At what point while dreaming up utopic futures where robots perform all the menial hard labor for no money leaving humanity to pursue meaningful lives of leisure writing music and making art did my parents generation fuck up and instead create the opposite
Digital #SelfDefense is just one component. Stopping here would be naïve. It takes #sovereignty, too (owning your data), and #citizenship (getting involved with policy making), otherwise public spaces will just wither under growing #surveillance.
When the #EU started discussing the #GDPR, lots of people were "sure" it would never make a difference. Now it's in effect, we have court rulings like #SchremsI & #SchremsII, plus legal action taken by orgs like @noybeu.
@scarfolk That tweet from the Met is strangely authoritarian in tone, far from an attitude of service to a population whose differing views are to be protected even-handedly.
The tweet's implied threat, and its realization in the subsequent arrest Graham Smith for gathering their placards, is wrong, and should be condemned whether you agree with the protest or not.
This kind of thing from law enforcement, combined with the role of #surveillance in the UK, is worrying.
If there isn't an app that distorts your selfies a tiny little bit (just enough to confuse the face recognition algorithm), can somebody please develop one?
Just like the tools that remofe metadata from pictures before uploading...
The best antisurveillance is probably to flood the web with distorted portraits of yourself.
I have to admit that my mother gave me this idea. She doesn't even know how to use properly her smartphone but is my countersurveillance hero:
She gets customer cards from every supermarket, then swaps them with all kind of other people to prank their algorithms of customer preferences 🤣
Even the baddest of LimeWire and KaZaA spywares could have only dreamt of being as nasty as today's genuine operating systems and browsers are straight out of the box - and people even pay to get them!
@Mastodon This is great news for those seeking to replicate the experience of #BlackTwitter here, and to better position the #Fediverse to offer a decent experience to non-techies that has NO #surveillance#surveillancecapitalism and no #Ads. As long as it can be done in a way that protects this decentralized system from #VCTakeover, spam and disinfo.
Some of you know I have been working on non-profit funding to create an organisation ("IFTAS") to support moderators and admins. This is a non-profit entity that employs moderators and advisors to improve the tools and policies we have access to, and to present a strong voice to platform developers describing the tools and features needed to conduct the work.
Und auch deshalb ist die Digitalisierung, die früher oder später unweigerlich auf eine Post-Privacy-Gesellschaft herausläuft, in erster Linie eine Dystopie:
"As abortion bans across the nation are implemented and enforced, law enforcement is turning to social media platforms to build cases to prosecute women seeking abortions or abortion-inducing medication – and online platforms like Google and Facebook are helping. "
Google und Facebook/Meta geben Nutzer:innendaten an die US-amerikanische Polizei weiter, damit diese Menschen verfolgen kann, die Informationen zu Abtreibungen suchen.
Und das ist nur ein Beispiel. Morgen kann schon illegal sein, was heute noch legal ist und etwaige Datenschutzgesetze können auch in Europa gelockert werden, während die Überwachungsinfrastruktur, Digitalzwänge/Abhängigkeiten und der Zugriff auf Gesundheitsdaten immer invasiver werden.
The biopolitical surveillance regime - friendly sponsered by Twitter's official partners
U.S. Marshals Spied on Abortion Protesters Using Dataminr
"Twitter’s “official partner” monitored the precise time and location of post-Roe demonstrations, internal emails show.
Dataminr, an “official partner” of Twitter, alerted a federal law enforcement agency to pro-abortion protests and rallies in the wake of the reversal of Roe v. Wade, according to documents obtained by The Intercept through a Freedom of Information Act request."
Google ist sooooo selbstlos, dass es seine überwachungsdystopische Vision sogar 'Selfish' nennt.
"Google’s Selfish Ledger is an unsettling vision of Silicon Valley social engineering.
This internal video from 2016 shows a Google concept for how total data collection could reshape society"
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Das 40,00€ teurer gewordene Nachfolgeticket zum 9-Euro-Ticket soll Daten melken. Zwar solle das Ticket übergangsweise nicht nur für Smartphones erhältlich sein sondern auch auf Chip-Karten und kurzzeitig auf Papier mit QR-Code, aber wichtig scheint es den Regierenden vor allem anderen, dass mit dem 49€-Ticket Echtzeit-Verkehrsdaten erhoben werden können.
Positiv klingt zunächst: "Es werde nicht gespeichert, wer von A nach B fährt, sondern nur, wie stark die Verkehrsmittel ausgelastet sind. Für die Fahrgäste könnte das ein Nutzen sein, weil die Verkehrsunternehmen so für ausreichend Kapazitäten sorgen könnten."
Allerdings: Das Ticket wird wohl nur als Abo personalisiert erworben werden können, so dass darüber anfallende Personendaten zukünftig schnell integriert werden könnten. Mit Hinblick auf den aktuellen massiven Ausbau des Überwachungsstaats und der Kontrollgesellschaft in Deutschland und der EU (digitale Personenkennziffer/RegMod, Chatkontrolle, Identifizierungspflicht, Biometrie, eIDAS uvm) ist es doch auch gar nicht die Frage ob, sondern nur wann und mit welchem Vorwand (Anschläge, Pandemie, Jugendschutz, Wahlkampf) personalisierte Datenerfassung und Polizeizugriffe kommen werden, sobald die digitale Kontrollinfrastruktur erst einmal errichtet wurde.
Overview of police investigations tied to a combative demo against mega-basins - Zine (EN/FR)
"Two people alleged to have damaged a water reservoir in Charente-Maritime[2] are on trial this Thursday in La Rochelle. Phone bills, tailing and geolocation... To identify them, the investigators have deployed methods that are out of the ordinary.
Suspects geolocated in real time, their tax, social security or health insurance statements dissected, their telephone bills analyzed in minute detail, their social circle identified; a woman followed and photographed by police even though her cell phone did not locate her at the scene of the crime (she will be exonerated)... This array of methods was deployed by the police in order to find the people suspected of having damaged an agricultural basin in November 2021, in Cram-Chaban (Charente-Maritime). Even though this water reservoir, which was supposed to be used for irrigation, could not be used and was ultimately judged to be illegal."
Minimizing DNA Traces During Riotous Moments #Zine
"[Y]ou can be pretty certain that whenever arson is involved, a DNA forensics team will be involved too. [...] We want to briefly summarize some practical considerations. By arming ourselves with some preparation and an accurate understanding of how DNA is transferred, it is possible to drastically limit the amount of DNA we leave behind."
"...John Scott-Railton, a senior researcher at the #Toronto-based internet watchdog #Citizen Lab. “Once you get it, is very unlikely it will ever go away.”
Example: #Israel
"...feared internal security agency, the #Shin#Bet, was using mass #surveillance technology mobilized for #coronavirus contact tracing, against #Israeli residents and citizens for purposes entirely unrelated to COVID-19...
Germanys government just altered its position on #chatcontrol, the current total #surveillance proposal of the #EU. This is important to you given the main developers and maintainers are situated here.
If this comes through (probably), they'll be legally obligated to include the following into the code (and european instances would HAVE to run it):
「 Later, with the help of a translator, he scrutinized every bit of text on that screen. One set of characters, the translator explained, suggested each visitor was automatically sorted into categories: age, sex, wearing glasses, smiling. When Honovich pointed at the fifth category and asked, “What’s this?” the translator replied, “minority.” 」
— @WIRED