Listen to @chlobemy from @edri explain #DataRetention and what is happening in the EU now:
„Metadata is as sensitive as the content of communications. There is this wrong idea – especially in the mind of policy-makers when we meet them – that metadata, so the data about the communications, is less sensitive than content data. This is this myth that we have to bust every time when we talk about this topic.“
https://fair.tube/w/4QCyVXns5fpUUqhkQRnu3b?start=2m25s
#npa149 #privacy #surveillance
This is a good time to wise-up on #DataRetention as the European Commission is asking for your opinion right now. They would like to propose mandatory data retention across the EU, so please take a few minutes to tell them 'no' in the official consultation.
You can find a guide for how to find and navigate the consultation in the blog of @edri:
https://edri.org/our-work/public-consultation-on-retention-of-data-by-service-providers-for-criminal-proceedings-answering-guide-for-civil-society-organisations-and-individuals/
Or if you speak German, you can also use our guide at @digiges:
https://digitalegesellschaft.de/2025/08/sagt-nein-zur-vorratsdatenspeicherung/
Deadline tomorrow (12 Sept.) midnight.
The European Commission has launched a public consultation to gather your views about the impact of data retention rules.
@pneutig @chlobemy @edri “We kill people based on metadata.”
– Former Director of the NSA and CIA, General Michael Hayden
https://www.justsecurity.org/10318/video-clip-director-nsa-cia-we-kill-people-based-metadata/
In a public debate with Just Security‘s David Cole at Johns Hopkins University, former Director of the NSA and CIA, General Michael Hayden made the provocative remark, “We Kill People Based on Metadata.” In a post on Saturday, David used Gen. Hayden’s statement as a pivot to discuss shortcomings in current congressional efforts to reform the NSA’s metadata […]
@aral @pneutig @chlobemy @edri
Atypical honesty.
Makes me reflect upon how metadata is itself an essential step along the path of those wishing to distance / disassociate https://mastodon.social/@urlyman/114964006839002784
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