Pro humans knowing where the controls are and how to use them. Anti systems deployed to replace human judgement and nuance.
Stable Diffusion image of "confused human background blue sky"
🛬 Plane lands. Flight mode off.
💬 “Welcome to Italy! Use your mobile plan just like at home.”
8 years of free EU roaming – we've come a long way:
→ 2000s: €0.50–€1/min calls
→ 2007: roaming caps
→ 2017: the end of roaming charges
→ 2022: the improved “Roam like at home” pack extended to 2032, bringing:
🌐 Fast 5G access across the EU
💰 Protection from unexpected charges
🆘 Better access to emergency services
Fair for operators. Free for you.
We are asking the UK government to confirm the existence of the TCN to allow public discussion, scrutiny and accountability of these actions.
No democracy should ever allow for decisions that have onerous consequences for billions of people to be taken in secret.
A month ago, we found out via The Washington Post that the UK government has used its Powers to issue a notice to Apple to hand over encrypted iCloud data, threatening the privacy and security of users all over the world.
This notice was via a TCN, and they represent a dangerous, disproportionate and intrusive surveillance power available to the government under the current UK surveillance regime.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2025/02/07/apple-encryption-backdoor-uk/
🆕 We’re demanding transparency on the UK government’s ‘Technical Capability Notices’ (TCN) - a secret power that gives itself the right to issue secret orders to any company, undermining the security of everyone across the world.
We believe the Government's position of refusing to confirm or deny the existence of the Technical Capability Notice or acknowledge Apple's appeal is untenable and violates principles of transparency and accountability.
I will not stop advocating for more transparency with this situation through all avenues I have available to me. I will not stop advocating for others who have had their accounts just as unceremoniously banned.
I will not be transferring ownership of the Pods plugins back into my account at this time. I no longer trust that my account will remain activated and that normal procedures will be followed in the future. They will remain in the safe and capable care of one of our contributors.
Today my WordPress.org account was disabled unexpectedly. I did not request that and I have received no communications with reasoning ahead of time or at the time of that being disabled (like most people who were deactivated on Slack or .org disabled).
This puts the @pods project at risk on .org since we've used the security best-practice of having release confirmations enabled on the Pods plugins on .org since they added that feature. To confirm a release, you must log into .org
European Commission
Privacy International
Joseph Lorenzo Hall, PhD
Mark Nottingham
Lukasz Olejnik
SKC 🏳️🌈