@_elena Such a good news! At last! ๐
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No, I don't want generative AI anywhere.No, I don't want generative AI anywhere.
I don't want AI to write.
I don't want AI to draw.
I don't want AI to learn.
And I certainly don't want AI to make any decisions for me or about me.Now our governments (using OUR money) are following the AI tech bros into the AI-Hell pit! ๐ซ
Please stop this madness already!
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We need more than 2 popular and accessible types of mobile OS ๐ฑWe need more than 2 popular and accessible types of mobile OS ๐ฑ
We need more than 2 popular and accessible types of desktop OS ๐ฅ๏ธ
We need more than 2 popular and accessible types of browsers
We need more than 2 popular high-capacity cloud services โ๏ธ
We need more than a 2 popular and secure end-to-end encrypted email services ๐ง
We need more than a few popular and secure end-to-end encrypted messaging apps ๐ฌ
We need SO much more diversity in tech!
There seems to be a tendency to just pit projects against each other (or buy each other) until we only get 2 options in the end. This is horrible for consumer choices, for security, for privacy, for resilience, and just leads to more enshitification everywhere once people are locked in systems without viable alternatives.
We need much more options, everywhere.
Celebrate and encourage diversity.
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Today October 21st is Global Encryption Day!Today October 21st is
Global Encryption Day! ๐๐This is a good time to remember that encryption is essential to online security and digital privacy.
Despite some governments pushing hard to weaken it, we must remind them that we all need encryption, and especially end-to-end encryption, to stay safe online ๐
Privacy is a human right
and end-to-end encryption is one of the best tool we have to enforce that right.https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/04/11/encryption-is-not-a-crime/
#GlobalEncryptionDay #Encryption #E2EE #Privacy #RootForE2EE
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I want tech that helps humans.I want tech that helps humans.
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Trust is always revocable.Trust is always revocable.
If you liked a product or piece of software, and it becomes worse, changes the conditions, adds spying functions, you can change your mind and stop trusting and using it.
You should always re-adjust your judgment when receiving new information.
This is applicable to products, platforms, companies, political parties, and people.
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If you want to be part of The Resistance, it will cost you your smart speaker, your Ring doorbell, your smart glasses, and your AI assistants.'nMass surveillance is incompatible with revolution.If you want to be part of The Resistance,
it will cost you your smart speaker, your Ring doorbell, your smart glasses, and your AI assistants.Mass surveillance is incompatible with revolution. Get rid of it.
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If every country starts requiring that people provide official ID in order to "verify their age" to use social media, there will be no way to use any social media without associating the account with a legal identity.If every country starts requiring that people provide official ID in order to "verify their age" to use social media, there will be no way to use any social media without associating the account with a legal identity.
This is horrible for democracy,
and should terrify everyone.It doesn't matter if platforms use third-parties or not. It doesn't matter if they use some special encrypted code, the result is the same. This gatekeeps open discussions and government criticisms free from reprisals.
This is bad.
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One of the things I like the most about Star Wars (movies and shows) is buttons.@evan Oh! I will listen to it! Thanks for the recommendation! ๐
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One of the things I like the most about Star Wars (movies and shows) is buttons.One of the things I like the most about Star Wars (movies and shows) is buttons.
Buttons you can touch and push.
All tech has buttons
People control the tech pushing buttons, pulling levers, inserting blocks, and the tech does what they need.
Oh, and the fight against fascism.
I like that part the most too.
Fighting fascism and tech with buttons
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Even if Germany opposes Chat Control on October 14th, this is still only a blocking minority.Even if Germany opposes Chat Control on October 14th, this is still only a blocking minority. If your country is still undecided or is supporting Chat Control, keep the pressure on! ๐ช๐ช๐บ
๐ Use this tool to contact your MEPs: https://fightchatcontrol.eu/
๐ฐ Contact your local media
๐ฃ๏ธ Keep talking about it on social media!
Let's change this blocking minority into a blocking majority! โ๐
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Fighting for privacy rights is fighting against fascism.Fighting for privacy rights is fighting against fascism. In case there were any doubts that mass surveillance is a fascist's tool.
Privacy isn't some secondary luxury, it's fundamental to democracy and civil liberties.
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There will be some negative consequences and some efforts required to leave certain platforms in protest, to stop using AI tools, and to participate in movements opposing injustices.There will be some negative consequences and some efforts required to leave certain platforms in protest, to stop using AI tools, and to participate in movements opposing injustices. Yes. It does come at a cost.
But many forget that the cost of complying obediently, the cost of doing nothing, the cost of passivity will be much worse in the end.
It's exhausting, I know.
It's inconvenient, I know.
It's time-consuming, I know.
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If you let AI feed you all the answers, then you are letting whomever control this AI decides of everything you learn (or never learn)If you let AI feed you all the answers, then you are letting whomever control this AI decides of everything you learn (or never learn).
That people somehow still trust these tools, and what this means for the future of democracy, frightens me to my core.
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If you even just think about buying Meta's Ray-Ban Glasses that record everyone around you without consent, I will judge you as a creep, and avoid and report you like I do with other creeps.@_elena I don't understand either. I don't understand how they are legal anywhere.
It seems to go against so many laws, and I guess because there's the words "AI" and "smart" in it, nobody cares? I think we should bring this to the attention of our data protection authorities. We should get Ray-Ban banned!
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If you even just think about buying Meta's Ray-Ban Glasses that record everyone around you without consent, I will judge you as a creep, and avoid and report you like I do with other creeps. -
Canada Post, hospitals, and schools aren't (or shouldn't be) private businesses, they are public services.Canada Post, hospitals, and schools aren't (or shouldn't be) private businesses, they are public services. They don't need to make profits or break even, and they should be supported by public funding.
However, oil, gas, and AI companies are private for-profit businesses. They shouldn't receive any public funding.
Stop this madness.
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A lovely day to visit the Cliffs of Mohr, albeit the sun setting to the west makes for challenging smartphone snaps #Ireland@andypiper Wow!๐คฉ
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I know there's a general "cause fatigue" with the current state of the world, and I feel it too.I know there's a general "cause fatigue" with the current state of the world, and I feel it too.
But in my years working in privacy,
I don't think I've seen anything as terrifying as this European Chat Control proposal. And I'm not even European.Everyone needs to pay
much more attention and be much more worried and outraged about this.This proposal is the most dystopian glimpse into a horrible authoritarian future I have seen so far in the West.
It looks dismal, but we can still stop it
if we all work TOGETHER NOW โThere isn't much time left though,
so don't put it to next week.Democracy dies in silence.
- Everyone: Learn more here
- Everyone: Spread the word on social media
- Europeans ๐ช๐บ Contact your local media NOW
- Europeans ๐ช๐บ Contact your MEPs NOW
The final vote is on October 14th,
but media and representatives need to receive your messages NOW, so they have enough time to act on it.#ChatControl #Privacy #Democracy #HumanRights #MassSurveillance #StopScanningMe #EUpol #UKpol #USpol #CanPoli
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Step 1: Assemble a great team ๐Step 2: Privacy accessible to everyone ๐Step 3: Non-profit ๐Privacy Guides needs your help to keep fighting for your privacy rightsStep 1: Assemble a great team ๐
Step 2: Privacy accessible to everyone ๐
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to keep fighting for your privacy rights!If you can afford it,
we would greatly appreciate your financial support.Here's how you can support @privacyguides :
Thank you to our incredible community for your support, we couldn't be here without you ๐
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