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A home for digital sovereignty advocates and enthusiasts on Farcaster

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deeply proud to see the newly passed "click to cancel" FTC rule. it's about time we had legislation that protected our rights to easily stop using services that didn't serve us.

lina khan's doing a damn good job and i hope she stays as ftc chair no matter which presidential nominee is elected.

https://www.ftc.gov/news-events/news/press-releases/2024/10/federal-trade-commission-announces-final-click-cancel-rule-making-it-easier-consumers-end-recurring

over 10m chats were stolen from an AI call center based in saudi arabia that served fintech companies. access to 1m users' PII, documents, and chats are being sold for $15k.

as AI gets more widespread, owning it and our data becomes crucial to prevent leaks like this.

https://www.techradar.com/pro/security/millions-of-conversations-leaked-after-ai-call-center-hacked

anyone e-resident of liberland? What do you use it for?

the EU just blocked Meta from using sexual orientation info acquired from outside FB to personalize and send targeted advertisements to users...

but didn't block doing so with all personal data acquired off-platform? wonder what caused them to protect sexual orientation and not other info.

https://www.usnews.com/news/business/articles/2024-10-04/austrian-activist-schrems-wins-privacy-case-against-meta-over-personal-data-on-sexual-orientation

apple has secretly hosted two global police summits in 2019 and 2023 to help law enforcement use its products like iPhones and Vision Pro for surveillance.

they've come a long way from refusing to work with law enforcement back in 2015

https://www.forbes.com/sites/thomasbrewster/2024/10/09/apple-sells-privacy-to-consumers-but-its-quietly-helping-police-use-iphones-for-surveillance/

Really solid case for a constitutional right to privacy in the US

For some reason I always hear the 14th amendment quoted as the basis instead and I don’t think it makes as much sense in the digital era

imagine 23andme gets bought out by a company that sells its genomic data to a broker and the data ends up in the hands of a threat actor that can now identify what the potential for health risks like psychosis and heart disease are for ~15 million customers and likely their family members too.

we could live in that world if we don't get this sorted

https://archive.is/zUt88#selection-4857.79-4857.241

Pro tip: remove this from your showerhead to immediately raise your standard of living

You may need to turn up your hot water heater if it runs out too quickly after doing this—I set mine to 140 (hot enough to scald so be careful!)

“Privacy is valuable not because it empowers us to exercise control over our information,” he argues, “but because it protects against the creation of such information in the first place.”

nothing put the fear of surveillance into me as much as learning what could be done with my online data. this argument is accurate.

https://www.newyorker.com/culture/the-weekend-essay/what-is-privacy-for

Reposting here as it is also highly relevant to /sovereignty
https://warpcast.com/designheretic/0xfa1b6af4

excited to be announcing what we've been working on :)

https://warpcast.com/ashoat.eth/0x427722f7

ICE has signed a $2m contract with paragon, a spyware startup founded by fmr members of Mossad’s Unit 8200 (israel’s equivalent to the NSA)

paragon sells a service that “hacks whatsapp and signal” chats

https://www.wired.com/story/ice-paragon-solutions-contract/

New article—read by a voice AI from Eleven Labs:

Securing the Fourth: Reclaiming the Right to Digital Privacy in an Age of Surveillance

TLDL: the 4th Am. should be read to protect a negative right precluding the government from limiting access to privacy tools

https://x.com/designheretic/status/1841196387322773519

Created a Farcaster group on SimpleX: https://shorturl.at/ABvzC

Resharing here as it is relevant to /sovereignty too—prepare to have your perception of the modern state’s means of exercising power altered even further in the direction that brought us together to begin with

TLDR: COINTELPRO is very much still active
https://warpcast.com/designheretic/0xb1c377c0

apple has been allegedly collecting personal data even after users disabled tracking settings, stating that the "Allow Apps to Request to Track" setting applies only to "other companies' apps and websites," not their own apps (App Store, Apple Music, Apple TV).

if true, what hypocrites.

https://www.reuters.com/legal/apple-must-face-narrowed-privacy-lawsuit-over-its-apps-2024-09-27/

Hard not to be persuaded by this if you’re anything but a hardcore -ismist
https://youtu.be/FBRLZVlAFmk

Fun fact: the odds of a single vote deciding the outcome of any national contest in the US are vastly lower than the odds of dying in a car accident on your way to the polling place.

#NotVoting2024

musk has complied with brazil's request to ban 9 twitter accounts in a bid to end twitter's ban in the country. just another reminder that all his talk about 'defending free speech' is for show.

https://www.reuters.com/technology/x-asks-brazils-top-court-allow-it-resume-services-source-says-2024-09-26/

the tor project and tails (linux-based private OS) are merging!

seems like tails was struggling with bizops and fundraising so the merger will let them focus just on building -- a win-win-win :)

https://blog.torproject.org/tor-tails-join-forces/

i better not see the words "telegram" and "private" in the same sentence ever again

a great example of AI being used to preserve privacy and free journalism

however, you have to wonder if any of the tech companies hosting the videos or assisting with video generation would comply with a government request for personal data. hopefully not.

this is ridiculous. if someone wants snap their friends they aren’t consenting to hand their face over to snap.

https://www.theverge.com/2024/9/17/24247238/snapchat-ai-my-selfie-feature-face-personalized-ads

gonna get some light reading done this week :)

you can be permanuked from discord for any reason apparently

reason #1829319 not to use discord

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