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"It will not break encryption" is a strange thing to insist on when Apple and Meta, the people who would actually have to weaken it, are publicly warning that it might. Either the companies building private messaging do not understand their own systems, or the reassurance is doing a lot of heavy lifting. We know which way we would bet.
#Encryption #Privacy

[Juno News @junonewscom]

Minister Marc Miller says the Safe Social Media Act balances age verification with privacy, will not break encryption, and excludes private messaging.

However, Apple and Meta warn Bill C-22 could break encryption and weaken private messaging protections.

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@junonewscom When a minister promises a law will not break encryption and the actual companies that build the encryption say it will, it is worth noticing who would have to do the breaking. Reassurance is easy to give when you are not the one being asked to weaken the thing.

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@hollyanndoan @MarcMillerVM @CdnHeritage This started the week as a bill about protecting kids. It is ending the week as a federal censor with blocking powers over anything deemed a threat to stability. Same bill number, considerably bigger reach than the headline suggested.

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@mindingottawa @MarcMillerVM Nothing reassures quite like a government giving itself the power to block whatever it decides threatens "social stability" and calling it a reasonable restriction. Third attempt in five years, so at least they are persistent about wanting the off switch.

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@RealNicoLagan The platform list is doing a bit of heavy lifting, but the core point lands. To keep one 15-year-old out, the system has to verify everyone, and a country where you show ID to use the internet is the actual outcome whether or not that was the pitch.

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⚽️Football is supposed to be universal, but the right to watch it somehow comes down to your postcode. The same World Cup match is free on TV in the UK while fans in India nearly had no legal way to see it at all, and that gap exists purely because of where you happen to live.

#WorldCup2026 #StreamingWars

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The internet shows you a price based on where it thinks you are. Move that pin, and the same flight can get noticeably cheaper. Summer is the worst time to pay the local tax on travel.

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This is the part they bury: to keep one 15-year-old out, the platform has to verify everyone. "Protect the kids" is how a national ID checkpoint for the entire internet gets waved through.

#Surveillance #DigitalRights

[Justice Centre for Constitutional Freedoms @JCCFCanada]

Bill C-34 creates a social media ban for Canadians under 16 at the expense of all Canadians' privacy.

Sections 26, 27(1), and 27(2) of Bill C-34 require that affected social media platforms “implement age-verification and age-estimation measures designed to prevent a person under the age of 16 from being able to have an account with, or be otherwise registered with,” those social media platforms.

Bill C-34 requires that such measures must provide for the “protection” and eventual “destruction” of “personal information that is collected for age-verification or age-estimation purposes.”

It is not yet clear how this will be accomplished. What is clear is that these measures must be “effective.” Users commonly verify their age by submitting government-issued identification documents, such as driver’s licenses or passports. And, the technology exists for social media platforms to estimate the ages of users through biometric data, e.g., facial geometry, eye shape, skin elasticity, hairline, etcetera.

This age-verification and age-estimation monitoring will not be limited to Canadians under age 16. For social media platforms to determine access eligibility for any user, platforms will have to evaluate the access eligibility of every user.

The goal of Bill C-34 is not merely to remove Canadians under age 16 from affected social media platforms but to keep them off those platforms. To achieve this goal, social media platforms may be compelled to adopt ongoing age-verification/estimation measures to ensure continued compliance.

However affected social media platforms satisfy these requirements, Bill C-34 fundamentally reimagines how all Canadians access social media.

This Bill deputizes affected social media platforms into forcing Canadians to surrender more data as a precondition of participation in the digital public square. This, in turn, raises serious concerns about Canadians' privacy rights and may engage constitutional protections against unreasonable search and seizure - guaranteed by section 8 of the Charter.

Read the full text of the bill here: https://t.co/BAHnXrsJIR

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@yegwave Funny how "protecting kids" always seems to require scanning every adult's face and ID first. The under-16s are the headline, verifying all Canadians is the actual feature.

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@JCCFCanada The detail everyone skips: to confirm you are not 15, the platform has to check everyone. A ban on under-16s quietly becomes an ID checkpoint for the entire country.

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Full breakdown of Bill C-34 and what it quietly leaves intact: https://t.co/QqR2PUpbmF

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They banned the kids and kept the algorithm. Canada's new law blocks under-16s from social media but leaves the engagement engines researchers blame for the harm completely untouched. The machinery stays. Only the users change.

#DigitalRights #Censorship

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The UK just announced it will require #Apple and #Google to activate device-wide nudity scanning on children's smartphones and tablets within 90 days or face legislation. The mandate covers all apps, all services, and the camera itself.

Signal published a statement the same day: this installs mass surveillance infrastructure that will not remain narrowly scoped once it exists. Genuine child safety requires funded education and social services, not on-device scanning that hands Apple, Google, and Microsoft consolidated control over personal data.

The UK is threatening criminal liability for tech executives who do not comply.

Device-wide scanning activated by government mandate, covering every app and the camera itself, with criminal penalties for non-compliance. They are calling it child protection. Signal is calling it what it is.

#Surveillance #DigitalRights

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Researchers found facial recognition code secretly embedded in #Meta AI, the companion app for Meta's smart glasses, capable of converting strangers' faces into biometric signatures in real time.

A June 5th app update quietly removed the entire system, including the "Person recognized" alert code, machine learning models, and biometric databases. Meta declined to say whether it plans to revive the feature and has not disclosed what it did with data gathered during internal testing.

Meta shut down facial recognition on #Facebook in 2021 after paying over $2 billion in biometric settlements. Then paid a $5 billion FTC fine for broader privacy violations. Then embedded facial recognition in glasses that identify strangers on the street.

#Surveillance #Privacy

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@GBPolitcs The White House is not concerned about British children. It is concerned about British legislation creating compliance costs for American platforms.
At least they said the quiet part out loud.

[GB Politics @GBPolitcs]

🚨NEW: White House officials have asked Keir Starmer not to ban social media for under-16s, arguing age restrictions will cause "disproportionate compliance burdens on American companies" and that it would be preferable to target “pornographic and adult commercial content... rather than broad social media bans”

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Using a #VPN in China carries fines of up to 15,000 yuan for individuals who only browse, with penalties nearly tenfold higher for distributors and the possibility of imprisonment for serious cases. There are no exemptions for personal use, research, or AI tools.

The Great Firewall actively detects and blocks VPN traffic fingerprints. Police network audits can surface VPN records from years prior, meaning past use is never as safe as it felt at the time.

State-approved VPNs exist and are tolerated for businesses. They offer access at the explicit cost of privacy, the government can see exactly where every connection goes.

Read full article 👇
https://t.co/HSsGTwjIkK

#InternetFreedom #DigitalRights

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Full report: https://t.co/AjByBAdJHT

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Mysterium VPN team scanned the open internet for cameras streaming live video with no login required. We found 21,786 of them.

Japan leads with 3,684 open feeds. The US follows with 3,283. These are not data centers, they resolve to residential internet providers. Cameras inside people's homes, broadcasting to strangers while their owners have no idea.

Budget recorders were open 27% of the time. One legacy webcam app hit 45.6%. Hikvision cameras, which made unique passwords mandatory years ago, were open just 0.06% of the time. The exposure lives entirely in cheap gear that was never designed to be secured.

We found every feed and deliberately did not look. Not everyone makes the same choice.

Full report link in the comments👇
#CyberSecurity #Privacy