Dropsafe

by Alec Muffett

Tag: surveillance

‘We’ll fight together’: Americans planning to sue Ofcom over the Online Safety Act | LBC

2025/07/31
I asked ChatGPT about the availability of VPN software in every instance of Linux, and about how the State might try to prevent its use, plus how much it costs to “roll your own” VPN

2025/07/31
Zero Knowledge Proofs Alone Are Not a Digital ID Solution to Protecting User Privacy | Electronic Frontier Foundation

2025/07/29
Nigel Farage urges minister to apologise for Jimmy Savile online safety claim | BBC News | …I can’t forgive Kyle for making me agree with Farage, but this legislation is not fit for purpose

2025/07/29
Reality bites the UK government’s push to undermine end-to-end encryption | Element

2025/07/22
UK backing down on Apple encryption backdoor after pressure from US | Ars Technica

2025/07/22
Wikimedia Foundation Challenges UK Online Safety Act Regulations | Wikimedia Foundation

2025/07/19
“National security” only ever means what the government wants it to mean, without limiting principle – Ari Cohn

2025/07/07
The EU wants to decrypt your private data by 2030 | TechRadar

2025/07/06
IN CASE YOU MISSED IT: aren’t you glad that we don’t (yet) live in a world where on-device client side surveillance triggers report you to the police for using words like “bomb” or “uranium” in Signal & WhatsApp chats?

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
If the state deploys infrastructural internet services with logging & content filtering, those things are surveillance & censorship because they are done by the state

2025/06/20