> #China — the biggest internet market globally with more than 1 billion users — is no stranger to online #censorship. For years, authorities in the country Client software Clash, which helps users bypass firewalls and circumvent China's censorship system, has abruptly left the Web world.
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We are conducting a study where we need to keep audio recordings of participant evaluations. Can anyone suggest how the voices in these recordings could be distorted so they could be anonymised? I thought it is an easy problem, but similar questions on several platforms remain unanswered. #privacy#anonymity@dataGovernance@datasovereignty
#EU#DigitalIdentity#eIDAS#Surveillance#Anonymity#Privacy#DigitalRights: "A new digital identity wallet app is to allow EU citizens to access public and private digital services such as Facebook or Google, and pay online. The deal was made even though more than 500 scientists and numerous NGOs in an open letter „strongly warn against the currently proposed trilogue agreement, as it fails to properly respect the right to privacy of citizens and secure online communications“ – criticism which the Pirate Party Members of the European Parliament underline.
“This regulation is a blank cheque for surveillance of citizens online, endangering our privacy and security online”, comments Pirate Party lawmaker Patrick Breyer. “Browser security is being undermined, and overidentification will gradually erode our right to use digital services anonymously. Mark Zuckerberg should have no right to see our ID! Entrusting our digital lives to the government instead of Facebook and Google is jumping out of the frying pan and into the fire. This deal sacrifices essential requirements the European Parliament had put forward to make the eID app privacy-friendly and secure. The EU misses the opportunity to establish a trustworthy framework for modernization and digitization. We will watch the implementation very closely.”"
@protonmail@davidrevoy if you actually cared about #privacy and #anonymity you'd not only fix your #OnionService AND allow anonymous payment (i.e. #Monero :monero:) but also help users to setup proper #E2EE like PGP/MIME and instead of fucking around with their eMail contents in transit, offer something that would actually make sense like the option to block unencrypted eMail going out and/or in.
But that would require effort beyond #FUD and False Promises in #Marketing: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WVDQEoe6ZWY
@jon So so sad, and #Bavaria isn't the only racist sh*t place: just today my partner stepped in to a situation in a #TGV to #Paris where the ticket control guy decided to threaten a black woman with #police because her otherwise totally valid train ticket had the wrong name on it.
Eventually she was forced to buy a new ticket for 120 Euro. Because the name FFS
"We are today releasing both 0.4.7.15 and 0.4.8.6 with an important fix for onion services regarding congestion control and its reliability. We strongly encourage all onion service operators to upgrade as soon as possible to the latest stable that is the 0.4.8.x series.
We also address the issue with the annoying “compression bomb” log message that some relay operators have been noticing a lot lately.
Important to remember that we are expecting to end of life the 0.4.7.x series in a couple of months (likely around November) after the majority of the network has migrated and Tor Browser stable no longer ships it. That being said, please upgrade to the 0.4.8.x latest stable as soon as you can."
The Politie uses a lot of outreach activities to try to persuade people that they are not anonymous and should not engage in cybercrime. This is another one of their efforts, it seems.
"We are quickly releasing a new version after last week stable release in order to fix #BSD compilation issues and an annoying BUG() stacktrace in the logs for relay operators.
As usual, we strongly encourage everyone to upgrade to this version as soon as possible."
#Cybersecurity#Tor#Privacy#Anonymity: "Tor is a valuable tool for browsing the web anonymously, but since it's powered by volunteers willing to share some bandwidth and a computer, it's always in need of additional help. Which is why EFF is announcing the Tor University Challenge, a project asking universities to start running Tor relays on campus. Today, we're launching with support from 12 universities. With your help, we can add more universities to strengthen the Tor network to improve one of the best free privacy tools available today.
In 2011, we launched our first Tor Challenge, which resulted in 549 new relays. By 2014, after we launched our second Tor Challenge, we had counted 1,635 new relays. This time around, we're focusing on getting more Tor relays onto college campuses. Universities are especially well-suited for Tor relays because they often offer fast internet, have lots of technical expertise available (including professors, students, and IT teams), and value freedom of expression. Setting up a Tor relay on your college campus will help make Tor faster and better, because the more relays that exist, the better the experience of using Tor gets for everyone."
#SocialMedia#Twitter#Copyright#DMCA#Anonymity: "When a Twitter user posted copyrighted photos for the purpose of criticizing a private-equity billionaire, Twitter stepped in to challenge a DMCA subpoena that aimed to strip that person of their anonymity. A new DMCA subpoena targeting three Twitter users, including one who isn't anonymous at all, is certainly controversial. The demands listed in the subpoena are nothing short of extraordinary."
#Russia#Anonymity#VPN#Censorship: "President Putin has signed off on legal amendments that threaten to destroy online anonymity, crush free speech, and stifle innovation. Starting this year, internet platforms must verify new users' identities via state-approved systems, before granting access. VPN circumvention advice will constitute a crime, certain Gmail use will be banned, and non-state-approved hosting companies will be rendered illegal."
#EU#Netherlands#SocialMedia#Facebook#Meta#Anonymity: "Starting today, Facebook users may feel a little less safe posting anonymously. The Court of the Hague in The Netherlands ruled that Meta Ireland must unmask an anonymous user accused of defaming the claimant, a male Facebook user who allegedly manipulated and made secret recordings of women he dated.
The anonymous Facebook user posted the allegedly defamatory statements in at least two private Facebook groups dedicated to discussing dating experiences. The claimant could not gain access but was shown screenshots from the groups, one with about 2,600 members and one with around 61,000 members. The claimant argued that his reputation had suffered from the repeated postings that included photos of the man and alleged screenshots of his texts.
The claimant tried to get Meta to remove the posts, but Meta responded with an email saying that it would not do so because "it is not clear to us that the content you reported is unlawful as defamation."
At that point, Meta suggested that the man contact the anonymous user directly to resolve the matter, triggering the lawsuit against Meta. Initially, the claimant asked the court to order Meta to delete the posts, identify the anonymous user, and flag any posts in other private Facebook groups that could defame the claimant.
While arguing the case, Meta had defended the anonymous user's right to freedom of expression, but the court decided that the claimant—whose name is redacted in court documents—deserved an opportunity to challenge the allegedly defamatory statements."