siderea, to random

Credit where credit is due: Google just did something really, really right.

h/t @verge:
"Google will update Maps to prevent authorities from accessing location history data" (https://www.theverge.com/2023/12/15/24002693/google-maps-update-geofence-warrants-law-enforcement )

> Google will soon store Maps users’ location history locally on their devices instead of in the cloud, a big change that will make it more difficult for law enforcement to access the data.

kkarhan,
@kkarhan@mstdn.social avatar

@siderea * * I am convinced @verge just did on a press release.

Because can't do that by virtue of and all the other they've to comply as a in the ...

kkarhan, (edited )
@kkarhan@mstdn.social avatar

@siderea @verge not really...

Because they are bound by U.S. law and was specifically designed to enforce in the sense that if a company operates or is incorporated in the USA, ALL their brances, subsidiaries amd parent companirs must comply with every U.S. law even if they don't transact with U.S. citizens/organizations/corporations and/or U.S. (occupied/annexed) soil...

I doubkt Google can do so unless they were to suicide their data-driven business...

charliejane, to random
@charliejane@wandering.shop avatar

Uh oh... The lobbying push for KOSA (a bill which purports to protect kids but will instead censor LGBTQ info from the Internet) is ramping up.

https://www.nbcnews.com/tech/social-media/kosa-kids-online-safety-act-speech-censor-rcna128249

If you belong to any of these orgs, please tell them to stop supporting this trash.

kkarhan,
@kkarhan@mstdn.social avatar

@charliejane , like and , is just behind a rotting ...

retr0id, to random
@retr0id@retr0.id avatar
kkarhan,
@kkarhan@mstdn.social avatar

@alteropen @anedroid @retr0id

Keep shilling @signalapp if that pays your bills, but don't spew that into my timeline.

I've said ait and I'll repeat myself again:

If was actually designed to be secure, they'd not make it a , & solution, collect unnecessary like and espechally not incorporate in a juristiction [] which is known for , / and .

openrightsgroup, to UKpolitics
@openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org avatar

The UK Data Protection and Digital Information Bill is a naked .

The State and companies will have more access to our data with fewer restrictions.

And it'll be harder to enforce what rights remain over our personal data

Read our briefing ⤵️

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/publications/policy-briefing-data-protection-and-digital-information-no-2-bill-second-reading/

kkarhan,
@kkarhan@mstdn.social avatar

@openrightsgroup I do expect the / to be declared incompatible with alongside and whatever other places like , and push for...

It's just that legislature is way too fast for judiciary branch to react in time before damage has been done!

glynmoody, to random
@glynmoody@mastodon.social avatar

EU-wide digital wallet: MEPs reach deal with Council - https://www.europarl.europa.eu/news/en/press-room/20231106IPR09006/eu-wide-digital-wallet-meps-reach-deal-with-council this is an absolute disgrace, it will open up everyone in EU to invisible, unstoppable government surveillance. shame on @EU_Commission and @Europarl_EN details: https://www.techdirt.com/2023/11/03/eu-tries-to-slip-in-new-powers-to-intercept-encrypted-web-traffic-without-anyone-noticing/

kkarhan,
@kkarhan@mstdn.social avatar

@glynmoody @EU_Commission Agreed: That shit provides no benefit for the end user but solely enables and ...

Literally making it possible to delete people from registries and locking them out of their identity makes it trivual to commit and illegally and citizens into being .

A wet dream for like and ...

kkarhan,
@kkarhan@mstdn.social avatar

@glynmoody @thomasjorgensen @quincy

That is and I regard it as an act of self- and mitual defense to refuse to comply woth such bs!

kkarhan,
@kkarhan@mstdn.social avatar

@quincy @ErikJonker @glynmoody @thomasjorgensen +9001%

Amything else is and incompatible with a free society and human rights!
https://mastodon.social/@ErikJonker/111380127885893888

kkarhan,
@kkarhan@mstdn.social avatar

@quincy @ErikJonker @glynmoody @thomasjorgensen +9001%

I don't consider phomesto be secure at all.

And everyone who believes a centralized messenger like @signalapp or a privider like @protonmail will save their ass is either completely ignorant of cases besides & or prefers to lie to oneself over the cold reality.

And it's not like I am the only one who works against ...

And if that means I've to use a CB Radio & AFSK shit so be it!
https://github.com/KBtechnologies/PocketCrypto

kkarhan,
@kkarhan@mstdn.social avatar

@quincy @thomasjorgensen @lobingera @glynmoody Yeah, tho I do see this as a way to shoehorn more retroactively into stuff...

Just like with + banning cards basically making a mandatory in under the dalse claim to do "roadside assistance and distress calls" when other options would've offered the same at far less cost, better privacy and better coverage...

kkarhan,
@kkarhan@mstdn.social avatar

@quincy @KatS @ErikJonker @glynmoody @thomasjorgensen simple: like get "promoted away" to the when their gets them grilled by the public!

kkarhan,
@kkarhan@mstdn.social avatar

@quincy @thomasjorgensen @KatS @ErikJonker @glynmoody like with a lot of expect this to become sooner than later...

noiq, to random

Booted up my old FirefoxOS ZTE phone. Pretty surprised it booted tbh.

kkarhan,
@kkarhan@mstdn.social avatar
transworld, to transgender
@transworld@masto.ai avatar

Poland: Law and Justice legislator, Ryszard Terlecki, warned of dire consequences, including an upsurge in L.G.B.T.Q. activism that he described as a “rainbow flood,” if the opposition was allowed to form a government.

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/10/31/world/europe/poland-election-results.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare

kkarhan,
@kkarhan@mstdn.social avatar

@rail @transworld nodds in agreement

Espechally since I doubt that workarounds (i.e. marring in another member state) even if they weren't paywalled in a classist manner won't be feasible.

Can we just ban and make all EU members laicist?

After all, if @EU_Commission can push than they can also push !

rival_elf, to random

Data about how much money scammers are making using IMSI catchers to defraud people is finally starting to regularly surface

See recently this guy who made ~$40k USD in 2 months stealing credit card info via fake SMS messages

https://focustaiwan.tw/society/202308090022

kkarhan,
@kkarhan@mstdn.social avatar

@rival_elf It's also because is literally designed insecure with weakened as per .

Needless to say that it's absolutely trivial to creake a fake base station and downgrade mobile devices to use 2G.

The only winning move is not to use a mobile phone & for at all.

matthew_d_green, to random
@matthew_d_green@ioc.exchange avatar

The EU chat control legislation has been temporarily postponed. That’s good news. The bad news is there’s another vote in December. https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/chat-control-vote-postponed-huge-success-in-defense-of-digital-privacy-of-correspondence/

kkarhan,
@kkarhan@mstdn.social avatar

@matthew_d_green That's intentional journalistic malpractice!

In the meantime @EU_Commission even publicly admitted to people susceptible to their -Style on like / / ...

openrightsgroup, (edited ) to random
@openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org avatar

Suella Braverman’s letter to the police on the harassment of Jewish people in the UK following Hamas' attack on Israel raises issues for freedom of expression.

We're concerned about the consequences of such a letter when the Online Safety Bill becomes law:

https://www.openrightsgroup.org/press-releases/response-to-braverman/

kkarhan,
@kkarhan@mstdn.social avatar

@openrightsgroup I'd just the and tell them to feck off with their !

kobayashi90, to FreeSpeech

So they admitted that their Goal is not Free Speech at all, not gonna lie thats what this reply says in my Eyes. Sad to say that you lost my Trust.

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kkarhan,
@kkarhan@mstdn.social avatar

@kobayashi90 very simple:
Like @protonmail they act as a #SingleVendor / #SingleProvider solution and @signalapp not only refuses to distribute their app as #sourcecode so @fdroidorg and others can actually release reproducible builds but they also don't make it #SelfHosting capable.

Not to mention their reliance of #GoogleAPIs and #centralization in the #USA and thus subject to #CloudAct as well as collecting #PhoneNumbers and being thus able and willing to do #Cyberfacism on behalf of US Gov.

iurecz, to random Czech
@iurecz@witter.cz avatar

"A newly-published independent investigation uncovered that the European Commission has been promoting industry interests in its proposed law to regulate the spread of child sexual abuse material online."

https://edri.org/our-work/press-release-csa-regulation-who-benefits-from-the-eu-commissions-mass-surveillance-law/

kkarhan,
@kkarhan@mstdn.social avatar

@iurecz This should be for the incompatibility with it is!

TheBird, to random
@TheBird@ni.hil.ist avatar

Is horrifying, and honestly, I'm worried it'll pass. That Democrats will throw away LGBTQIA people's right to exist AT ALL on the Internet for this bullshit idea of "protecting minors."

Kids are being used as fodder for culture genocide. It's sickening. Please fight tooth and nail to stop KOSA.

LGBTQIA folks have a right to exist. Our writings, art, existence, media all have a right to exist.

LGBTQIA kids have a right to exist too.

KOSA won't protect anyone. It will be used as a weapon to destroy the lives of people and harass us to death or worse. I'm legit shaken that Democrats in America signed on to this atrocity -- they really don't give a shit about us anymore.

I also worry this will impact the ability for websites and places like here to exist even in other countries that are safe for LGBTQIA folks.

Fighting for the right to exist at all is exhausting. But that's the point, isn't it? The Conversative Right wants to enact genocide, to exhaust us so that we give up and allow them to erase our existence entirely. And it's not just LGBTQIA folks being targeted -- People of Color, disabled people, Jewish people, and folks who exist at the intersections of those identities are as well. Basically anyone who is not white abled-bodied cishet conversative Christian is a target for these assholes.

Please fight this and all the other atrocities that these assholes keep throwing at us.

Don't give up hope.

Choose hope. "Hope is a discipline," Mariame Kaba wrote in "We Do This 'Til We Free Us," so let's enact the discipline of hope and continue to fight tooth and nail for the right of people like us to exist and THRIVE.

kkarhan,
@kkarhan@mstdn.social avatar

@TheBird Remember: That is intentional ant the only way to stop it is to fight against it by all means necessary.

After all, !

casuallynoted, to random

I think my actual biggest kink might be the Digital Markets Act.

kkarhan,
@kkarhan@mstdn.social avatar

@casuallynoted me tok, but I've yet to see @EU_Commission do something else than forcing , , and bootlicking GAFAMs.

taoeffect, to random
@taoeffect@mstdn.io avatar

If a car manufacturer like makes a car that's connected to the Internet, with no off switch, do not buy it.

It's that simple.

There are so many great used cars out there that you can buy instead. Give the cabal the 🖕

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OYcmF9IAJbU

kkarhan,
@kkarhan@mstdn.social avatar

@taoeffect OFC they could've chosen to implement in a non- fashion by basically using -'s 406 MHz band + 121,5 MHz homing signal which would've made the system not dependent on infrastructure and globally working, but that would've meant people like would've think outside of "How can we accelerate in the faster?"...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Cospas-Sarsat_Programme

siguza, to random

We need an EU regulation to mandate that all internet-connected devices must have a mechanism to disable internet access entirely and remain functional indefinitely, at whatever capacity is technically possible.

Want to have an app to control your dumb gadget? That fucker can use bluetooth, there is no legitimate reason to require at account on the vendor's website, which they can block at any time, harvest data from at any time, get hacked, and also make your lightbulbs unable to turn off if us-east-1 is down.

kkarhan,
@kkarhan@mstdn.social avatar

@siguza The problem is that @EU_Commission acts like a and is currently loving really big...

Propably has nothing to do with being there...

kkarhan, to random
@kkarhan@mstdn.social avatar

Apparently the has chosen an open pit mine for hate as their "hill to die on"...
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/08/isps-should-not-police-online-speech-no-matter-how-awful-it

Because there is no valid reason to ever defend and has the right to [) traffic to them for all the valid reasons...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiwi_Farms

kkarhan,
@kkarhan@mstdn.social avatar

@KelsonV well, either @eff didn't put any effort in it or it pretty much flew under the radar of everyone I know...

Needless to say is the last thing they should defend, and even if they did actually get their asses up regarding in the past, allying with and that have a literal bodycount of 3 confirmed and a dozen unconfirmed does undo everything they did well in the past...

kkarhan, to France
@kkarhan@mstdn.social avatar

WTF?

goes full :
literally classified using , @torproject , , @protonmail and 's as "suspicious activity" in terms of ...

SERIOUSLY, DID THESE IDIOTS DRANK SOME WINE WITH ETHYLENE GLYCOL OR WHAT!?

kkarhan,
@kkarhan@mstdn.social avatar

@xilebo @thelinuxexperiment

They just follow logic whilst not reintroducing "death penalty"...

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