The UK has threatened tech companies to comply with device level image screening
Apple and Google aren't the victims
They're the surveilence infrastructure
Max Hampshire, @_wjth, DevRel at @nymproject, is demoing the Nym Mixnet live at Privacy Späti - showing how to unlink your wallet transactions and hide yourself in noise.
June 19, The Blockspäti, Berlin Blockchain Week.
This week so far
Taliban bans smartphones for all government officials and students
The UK demands tech companies to install image scanning software
How long until the UK bans smartphones for all government officials?
The Home Office just handed Apple and Google a government mandate to scan every image on every device.
That's not a fine. That's a business opportunity.
This is how mass surveillance arrives on every device.
🚨 Tech companies like Apple and Google have three months.
Activate safeguards on smartphones and tablets to detect and block nude images for children or we will bring forward legislation to force you to do so.
"Child safety looks like well-funded education, robust social services.. .the UK government wants instead is invisible surveillance infrastructure, switched on by default"
Signal's statement on the UK proposal to scan all content on phones⤵️
Our statement on the UK government’s demand that all content on all devices sold or used in the country be scanned, on the presumption of nudity, using a dystopian combination of age verification and content scanning. This proposal will not safeguard children. It endangers us all.
https://t.co/VdWe9uhi8p
Your transaction is only one part of the privacy problem!
Metadata shows timing, routing, frequency, and behavior patterns.
This week, we’re talking with @nym about mixnets, metadata protection, and what this means for builders shipping wallets, payments, DeFi, AI, and privacy-sensitive apps.
Mandatory phone scanning won't make you a good parent.
It will lead down a path where under 16-year-olds only have access to government sanctioned information.
There is also the side effect of making them the next generation of VPN experts.
This government will not stand by while children are put at risk online.
Today I am calling on the tech companies to introduce device-level controls to prevent children from taking, sharing or viewing nude images.
And if they don’t act, we will.
Sony PlayStation is reporting GrapheneOS users to the authorities.
If you try to age verify using GrapheneOS you are labeled a security risk, for trying to follow the rules while using a secure operating system.
‼️🚨 BREAKING: Sony PlayStation's age-verification partner Yoti is reporting GrapheneOS users to authorities for using GrapheneOS, due to "past security concerns."
Snowden said it in 2013
"Arguing that you don't care about privacy because you have nothing to hide is like arguing you don't care about free speech because you have nothing to say."
"We are hoping Nym enables the next Edward Snowden"
Nym CEO @harryhalpin on the anniversary of the Snowden revelations and what that means in the age of Palantir and AI surveillance.