Dropsafe

by Alec Muffett

Tag: privacy

In case you missed it: “By Default, Signal Doesn’t Recall”

2025/06/20
GDPR and the Intersection of Security and Privacy | JJ Katz | …corporate Deep Packet Inspection vs: GDPR, reconsidered…

2025/06/19
How to Protest Safely in the Age of Surveillance | WIRED

2025/06/12
IMPT: STREAMING TODAY at 1000 Eastern, 1500 UK, 1600 Paris: US Gov’t obliquely discusses *sanctioning* UK for attempting to backdoor Apple iCloud

2025/06/05
I don’t have official confirmation, but I’m unilaterally declaring dibs on inspiration for this WhatsApp advertising campaign…

2025/06/01
“OpenAI, defender of user privacy” – not what you would typically expect to hear from civil society, but in this case it’s true…

2025/05/30
This video is an absolute perfect masterclass in open source intelligence gathering. Or cyber stalking. Both. Whatever. MUSTWATCH

2025/05/12
Google rolling out auto-restart security feature to Android phones | One of the things I really love…

2025/04/15
If Age Verification is to be done at all, it should be like this: a bearer-token signed by the App Store, Browser Provider or Device, and trusted by the Age-Consumer e.g. Age-Restricted Service Vendor

2025/03/05
Twitter Poll: ‘Do you think Apple would be right to withdraw from the market a “strong privacy” product that contains a Government backdoor?’

2025/02/21
The latest spin on the Home Office demand for a backdoor into Apple iCloud/iMessage storage is “…it’s not a backdoor, we just want existing exploitable weaknesses to NOT be removed”

2025/02/10
I hope one day that our Online Digital Rights, Civil Society, Safety & Privacy advocates will remember that “online harms” fall into *three* categories:

2025/02/07