Truly the darkest pattern. #OneTrust is such a shady organization. I went to check the cookie settings on a site I was visiting, and it LOOKED like the toggles were set to off, but in reality, they were still active. Totally gross and misleading behavior!
#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.”"
It's been over two weeks since the Hamas attacks and the start of the Israeli offensive in Gaza.
We condemn the targeting of civilians by all parties, both through indiscriminate terror attacks on Israelis, and what the UN has called the collective punishment of Palestinians.
As a UK digital rights organisation, we also condemn how these events are being used to infringe civil liberties of people in the UK.
The French police has been illegally using facial recognition since 2015. The usage of the software, developed by an Israeli company, has not been declared to the national #dataprotection authority. #privacy#digitalrights
As bad as it was in the #BayArea at times, at least there was a thriving OS/digital rights/privacy community there. Here, it's like only the worst of the Bay Area exists, in a tiny Euro-American centric bubble.
I don't get to to do long reads, but
Cory Doctorow ( @pluralistic ) piece titles "‘Enshittification’ is coming for absolutely everything" is an excellent read, specially if you care about privacy, digital rights and digital sovereignty and what to understand what has been eroding them.
I attempted to play putt-putt today. I was asked to create an account, which included some #PII, including name, DOB, email address, phone number, etc.
I declined to give them my info. I was told I could not play without it. So I left.
The battle to protect our data rights continues as the #DPDIBill returns to the UK House of Lords today.
Our amendments to strengthen the Information Commissioner's Office are on the table. We need a strong, independent and effective data regulator to ensure our rights are enforced.
I tried to do a Tik Tok video about how the online safety act would censor content and it was ironically throttled for mentioning categories that would be censored. I think we ought to try and use different platforms to reach people about digital rights issues but those platforms don’t make it easy to do so. #censorship#digitalrights#algorithm