has weak settings, they could reveal the messages of everyone they are communicating with. What can you do about that? Two things: 1) Forward this message along to your groups. 2) Host a security party. Spend an hour going through some of the guides on https://activistchecklist.org/ Bring treats. Make it fun.

#Signal #Security #Activists

Coalition Pushed for Cycling Lanes and Better Buses and Got Them, Transforming Manila in the Process

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/coalition-pushed-for-cycling-lanes-and-better-buses-and-got-them-transforming-manila-in-the-process/

#Meta #Cafeteria Workers Did What Execs Won’t: Took on #ICE and Won

In #Seattle , #activists inside tech giants are leaning into #grassroots #fundraising and peer support as #petitions and #protests draw little response from executives.

https://www.wired.com/story/how-meta-cafeteria-workers-rallied-to-take-on-ice/

Digital Hopes, Real Power: How the #ArabSpring Fueled a Global #Surveillance Boom

For #activists , #journalists , & everyday users, that means now living with a constant threat: the phone in your pocket, the platforms you organize on, and the systems you rely on for safety and connection can be #weaponized at the flip of a switch. A global surveillance industry has treated repression by many #MENA governments as a growth opportunity, …now shape digital authoritarianism

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/digital-hopes-real-power-how-arab-spring-fueled-global-surveillance-boom

⚖️ #law - In the past month, ELSC has continued to document and challenge the machinery of repression and complicity across #europe — from launching Britain’s Index of Repression to defending #activists in courts, challenging bans on protest and Palestinian symbols, and holding corporations accountable, includ. issuing a compliance notice over #gaza -linked arms shipments to Haifa

#ELSC shares evidence, analysis, and strategy - check out #case updates and #UK Index 👇🏽

https://elsc.support/

Mother Jones: This Programmer Wants to Use Your Phone to Fight ICE. “The first thing you notice when you enter Sherman Austin’s Long Beach, California, apartment is the sounds. His cellphone buzzes constantly, mostly notifications requiring his attention from StopICE.net, a crowdsourced nationwide alert system he developed to let users know when federal immigration officers are nearby. Then […]

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https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2026/mar/26/new-york-hospitals-palantir-ai?CMP=oth_b-aplnews_d-1

#palantir #activists #freedom

#Palantir Will No Longer Profit Off of New Yorkers’ Health Data

After #TheIntercept exposed Palantir’s deal with #NYC public hospitals, the health care system didn’t renew the contract.

by Sam Biddle, March 24 2026

"A controversial multimillion-dollar deal between New York City’s public hospital system and military contractor Palantir, first reported by The Intercept, is coming to an end, according to recent testimony before the city council.

"The Intercept reported in February that the New York City Health and Hospitals Corporation, which operates a network of public health care facilities across the city, had paid Palantir almost $4 million since 2023 for data analysis services. #NYCHH says it used Palantir’s software to boost its efficiency in billing Medicaid and other public benefits, which included the automated scanning of patient health notes.

"The contract prompted #protests from #activists and local organizers who objected to the hospital system’s use of software from a company whose technology has facilitated lethal airstrike targeting, wide-reaching surveillance of American citizens, and deportation raids by Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents."

Read more:
https://theintercept.com/2026/03/24/palantir-new-york-city-hospitals-contract/

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/CRzWy

#USPol #DefundICE #DefundDHS #ICEOut