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Internet privacy advocate | Volunteer Signal beta tester | Veteran Major Incident Manager (MIM)

I just made a $10 donation to Signal. It's not a lot, but I'm sure the Devs appreciate anything. I think you should to, if you use it regularly.

#Signal #PSA

The Ontario Police got a court authorization to use spyware (they call it โ€œonโ€‘device investigative toolโ€ or ODIT) to investigate a car theft ring.

We need more of these cases to be public. Keeping the use of spyware secret is not doing authorities any favors. This is taxpayer's money at work, and being so invasive, there needs to be checks and balances, and a public discussion.

If we only see the abuses, which there have been many, we can't have a serious and fair debate about the use of spyware.

https://www.thestar.com/news/ontario/ontario-police-are-using-spyware-that-lets-them-remotely-take-over-your-smartphone-theyre-fighting-to-keep-almost-everything-about-it-secret/article_56ef6906-4008-48ec-8b4c-d56e57a00ea5.html

This is terrifying.

White House to host taxpayer-funded Christian Nationalist rally in D.C.
The โ€œRededicate 250โ€ event blends patriotism, government power, and conservative Christianity into one disturbing spectacle

https://www.friendlyatheist.com/p/white-house-to-host-taxpayer-funded

#nazi #chrisriannationalism #fedi #fediverse #trump #maga #gop

White House to host taxpayer-funded Christian Nationalist rally in D.C.

The โ€œRededicate 250โ€ event blends patriotism, government power, and conservative Christianity into one disturbing spectacle

Friendly Atheist

To help protect Signal users from phishing and social engineering attacks, weโ€™ve introduced additional confirmations and educational messaging in the app to help people better detect fraudulent profiles, especially message requests from scammers posing as Signal.

More changes are on the way.

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Cartoon by John Deering.
#USpol
Police are using the surveillance state to stalk "love interests" because there really is no difference between the part of my job where I fight state surveillance and the part where I fight domestic abuse: https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/may/02/flock-police-surveillance-tech-birds-iran-press-freedom
Police are using surveillance tech to stalk love interests. Dystopia, here we come

The tech company Flock has 80,000 cameras across the US โ€“ and a report finds some officers are taking advantage

The Guardian