'China says facial recognition should not be forced on individuals'
#privacy
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📣 📣 ✊ Tanya O’Carrol WINS against #Meta:
Meta affirms right to OPT OUT of surveillance advertising, concedes in legal case!
Another blow to the unethical and unfair business models of Meta, Google and X: targeted ads and profiling are NOT something you must simply tolerate.
*DO NOT TRAVEL TO THE US!*
“‘I learned with concern that a French researcher,’ on a mission for the National Centre for Scientific Research (CNRS), ‘who was going to a conference near Houston was banned from entering American territory before being expelled,’ said the Minister of Higher Education and Research, Philippe Baptiste, in a statement sent to Agence France-Presse (AFP). ‘This measure was allegedly taken by the American authorities because this researcher's phone contained exchanges with colleagues and friendly relationships in which he expressed a personal opinion on the Trump administration's research policy,’ he added.”
#USA #fascism #EU #France #science #freedomOfSpeech #privacy #travelWarning
There is a growing sentiment that the US shouldn't be relied upon for the technologies that many people and businesses use every day.
While we prefer to focus on technical guarantees like strong end-to-end encryption over matters like jurisdiction, these issues still matter, and the United States certainly does not have a monopoly on the best technologies.
We've compiled a list of some of our favorite and highly recommended European privacy tools, to highlight how easy it can be to take your data back from American Big Tech companies: https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/03/19/private-european-alternatives/
#EUTech #EuropeanTech #Privacy #USElection2024 #EUCloud #EuropeanAlternatives #PrivacyGuides #Article
"US politicians and privacy campaigners are calling for the private hearing between Apple and the UK government regarding its alleged encryption-busting order to be aired in public."
https://www.theregister.com/2025/03/14/apple_uk_encryption_hearing/
"Colloquially, the IPA is referred to as the Snooper's Charter since its aims are to legally empower intelligence agencies with greater surveillance powers."
#Apple #encryption #cryptography #technology #UK #politics #uspol #ukpol #InvestigatoryPowersAct #privacy #Surveillance
30% of AI Chatbots share collected information with third parties:
Amazon is going to be disabling the privacy feature that processes voice commands locally on Echo devices at the end of this month. Instead, all voice commands will be sent to Amazon's cloud for processing.
I have already followed my own steps to remediate this:
1. Unplug Echo Device
2. Throw Echo Device in Trash
3. Done
"Google refuses to deny it received encryption order from UK government"
The UK’s encryption-breaking order for a backdoor into iCloud isn’t a one-off.
The secret hearing happening RIGHT NOW is bigger than just Apple. If the government wins, our right to privacy and security falls.
Other services will be hit.
https://therecord.media/google-refuses-to-deny-it-received-uk-tcn
Sign our petition ➡️ https://you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/keep-our-apple-data-encrypted
#e2ee #encryption #apple #google #privacy #security #cybersecurity #ukpol #ukpolitics #tech
“There is significant public interest in knowing when and on what basis the UK government believes that it can compel a private company to undermine the privacy and security of its customers.”
ORG, Big Brother Watch and Index on Censorship call for the Tribunal into the UK government's secret order for Apple to break encryption to be held in public.
The case happens TOMORROW.
Read more ⬇️
#encryption #e2ee #privacy #security #ukpolitics #ukpol #cybersecurity #apple
🚨 BREAKING 🚨
ORG, Big Brother Watch and Index on Censorship call for the secret Tribunal into the UK Home Office's encryption-breaching order against Apple to be held in PUBLIC 🧑⚖️
There's a significant public interest in knowing why the UK government believes it can compel a private company to undermine the privacy and security of its users.
Read our joint letter ⬇️
#encryption #e2ee #Apple #investigatorypowersact #privacy #security #cybersecurity #ukpolitics #ukpol
Didn't know I still have Signal from fdroid installed but I don't have a phone number or hell, anybody to talk to in private 🤣
Just one of the downsides of not having friends I guess. Regardless, I shall carry on like I've been doing for 5+ years now! It's hard but c'est la vie.
I do believe I'll outgrow it alone. Doesn't matter how many years it'll take but I believe the pain will go away soon.
#fdroid #signal #foss #freesoftware #opensource #privacy #android #linux
New Privacy Guides article 🔒☂️
by me:
If you care about data privacy,
You must also care for the privacy of others.
We often talk about what we can do to improve our own privacy, but we don't talk enough about what we should be doing to improve the privacy of others.
Together, we have to built a culture that normalizes respecting everyone's privacy.
Here are a few ideas to start: https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/03/10/the-privacy-of-others/
#PrivacyGuides #Privacy #HumanRights #DigitalRights #Consent
First #CISA, now the Swedish Armed Forces: Officials start to understand why we all need #encryption
Let's keep fighting for #privacy 💪
👉 https://tuta.com/blog/swedish-armed-forces-require-signal-encrypted-messages
