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Keeping an eye on our human rights online to ensure we reclaim the lost ones and preserve the ones we have.
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[Open Rights Group @OpenRightsGroup]

Another small community run web forum announces it will shut due to the Online Safety Act. We warned the act would harm freedom of expression, and that's what is now happening. https://t.co/AWpicfk0WJ

[Fix it, dear EU @FixIt_EU]

Never forgotten. Never forget.

[Susan Swartz @beadmomsw]

Aaron Swartz would/should be 38 years old today.

[Patrick Breyer #JoinMastodon @echo_pbreyer]

🇬🇧Dutch Parliament just passed an exemplary resolution on #ChatControl with broad majority +++ "irreconcilable concerns about the proportionality of the European CSAM Regulation" +++ "detection order to be issued on the private communications of all citizens" is unacceptable +++ Government and experts to draft "an alternative European proposal to combat the dissemination of images of online child abuse"
https://t.co/5HbW8Vwn6j

[Meredith Whittaker @mer__edith]

Case in point: there's no way to build a backdoor that only the "good guys" can use.

When the entire technical community says that the EU's ChatControl legislation + similar pose serious cybersecurity threats, we're not exaggerating for effect.

[Fix it, dear EU @FixIt_EU]

Please sign

[Internet Archive @internetarchive]

Take action: Sign the open letter to publishers, asking them to restore access to the 500,000+ books removed from our library ⤵️ https://t.co/wnBnSDlTUQ

[Vas Panagiotopoulos @criticalvas]

⚠️A coalition of civil society organisations (incl. @accessnow @edri @privacyint @cdteu @efjeurope) is calling on the EU institutions to regulate #spyware technologies in the new legislative term.👇

https://t.co/A4r6C1yacB

[EDRi @edri]

🚨@EU_Commission is planning to stop funding for #FreeSoftware projects.

This will be a blow to #DigitalRights & the health of the internet.

The future of an open internet needs public funding ✊🏾

Read more from @fsfe and find out how you can help ⤵️https://t.co/H3zt3D6Y14

[Fix it, dear EU @FixIt_EU]

What's up in India? This does not look good

[Nikhil Pahwa @nixxin]

Under India's new draft Broadcast Bill, @taylorswift13 will need to get her songs evaluated by a Content Evaluation Committee in India, with people from women& child welfare, SC/ST reps.

You need better people for @MIB_India, @AshwiniVaishnaw.

The internet is not Cable TV.

[D3 - Defesa dos Direitos Digitais @direitosdig]

Para quem não estava por aqui da parte da manhã, uma 🧵 a não perder!

[That Privacy Guy @alexanderhanff]

#ChatControl vote suspended indefinitely (with regards to Belgian Presidency). This is huge news but it is not the end, Hungarian Presidency already has plans to prioritise this proposal over the next 6 months, so work must continue.

#privacy #masssurveillance #ethics #law

[Clothilde Goujard @clothildegouj]

The agenda point to potentially adopt a common position on the CSAM law has been removed, according to two EU diplomats.

[Alec Muffett @AlecMuffett]

The EU commissioner for Justice finally says the quiet part out loud, that the goal of #ChatControl is to break encrypted messaging.

Taken from https://t.co/1rjRAN7iYP

[EDRi @edri]

The EU Commission finally admits *on record* that its #CSARegulation proposal would 👏break 👏 encryption, as Vera Jourova's comments at @EU_EDPS Summit. This contradicts 3 years of @YlvaJohansson's : "#CSAR doesn't break encryption."

#ChatControl #EDPS20 #StopScanningMe

[Patrick Breyer #JoinMastodon @echo_pbreyer]

🇬🇧 It's up to all of us now. Write a mail to you government. Share the call to action. Call your government during the day. Together we are the resistance. Stop #ChatControl!

https://t.co/nGzsX2eX8W

[Diego Naranjo @_DiegoNaranjo]

And I am sure it is just a coincidence that this proposal is being pushed *right after* the European elections and not before

[Diego Naranjo @_DiegoNaranjo]

Along with the NSA, European governments who have been trying to undermine encryption for years.... There is no need to look to far. But yes, other intelligence agencies will be pleased as well with our new "standard" for encryption

[Patrick Breyer #JoinMastodon @echo_pbreyer]

"Für den Verbraucher würde die #Chatkontrolle mit einer deutlichen Verschlechterung des Angebots im Bereich der Messengerdienste einhergehen", warnt die Welt heute.

Bis zur Abstimmung morgen hast du noch einen Tag Zeit, die #Chatkontrolle zu stoppen: https://t.co/6Q9TZBXkGJ

[Meredith Whittaker @mer__edith]

Excellent and clear statement from @chaosupdates, who are holding the line as ever on encryption and fundamental rights in the EU and everywhere❤️🙏

https://t.co/ljGEHEhgbz

[EDRi @edri]

1/3 48 civil society orgs & 26 individual experts call on Member States representatives to ❌REJECT @EU2024BE's latest #CSAR compromise.

The text is flawed & harmful. It will enable #MassSurveillance & undermine #encryption.

Read more: https://t.co/x02d6Cr8Ij