“While most countries want to introduce new surveillance laws, Germany is taking the opposite approach: The Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport Affairs (BMDV) has published a draft bill that will require email, messenger and other cloud providers to use strong end-to-end encryption.”
Last week we published our response to Ofcom's Online Safety Act (UK) consultation.
We've raised concerns about the threat to free expression in requirements to proactively screen users' social media content and measures that undermine end-to-end encryption.
Yet another reason why your private messages should be stored on a server you control or e2ee (ideally, both): it's likely the pseudonyms and accounts you use can be linked back to your IRL identity... and sold to anyone willing to pay
This was an easy blog post for me to write! There is so much wrong with the State of Nevada’s request for an injunction to prevent Meta from rolling out end-to-end encryption in Facebook Messenger. For starters, WhatsApp has had E2EE since 2016, Apple iMessage since 2011 … and more.
Hopefully the district court in Nevada will agree and NOT allow the injunction! We’ll see.
Last night we joined an effort to stop the State of Nevada from making it easier for children’s personal information to be obtained by child predators, criminal gangs, foreign nations, and others.
Together with the ACLU, @riana , @eff , @CenDemTech , @mozilla , @fight , and @signalapp , and Access Now, we filed an amicus brief asking the court to protect children by ensuring they can use the most secure communication possible!
To security experts: Do you use #VPN for services that are already end-to-end encrypted? Or, you add their apps in split-tunnelling mode?
Or, to rephrase it: is there any use in keeping end-to-end encrypted apps behind a VPN?
This is under the assumption that all things are equal (no ISP issues; no need to bypass any network set up; end-to-end encryption is enabled by default).
The Going Dark High-Level Group is suggesting that the EU should be more like China/Iran and block access to communications services which do not comply with (also suggested) EU law on lawful interception for all types of communications services ("level playing field"), including of course secure #E2EE OTT services.
I just finished writing a code test which creates and queues for delivery an end-to-end encrypted email-like message in somewhere around 10-15 lines of #Kotlin code.
Think about it. It's starting getting real. SQUEEEE!!!
🚨 Important update from @signalapp 🚨
The latest update (v7 on Desktop):
✅ Keep your phone number hidden
✅ Choose to share a username instead
✅ Take control with new privacy settings - You decide who finds you by phone number.
@glynmoody The EU does so much well motivated (if flawed) stuff around privacy and data ownership... and then does junk like this. Two steps forward...
Today, a district court in Nevada is hearing a case about whether Meta should have to comply with the state AG’s demand for a temporary restraining order to stop Meta from offering end-to-end #encryption (#E2EE) on Facebook’s Messenger for children in Nevada under the age of 18.