1/8 Between 9 & 11 Oct, 2⃣3⃣ activists from Greece, Italy, Czech Republic, Austria, Sweden, Finland, Norway, Portugal, Denmark, Romania, Germany, Spain & France came to Brussels to:
tell MEPs to ❌ reject the #CSAR proposal to prevent mass surveillance.
@echo_pbreyer the EU has turned into a downright Circus under the current leadership - there is a blatant disregard for the law, human and constitutional rights. There is a blatant disregard for the will of the people, corruption and the manipulative tactics being engaged, an absolute disgrace. #Chatkontrolle#Chatcontrol#masssurveillance#Constitutional#Human#Rights#digitalerhausfriedensbruch A wonderful moral compass for dictators and despots in other parts of the world.
🇬🇧 Concerning her #ChatControl#MassSurveillance scheme, EU Commissioner @YlvaJohansson is acting as a double agent of international tech corporations, law enforcement and big money.
#EU#FacialRecognition#Surveillance#Biometrics#MassSurveillance#AI#AIAct: "In Europe, the EDRi-led Reclaim Your Face campaign – a civil society movement supported by over 250,000 people across the continent – has demanded a ban on all biometric mass surveillance practices since 2020. Lawmakers in the European Parliament heard our call and in summer 2023, adopted a position which would ban the majority of such practices.
However, EU governments are pushing back in the final negotiations on the AI Act, claiming – without evidence – that we need these systems for safety and security. To the contrary, we are here to remind them that when our every moves are tracked and analysed without due cause, none of us are safer."
We're also pleased to have @cdteurope's Iverna McGowan moderate the discussion 🌟 & to hear from Noémie Levain, Legal Expert at @LaQuadrature, Beatriz Ramalho da Silva, Investigative Journalist at @lhreports & Bart Staszewski LGBTI+ activist, founder and chairman of Basta Fundacja 🤩
🇬🇧 Worrying! Internal minutes reveal that numerous EU states want to pass indiscriminate #Chatcontrol#CSAM#MassSurveillance legislation in just two weeks. Protest now!
“The growing popularity of #facialrecognition at stadiums & music venues like Madison Square Garden has drawn criticism from privacy advocates who say the tech doesn’t work as well 4 women or non-white people. A coalition of more than 100 artists, incl rock band Rage Against the Machine, recently signed a pledge earlier this year to boycott performing in stadiums that use the technology” #MassSurveillancehttps://gizmodo.com/9-stadiums-using-facial-recognition-games-rose-bowl-met-1850798207
The problem with the EFF's reasoning here is that these very same ISPs and other sorts of people have ALWAYS been attacking and taking down and banning marginalized people's content for spurious reasons - time and time again. The real world is ALREADY shit for marginalized people - there's no slippery slope to fall down, we're ALREADY down the slippery slope.
I've had this beef with the fucking neoliberals in the EFF and ACLU for decades - they seem to think riding to the defense of right wing hate groups protects marginalized people ... but then crickets when sex workers are banned from the financial system. Or when trans people are harassed, swatted, and doxxed off the internet by organized gangs of bigoted thugs.
There's NEVER a right time to ride to the defense of Nazis. EVER!
@kkarhan@JessTheUnstill While I can agree with the sentiment & intent, the notion that it's even technically even feasible to identify the #ASN to do such a thing to me highlights that the #clearnet is fundamentally broken.
But then it's not like I haven't been repeating that for a while now.
It doesn't even matter if I provide references & explanations on how it works, the "but we're not interesting" (completely failing to understand the automation aspect) mental block seems insurmountable and short-circuits any actual thinking about the matter.
#ULEZ More than 300 cameras damaged or stolen in four months
This tells the story about what kind of people are most opposed cleaning up our air - thugs & criminals. I hope we have some of these "martyrs" caught & sent to gaol
That is always the problem with right wing #populism - it attracts the thugs
#OECD#Democracy#MassSurveillance: "In democratic states, mass surveillance is typically associated with totalitarianism. Surveillance practices more limited in their scope draw criticism for their potential to undermine democratic rights and freedoms and the functioning of representative democracies. Despite this, citizens living in political systems classed as democratic are increasingly subject to surveillance practices by both businesses and governments. This paper presents the results of a genealogy of OECD digitalisation discourse from the 1970s to the present to show how both harms and benefits of surveillance practices have been problematised. It shows how practices once considered unacceptable are increasingly portrayed as neutral, or even positive. A shift is identified from general agreement over the incompatibility of surveillance practices with democracy to greater acceptance of those practices when rebranded as tools to promote customisation, economic growth or public health. This transformation is significant because it: (1) shows the inherent instability of policies anchored to seemingly fixed or self-evident concepts such as ‘well-being’ or ‘public interest’; (2) highlights the fragility of democratic systems when things deemed harmful to their operation can be repurposed and subsequently permitted; and (3) highlights the contingency of (seemingly inevitable) surveillance practices, thereby opening up a space in which to challenge them."
Instead of obtaining a warrant, the NSA would like to keep buying your data
An effort by US lawmakers to prevent government agencies from tracking citizens without a search warrant is opposed by the #NSA.
Last month it was revealed that US intelligence agencies were avoiding judicial review by purchasing a “large amount” of “sensitive and intimate information” on Americans, including data that can be used to trace people’s whereabouts.
#EU#CSAM#MassSurveillance#Encryption#Privacy#Cybersecurity: "The Council of EU Member States are close to finalising their position on the controversial CSA Regulation. Yet the latest slew of Council amendments – just like the European Commission’s original – endorse measures which amount to mass surveillance and which would fundamentally undermine end-to-end encryption."
@edri 🇬🇧 EU governments are determined to approve #chatcontrol#masssurveillance on 28 September and destroy #E2EE, according to new document, reports @edri:
Incisive oped from former head of cyber security at GCHQ, calling the mass surveillance provision in the UK's Online Safety Bill "a hugely controversial power that damages Britain’s reputation for online security."
Not only will people get jailed for refusal to surrender keys and passwords, violating their right to remain silent and not incriminate themselves, but #GCHQ is literally comitting #MassSurveillance against entire nations with neither #warrant nor declaration of war.