Dropsafe

by Alec Muffett

Tag: surveillance

Heather Burns on Twitter: “This piece … on the Russian digital surveillance system over 540 million teenagers’ accounts, which is presented as “suicide prevention” but is really political surveillance for the Kremlin, reads like a safety tech vendor’s best sales pitch.”

2024/03/27
Google Ordered To Identify Who Watched Certain YouTube Videos

2024/03/26
“The Inspector-General has found significant failings in the GCSB’s hosting of a foreign partner’s system”

2024/03/21
SIGINT Tours & the Cold War Network

2024/03/20
Satellite mapping reveals extensive industrial activity at sea | Nature

2024/03/19
“…who could well be infringing the rights of others” – it’s telling that some of the minds behind the OSA consider people first & foremost to be potential criminals

2024/03/06
Nevada AG Asks Court to Ban Meta from Providing End-to-End Encryption to Minors

2024/02/24
BREAKING: US State of Nevada attempting to BAN End-to-End Encryption for Teenagers, Kids (and: implicitly MANDATE age-verification) due to ostensible dangers to children that somehow vanish on 18th birthday

2024/02/23
You! Yes you! Are you an “evil privacy nerd?”

2024/02/16
Apple says UK could ‘secretly veto’ global privacy tools | …The Home Office said … that it also had to keep the country safe [from people being TOO secure]

2024/01/31
The Investigatory Powers (Amendment) Bill: further changes are still needed to ensure user trust and safety, and to mitigate potential conflicts of law

2024/01/31
British man acquitted over London-Spain flight bomb hoax | …SnapChat leaking messages to security services & supporting KOSA? Not a good combo for user privacy | HT @rebeccamkern

2024/01/30