Fresh #bigtech hell - this just popped up in my work: #MicrosoftTeams cloning your voice 🤢

Do NOT opt in to that... obviously.

The Resisting Big Tech Empires event yesterday was great! So many people showed up to our workshop that quite a few had to stand 😳

And we shut down the surveillance settings in all their phones during the session 🤘

And a huge bonus for me was getting to meet Cory Doctorow in person!

The organisers were great: https://www.globaljustice.org.uk/ Thank you to Daisy for inviting us and helping on the day!

You can find all the stuff we talked about at our website https://www.rebeltechalliance.org/ and our blog.

Sold out! But I saw that there will be a live stream https://www.globaljustice.org.uk/event/resisting-big-tech-empires/

Probably that's just the main stage, not our (Rebel Tech Alliance) talk, as that's in a side area called the Annex. But you'll be able to catch Cory Doctorow's talk at 4.30pm, which is right after us.

This turned out to be a fitting strap line, given the Epstein files connection.

(British people will know what I mean)

#USpol #trump

If you're in #London next weekend come to see us at the Resisting Big Tech Empires event on Saturday!

Saturday 25th April 11am-6pm, @ South Bank University

@pluralistic is headlining (on at 4.30pm) and we (Rebel Tech Alliance) are on at 3pm

We'll be going through all the best alternatives to #bigtech apps, and discussing how to use them.

Tickets are FREE! https://www.globaljustice.org.uk/event/resisting-big-tech-empires/

Please boost!

https://www.rebeltechalliance.org/

#privacy #surveillance #surveillancecapitalism #resistingbigtechempires

Here's what the Rebel Tech Alliance website does for you :

https://www.rebeltechalliance.org/

(Screen grab from our home page)

#privacy #bigtech #ethicaltech #broligarchy #surveillance #surveillancecapitalism

I just updated the RTA blog post about #Meta with this nugget of info that I had overlooked: they have your #WhatsApp #encryption keys.... 🤦🏼‍♂️

So they can say "your content is end-to-end-encrypted" until the cows come home, but they can still access it whenever they want! (and they always want to, because they are an #advertising and #AI business, and supplier-of- #surveillance -info-to-the-cops business)

FYI Signal do NOT have your encryption keys.

Original blog post: https://blog.rebeltechalliance.org/know-your-enemy-pt-2-meta/

This is what I've been saying: #bigtech wants us to #RentIntelligenceOwnIgnorance

Source: the book Rewiring Democracy by Bruce Shneier

Amazing site that tracks T-rump's actions and classifies them.

You can see he's bored of hollowing out the state and weakening civil rights, and has moved more into aggressive foreign policy.

Corruption and undermining democracy are a steady constant.

https://www.trumpactiontracker.info/

Are the courts going to push back, especially after the ICE shootings, Venezuela and potential aggression against Greenland?

All of it aided merrily by #bigtech of course.

#uspol