Dropsafe

by Alec Muffett

Tag: surveillance

‘The Encryption Problem: Where “Design Liability” Leads’ | … IF YOU ARE CHEERING META LOSING 2X RECENT LAWSUITS YOU ARE SUPPORTING THE END OF ONLINE PRIVACY

2026/03/27
[Europe] voted today to end chat monitoring 1.0. This ends an exception that was used, in particular, by US Big Tech companies to monitor billions of people’s private messages without suspicion

2026/03/26
MEPs block tech firms from scanning for child sexual abuse material | POLITICO

2026/03/26
Remember that big win on ChatControl a couple of weeks ago? It turns out they didn’t like the result and they want to vote on it again, TODAY. Sorry.

2026/03/26
This cybersecurity tweet from @SciTechgovuk / DSIT is getting *brigaded* by people pointing out how the UK Government is actively undermining cybersecurity

2026/03/26
Investigation: UK spends millions on VPNs as government weighs ban for children | TechRadar

2026/03/23
Let Me Explain How a State Actor Could Perform a Denial-of-Service Attack on the Entire UK Government in the Wake of Ofcom “Online Safety Act” Client-Side Scanning

2026/03/20
Ofcom persist in pretending that 4chan are trading in the UK, rather than accepting that Britons are visiting a foreign website

2026/03/19
There is an entire genre of tricking AI customer service bots into doing work; but few are pointing out the obvious…

2026/03/13
A New Jerusalem

2026/03/09
TikTok incapable of delivering both user privacy *and* user safety, retains capability to surveil user communications

2026/03/04
“Governments should halt plans to roll out age checks on online services until privacy and security concerns are addressed, hundreds of academics said today”

2026/03/03