Dropsafe

by Alec Muffett

Tag: privacy

Preston Byrne on Ofcom and government goals to turn age verification into a “KYC before Communication” obligation

2025/08/29
UK sought broad access to Apple customers’ data, court filing shows | FT

2025/08/29
Digital Rights Management (DRM) doesn’t work. Also: draft California law mulls mandatory DRM to preserve image provenance metadata, breaks Signal Messenger

2025/08/27
Canadian “privacy is bad” activists are trying to undermine @torproject by posting an extended propaganda rant in The Guardian, a newspaper which maintains its own dark web address

2025/08/25
I don’t wanna rain on the parade but it’s entirely possible that the UK Government vs: APPLE iCloud BACKDOOR STORY IS STILL A THING

2025/08/21
Ban-Happy Kid-Ban Baroness Beeban Kidron thanks self & peers, stabs Ofcom, declares BOTH “mission accomplished!” AND “…kids *should* rebel, at least we’ve taught them to use VPNs…”

2025/08/18
A “political blackmail” – the EU Parliament is pressing for new mandatory scanning of your private chats | TechRadar

2025/08/07
[ai-control] prevent robots.txt entries from becoming law | Brewster Kahle of the Internet Archive, weighs in re: legally enforceable statements in robots.txt

2025/07/23
Bluesky, Britain, Age-Verification, Age-Attestation, and Railway Trains | …what child-protection measures British Civil Society *ought* to be demanding

2025/07/11
Unverified report: 14yo loses access, banned from Google/YouTube because Google Photos includes video of self as baby in bathtub

2025/07/08
Julian Sanchez: “If your law is good when there are good people in office, but dangerous when there are bad people in office, your law is bad”

2025/06/24
Britain: Police may grab your {phone, laptop} and legally use on-device credentials to go trawl Facebook, GMail, iCloud, Dropbox (etc) — WITHOUT WARRANT

2025/06/24