Canada passes Bill C-22, expanding lawful access powers for law enforcement to obtain digital information under judicial warrants. 📜
The law enables secret metadata retention orders and system access requirements for providers, raising ongoing encryption and oversight concerns. 🔐
🔗 https://globalnews.ca/news/11911957/lawful-access-bill-passes-privacy-liberals-tinfoil-hat/
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GrapheneOS notes Android 17 “sort of” support, reflecting early compatibility work rather than a fully stable rollout across devices. 📱
It tracks Android 17 privacy upgrades like stronger permissions and encryption while maintaining its hardened AOSP-based security model. 🔐
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Meta is testing face-recognition software for its smart glasses app, built with Rank One, a surveillance-tech supplier tied to Pentagon use. 🤖
It is developed for internal use in Meta’s smart glasses app and uses biometric data stored on users’ phones while drawing on Rank One’s surveillance tools. 📱
🔗 https://www.wired.com/story/meta-rank-one-computing-face-recognition-smart-glasses/
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"John Edwards' departure is a chance for the [UK] Government to appoint a regulator with teeth, and reset the regulators' approach of providing data protection in name only."
"Parliament must ensure that the future Commission is run by professionals who want the law enforced, including against government data failures."
🗣️ ORG's @jim.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0eyq7rnn22o
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A law only works if it's enforced.
Yet time and time again, the UK Information Commissioner's Office has failed to protect our data rights.
Our privacy relies on a regulator that will take action against the government and private sector at a time of escalating threats.
We need to #ResetTheICO.
Sign and share the petition ⬇️
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/reset-ico
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Sign the petition! The ICO is failing us. It's time for a reset. Time and time again, the ICO has failed to protect our data rights. They failed to formally investigate the Ministry of Defence over the leak of a spreadsheet detailing 19,000 people who were fleeing the Talibans – the worst data breach in UK history. They ignored thousands of complaints from the public and allowed Meta to press ahead with plans to scrape its users data. They ignored ORG and 70 other organisations who raised concerns about serious data breaches arising from the Home Office’s e-visa scheme.
The door is slowly being levered open on some of Reform's secrets:
https://goodlawproject.org/crowdfunder/help-force-reform-to-respect-our-data-rights/