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JamesBaker

@JamesBaker@social.openrightsgroup.org

Campaigns and advocacy manager at https://social.openrightsgroup.org/@openrightsgroup. (he/him) messaging in a personal capacity on #privacy #civilliberties #localgovernment #environment

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JamesBaker, to random
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Meta turning on E2EE for Messenger is a good move it will ensure millions of people benefit from a security and privacy feature. They have done this despite a large amount of pressure from the Home Office in the U.K. who are worried about it impacting their snooping powers.

JamesBaker, to privacy
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The Government’s data grab bill is back in Parliament on Wednesday. Please write to your MP and tell them to take their hands off our data! https://action.openrightsgroup.org/email-your-mp-stop-data-grab-bill

JamesBaker, to privacy
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We value your privacy by sharing data with 376 partners…. Not impressed by UK Met Office app.

JamesBaker, to privacy
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So it seems the FCA has not learnt from what happened to the Electoral Commission with their data breach. They want to amass a honeypot of consumer’s credit agreements by forcing the finance industry to send them to it. https://www.fca.org.uk/publications/consultation-papers/cp23-21-consumer-credit-product-sales-data-reporting

JamesBaker, to privacy
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I’ve been running an ORG stall today at the Liberal Democrat’s regional conference in Leeds. If you have a relevant conference or event then we would love to come and talk about digital rights issues at it!

JamesBaker, to privacy
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Facial recognition is on the rise by UK Police. We are just marching towards more digital authoritarianism and surveillance. https://www.wired.co.uk/article/uk-police-face-recognition-expansion

JamesBaker, to random
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Since having Covid (for the third time) in August I feel like my immune system is wrecked. I’ve had three infections requiring antibiotics since then and now a viral chest infection and fever. I’m ordering a sun lamp and more zinc and vitamin C. I have a pretty good diet with homemade food. Do people have any other immune boosting tips?

JamesBaker, to random
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A floating AI complex in international waters. This is very cyberpunk. https://www.extremetech.com/computing/ai-company-plans-to-run-clusters-of-10000-nvidia-h100-gpus-in-international

JamesBaker, to random
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Sending your DNA off to learn about your ancestors and as a bonus you get to become part of a GSK experiment and have your DNA on the dark web https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2023-10-30/23andme-will-give-gsk-access-to-consumer-dna-data

JamesBaker, to random
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Was just in the post office and overheard a lady saying she was trying to use cash more so they don’t take it away from us. Anecdotally it seems a growing concern among people that this might happen.

JamesBaker, to ukteachers
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Britain’s barmy surveillance state expands all the time. Now it’s Department for Education caught spying and keeping records on educational experts. The purpose, to control and cancel those whose views don’t align. https://www.theguardian.com/education/2023/sep/30/it-felt-like-a-dictatorship-uk-teaching-experts-hit-out-at-government-bid-to-cancel-them

JamesBaker, to Bulgaria
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So it turns out Europol want the access to all the data that would be collected under plans to scan messages for CSAM. Confirming worst fears that child abuse is being used as an excuse for routine mass surveillance of all images and messages https://balkaninsight.com/2023/09/29/europol-sought-unlimited-data-access-in-online-child-sexual-abuse-regulation/ . #surveillance #eu #privacy

JamesBaker, to privacy
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Im picking up a lot of people being annoyed about the Online Safety Bill. Once they actually try and implement it then I suspect there will be quite a backlash. People will find the censorship restrictive and get annoyed at age gating. Loads of people saying they will try and use VPN/ToR to get around it.

JamesBaker, to privacy
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Lots of people saying they will get a VPN to avoid the UK’s online safety bill. I can see it won’t be long until so called democracies start cracking down on them too. If I were a VPN provider I’d be happy at the short term boom but very worried about medium and long-term legislative environment #onlinesafetybill #vpn #privacy

JamesBaker, to random
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Liberty is complicated to assess with both positive and negative forms. I do think when it comes to online freedom of speech we are going to see the US constitution act as a defender of liberty. Meanwhile in both Oz and UK we see this drift towards ‘safety first, freedom second’ approach to online regulation. The UK common law traidtion increasingly seems a weak safeguard for liberty, will US actually become more a land of the free?

JamesBaker, to privacy
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So the Online Safety Bill has just passed through the UK Parliament and is now set to become law. OFCOM will have their worn cut out to make the law work. Here is my quick reaction on three ways it could actually harm you. https://youtu.be/8aL9k8KqT7A?si=xgbQVcQldaJ5rU3a

JamesBaker, to random
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With both message scanning on the cards in the UK and a war on encryption + live facial recognition being touted its hard not to feel like we are taking another step down the surveillance dystopia path. So much of UK discourse is safety driven though. Seems hard to make a freedom based case.

JamesBaker, to random
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Three positives about the UK’s debate on encryption.

  1. Public acknowledgment that the technology to scan private messages doesn’t exist and isn’t in a workable situation.

  2. Recognition thst OFCOM will have to consider the impact on journalists and their sources if they can’t access secure E2EE messaging systems.

  3. Repeated statements that powers can only be used if compatibility me with privacy rights and recognition of these rights.

JamesBaker, to privacy
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‘There are no ethical momfluncers’. Interesting article on the ethics of farming your children for fame and likes. Makes me think how absent this type of behaviour was from the Online Safety Bill debate and regulation in the U.K. https://www.infinitescroll.us/p/there-are-no-ethical-momfluencers

JamesBaker, to privacy
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It’s been a confusing week for those of us trying to understand what the UK Government is doing with its plans to break end-to-end encryption. This article by @jim and I tried to make sense of the omnishambles https://www.openrightsgroup.org/blog/omnishambles-over-encrypted-messages-continues/

JamesBaker, to random
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It’s welcome the UK Government has acknowledged the technical issues around their plans to scan E2EE messaging. As reported widely in article like this https://www.wired.com/story/britain-admits-defeat-online-safety-bill-encryption/

JamesBaker, to random
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This afternoon I chaired a discussion in House of Lords around the impact of the Online Safety Bill on end-to-end encryption. We had groups such as Amnesty International and Stonewall come out criticising the measures. Signal, Liberty and CitizenLab also joined us along with a Big Brother Watch, Article 19 and EFF. So much of UK civil society opposes this clause. We are all clear the Government needs to move further to protect privacy and private messaging apps.

JamesBaker, to privacy
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Well well Australia appears to be struggling to implement age verification. Do we think somehow Ofcom and the UK will succeed where others are failing? https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2023/aug/31/roadmap-for-age-verification-online-pornographic-material-adult-websites-australia-law

JamesBaker, to random
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A other major data leak in the UK. It’s incredibly hard to secure personal data so organisations ought to minimise what they hold! https://x.com/skynews/status/1695677551623237702?s=46&t=OzOLkg5qradHVSWAn4N85g

JamesBaker, to tech
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The UK is seen as an increasingly hostile environment to do business in. Rishi’s tech strategy is going to be putting the economy at risk, as millions of customers lose access to apps vital for doing business securely https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/technology-66304002

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