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Mark Zuckerberg and others agreed to pay out an $8 billion lawsuit settlement over the Cambridge Analytica scandal, just days before they were set to testify: https://www.france24.com/en/americas/20250717-zuckerberg-settles-8-billion-lawsuit-over-cambridge-analytica-scandal-avoids-testifying

Zuckerberg settles $8 billion lawsuit over Cambridge Analytica scandal, avoids testifying

Mark Zuckerberg and current and former Meta executives agreed on Thursday to settle a $8 billion shareholder lawsuit alleging the company’s directors failed to prevent billions of dollars in fines and legal costs stemming from repeated Facebook user privacy violations. The Federal Trade Commission in 2019 fined Facebook $5 billion in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica data harvesting scandal.

FRANCE 24

Hashira Nov 12

Nov 11

I hate that I can basically recycle my posts about Chat Control every month or so. These lobbyists are extremely motivated.

Let's show them that we are
even more motivated than them to protect privacy rights, human rights, and democracy! ✊🔒

You know what you have to do:
👉 https://fightchatcontrol.eu/

• Recent news:
"Just before a decisive meeting in Brussels, digital rights expert and former Member of the European Parliament Dr. Patrick Breyer is sounding the alarm. Using a “deceptive sleight of hand,” a mandatory and expanded Chat Control is being pushed through the back door, in a form even more intrusive than the originally rejected plan. The legislative package could be greenlit tomorrow in a closed-door EU working group session."

#ChatControl #Privacy #HumanRights #DigitalRights #Democracy #EUpol

Fight Chat Control - Protect Digital Privacy in the EU

Learn about the EU Chat Control proposal and contact your representatives to protect digital privacy and encryption.

Hashira Oct 26

Somebody found a #Bitcoin block by solo mining again! Block 920440 was mined exactly how mining is supposed to be done - the person used their own node and their own instance of public pool. No 3rd parties.

With a hashrate of 103 Th/s, they found a block whose hash satisfies a difficulty of 2.08P (!!!)

This is an extremely unlikely event. It would take on average 2700 years of 24/7 mining at that speed to find such a block.

And yet it happened! Tick tock, next block.

Hashira Oct 21

Oct 21

Today October 21st is
Global Encryption Day! 🔒🎉

This is a good time to remember that encryption is essential to online security and digital privacy.

Despite some governments pushing hard to weaken it, we must remind them that we all need encryption, and especially end-to-end encryption, to stay safe online 💚

Privacy is a human right
and end-to-end encryption is one of the best tool we have to enforce that right.

https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/04/11/encryption-is-not-a-crime/

#GlobalEncryptionDay #Encryption #E2EE #Privacy #RootForE2EE

Encryption Is Not a Crime

Encryption is not a crime, encryption protects us all. Encryption, and especially end-to-end encryption, is an essential tool to protect everyone online. Attempts to undermine encryption are an attack to our fundamental right to privacy and an attack to our inherent right to security and safety.

Privacy Guides

Hashira Oct 18