Video surveillance in use

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Most people think about privacy way too little. To compensate, I think about privacy way too much.

If you're a respectful entity, feel free to interact with me.

Specieshuman, but often confused for a robot by Cloudflare
Ageat least 20
Pronouns"they" / "them" / "their" / "theirs" / "themself", or any other

More than 300 cameras damaged or stolen in four months #London
"(...)
Over four months, the Met received 339 reports of camera cables being damaged, or cameras being stolen or obscured.
The actual number of cameras affected is likely to be even higher as one report can represent multiple cameras.
Unofficial data mapping the location of disabled cameras suggests that almost 500 cameras could have been affected."

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-66535086

#Surveillance #UK #videoSurveillance #Sabotage #DirectAction

Ulez: More than 300 cameras damaged or stolen in four months

Unofficial data mapping the damage to cameras suggests almost 500 have been vandalised or stolen.

BBC News

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@eff I think this is worth repeating:

> The mobile network does not encrypt calls or text messages end-to-end, nor does it conceal your location.

It *could* do these things. We have technologies that can do these things. But mobile networks just don't do it.

Imagine Star Wars, but, every droid in the galaxy is literally run by the Empire, they talk home to Coruscant every night for software updates, and the Rebel Alliance thinks this is just fine and doesn't understand how come they keep losing key battles

That's our future if we don't change the trajectory we're on.

I don't know how to make anyone who matters understand that.

It's International Women's Day!

And this bot is on fire, automatically posting the pay gap for all the orgs tweeting how supportive they are of women.

Great bit of open data activism...

https://twitter.com/PayGapApp

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Die neuesten Tweets von Gender Pay Gap Bot (@PayGapApp). Tweeting Gender Pay Gap Data for #InternationalWomensDay and #PayGapDataDay 👀 Data from: https://t.co/XZFosGfYm8 #IWD2022 #BreakTheBias

User accounts are so often a method of tracking users, yet they are not a requirement for running most internet services. #FDroid #Jitsi #CleanInsights #Wikipedia #Briar #FirefoxFocus all provide shining examples of working without accounts. https://f-droid.org/2022/02/28/no-user-accounts-by-design.html
No user accounts, by design | F-Droid - Free and Open Source Android App Repository

Ethics has been central to the F-Droid community from the beginning, with afocus on free software, privacy and usercontrol. A key part of F-Droid’s design is...

The phone number bulldozer keeps excluding unphoned from social life.

The classifieds platform ebay-kleinanzeigen wants me to give them my phone number, or I can't use the web interface to contact sellers.

I'm not one to fall for this, and usage terms don't mention it. So I tried to complain to them directly.

Of course, there's no contact form.

#privacy #phonenumber #exclusion

@[email protected] @[email protected] @[email protected] 🇬🇧 #DigitalServicesAct negotiations: Great support from 70+ human & digital rights organisations incl @[email protected], @[email protected] and @[email protected] on

#surveillanceAds
#encryption
#DataRetention

https://edri.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/Open-letter_INT-eng_ready.pdf

Let’s fight to convince Commission and Council!

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