your auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦Sep 11

❝ Live Translation with AirPods is not going to be available in the EU.❞
https://mastodon.social/@mysk/115185815044652443

GOOD!

and everybody else, especially Americans, should NOT use it either.

Apple will have to warehouse your conversations and make them available to the United States government thanks to the infamous #FISA aka Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.

it is criminal for #Apple #iOs #tech “journalists” to not question how this wouldn’t be more stalkerware available to #USgov to give to #ICE …🧵

Show threadyour auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦

here is the standard intro to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act put together by the US Congress:

❝ Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) | Congress.gov | Library of Congress - https://www.congress.gov/crs-product/IF11451

here is the Wikipedia page with a general timeline of changes and controversies involving #FISA

❝ Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Intelligence_Surveillance_Act

here is the #ACLU American Civil Liberties Union

❝ Fix FISA - End Warrantless Wiretapping https://www.aclu.org/documents/fix-fisa-end-warrantless-wiretapping …🧵

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Show threadyour auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦Sep 11

here is a VICE Mag article on #FISA from 2017, featuring Marci Wheeler ―aka @emptywheel @emptywheel.bsky.social ― whom i consider the pre-eminent expert on everything #FISA and surveillance under USA law

❝ The NSA's 12-Year Struggle to Follow the Law - https://www.vice.com/en/article/the-nsas-12-year-struggle-to-follow-the-law/

notice this article came out during Cheetolini’s first coup; exactly because his fascist handlers were dismantling the safeguards for unfettered wiretapping that were put in place under the Obama admin …🧵

The NSA’s 12-Year Struggle to Follow the Law

A change requested by the Trump administration will allow the NSA to keep information it acquired illegally.

VICE
Show threadyour auntifa liza 🇵🇷 🦛 🦦Sep 11

and lest we forget, Apple’s Chief Executive Officer, Tim Cook, has become the face of the #techbro fascist supplicant during this second Trump coup:
https://mastodon.social/@blogdiva/115175766706618302

the darling of the #infosec community, the past 9 months are filled with far too much evidence that #Apple is a safety and security risk for all, especially the low-to-zero tech skills consumers it attracts with their closed and “trust me bro” hardware & software ecosystem.

it’s time to look at Apple with critical eyes. /🧵

Show threadHumToTableSep 11
@blogdiva I have owned Apple products continuously since my first Macintosh Plus in 1987. Today, Apple has gotten on my last nerve.
Show threadahoyboyhoySep 11
@HumToTable @blogdiva plenty of alternatives for almost any of their products and this is a good place for advice!
Show threada66ey 🇪🇺🏳️‍🌈 she/herSep 11
@blogdiva time was when Woz was ousted out