Yesterday, outside the UK national policing conference members of the #SafetyNotSurveillance coalition went to deliver a simple message…
Communities don't want more surveillance. They want real safety.
The technologies being promoted inside the summit fuel racism, enable unchecked policing power, and threaten all our rights. They must be stopped.
Together we can build safety rooted in dignity, not surveillance.
https://peertube.openrightsgroup.org/w/uZgpQDgMsc6YnJNuoXpvjF
This could be the biggest rollback of digital rights in EU history, pushed through opaque processes that sidestep democratic oversight.
If the EU genuinely wants to help businesses comply, it should support enforcement and provide guidance, not dismantle the frameworks that protect people and provide legal certainty.
📣 Fundamental rights are NOT “red tape": we urge the @EUCommission to defend, not dismantle, the laws that keep people at the centre of Europe’s digital future.
Europe’s digital rights are on the chopping block.
We - 127 CSOs & trade unions - are sounding the alarm over the European Commission’s forthcoming #DigitalOmnibus proposals.
Behind “simplification” lies a deregulation agenda that threatens the EU's digital framework - GDPR, ePrivacy, AI Act, DSA & DMA - the very laws that keep our data safe, hold govts & corporations accountable, prevent AI from determining our life chances, & protect us from mass surveillance.
✉️ : https://edri.org/our-work/forthcoming-digital-omnibus-would-mark-point-of-no-return/
Imagine what a piece of shit person you have to be for Jeffrey #Epstein to say you’re the worst person he ever knew.
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https://www.npr.org/2025/11/12/nx-s1-5605582/epstein-files-release-trump-email-grijalva-massie
#ReleaseTheEpsteinFiles #epsteinFiles #epsteinList #coverup #EpsteinShutdown
I feared this day would come:
Trump puts human rights organisations on sanctions list and forces YouTube to delete their accounts, thereby erasing 700 videos documenting Israeli war crimes.
As a political commentator on YouTube, this news is profoundly troubling for me. And yes, I clearly need a plan B.
https://theintercept.com/2025/11/04/youtube-google-israel-palestine-human-rights-censorship/
@[email protected] I think one of the reasons I never really got into retrocomputing - despite nerding out with a C64 or an Amiga sure did feel a lot more fun than computing in the current day - is that what made it feel so great back then was that it felt like I could just make out the contours of the future, and it looked like it would be amazing. So much creativity waiting to be unlocked! We'd make kinds of art not even conceived yet! We'd be making wonderful discoveries! Now I live in that future, and it fucking sucks. The fruit of all those great discoveries have turned out to be mostly figuring out new ways to spy on people and manipulate them - and now, to declare all-out war against even the concept of human creativity. My C64 still runs (I no longer have a working Amiga), but playing around with it won't bring back that feeling of a promised future of wonders - all I see is that it turned out to become a present full of horrors instead. I'm sure part of all this - from a purely personal perspective - is just that I've hit the point where I'm supposed to be having my regularly-scheduled midlife crisis. "Did I waste my entire life?" sure does feel to fit the stereotype. I've thought about trying to retrain to do something else, but I honestly have no idea what that could even be. I'm disabled, I'm getting old, and there's not a whole lot I can do that anyone would want to pay me for that isn't related to software development. (I'm currently an embedded dev; prior to that I taught CS at a community college for ten years.)
Good news! #ChatControl has been withdrawn by the Danish EU Presidency after failing to gather support. For those who spent countless hours campaigning for #stopchatcontrol, thank you for fighting with us every step of the way.
https://www.dr.dk/nyheder/politik/efter-tysk-kritik-hummelgaard-dropper-chatkontrol-forslag
1/3 🚨 On 5 November, MEPs in the LIBE Committee of the European Parliament will vote on a new #Europol Regulation, part of the EU’s so-called “Facilitators Package.”
Behind the rhetoric of fighting “smuggling,” this reform expands Europol’s #MassSurveillance powers & threatens #FundamentalRights
Here’s how 👇🏾
This is a great point. Nazi Germany was not allowed to play soccer until 1950, but Netanyahu can kill 70,000 Palestinians and take part in the 2026 World Cup hosted by Canada, Mexico, and the US?
Now would be a good time for Canadians to say, "Not in our backyard!"
https://mastodon.online/@Geri/115360118294951459
After World War II, Germany was banned from international football competitions, and its football associations were dissolved. It wasn't until 1950 that Germany was allowed to participate again in international matches #ISRAEL should be treated in the same manner Xx
On October 14, the EU will vote on the so-called Chat Control — a dystopian law which will require messaging apps to facilitate mass surveillance.
President of Signal Foundation Meredith Whittaker says, if the EU adopts the law, her organisation will pull their Signal app from the EU market.
I am both angered and worried by the prospects. Encrypted communication is absolutely crucial, when I speak to sources in countries where people are killed for talking.
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In den kommenden Tagen wird die Bundesregierung entscheiden, wie sie am 14. Oktober in der EU zur Chatkontrolle abstimmt. Eines ist klar: Kommt die Chatkontrolle, wird es keine verschlüsselte und sichere Kommunikation mehr geben.
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