Gunnar Andreassen

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[CyberInsider @CyberInsidercom]

Signal and Mullvad warn about the UK’s plans to scan people's phones

#Signal #Mullvad #UK

https://t.co/Zhkfg2whIn

[Interesting AF @interesting_aIl]

A German court ruled that Google is liable for false statements found in its AI search box

[Bull Theory @BullTheoryio]

BREAKING: The UK is drafting a law to scan every photo, video and message on every phone in the country.

Tech CEOs who refuse to implement this could face up to 5 years in prison.

The proposal would force companies to build device level scanners that inspect content before encryption.

That means:

• Every image scanned
• Every message inspected
• Every video analyzed

All directly on your phone.

Governments and companies pushing these safety” systems already have a terrible track record protecting user data.

Last month, Europe’s new age verification app, promoted as a way to "keep children safe," was hacked in under 2 minutes.

In another case, over 70,000 IDs and selfies linked to online verification systems were exposed in a major breach.

Now the UK wants even deeper access directly inside your device.

Once governments force surveillance tools into every phone, they can expand what gets monitored at any time.

[Big Brother Watch @BigBrotherWatch]

🆔Starmer's plans for child-locked devices is a Trojan horse for digital ID

"The only way to escape Starmer’s Great British Firewall and get regular internet access is to undergo a digital ID check on the device to register yourself as an adult user.

Convenient, perhaps, for a Prime Minister who has failed to get a digital ID system through the front door" - @silkiecarlo

[BRITAIN IS BROKEN 🇬🇧 @BROKENBRITAIN0]

🚨BREAKING: The President of the messaging app Signal has threatened to STOP all services in the UK due to government regulations and overreach 🇬🇧

[Secure Privacy @SecurePrivacyAI]

TikTok tracks keystrokes in its in-app browser.
LinkedIn reads clipboard without asking.
Instagram tracks you across non-Meta sites.

You're not paranoid about apps.
You're paying attention to disclosures buried in their ToS updates.

[International Cyber Digest @IntCyberDigest]

‼️ Google is about to disable all adblocker extensions in Chrome. Instead of letting the adblocker inspect traffic itself, extensions now have to hand Google's browser a limited list of filtering rules and hope for the best. This leads to weaker blocking and more ads getting through.

Google makes the vast majority of its money selling ads. The company that profits from every ad you see also controls the browser most people use, with Chrome 149 being the last version supporting adblockers.

For example, under the new rules, uBlock Origin cannot exist. For millions of people, that extension is the only thing standing between them and a wall of ads, trackers, and autoplay garbage. One user put it bluntly: "The web is literally unusable without uBlock Origin."

[Fiona Rose Diamond @CoviLeaks]

Digital Surveillance, Facial Recognition, 'Data Centres,' 15 Minute Cities, 'Under 16s' ban, VPN Ban, Digital Verification, AI Tech Towns (Barnsley, South Yorkshire), AI in court, AI in NHS, Palantir and of course UK Gov Digital Wallet (the real Digital ID - people tracking super cookie) bull shit pro-AI/pro-tech headlines... ALL PART OF THE SAME PLAN.

When's the uprising?

Oh that's right - people still don't see quite how catastrophic this is, nor the digital panopticon gulag we are speeding towards. Really didn't want this to be another 'we told you so'...

[The Future of Free Speech @SpeechFuture]

Ending anonymity. Expanding speech bans. State-ordered takedowns. These are pillars of the Internet in China, Russia, and Iran.

Increasingly, they have become features of European policy. In @ForeignAffairs, @JMchangama examines how Europe lost the plot on online speech.

[Mike McMullen 🇮🇪 🇨🇦 @truthtrain101]

Here are headlines from the UK, Canada, New Zealand, and Australia.

Simultaneously, they all want a social media ban. "To protect the children".

Our governments aren't calling the shots; they're following orders.

This is just one example. Every law passed happens in the exact same way in all for 4 countries. This cannot be possible unless each leader of each country works for the exact same people.

Our leaders are not elected; they are installed.

#UK #NewZealand #Canada #Austrailia

[Elise Larsen 🇳🇴✝️ @jesusergud]

Forslaget utvider PSTs (Politiets sikkerhetstjeneste) adgang til å bruke skjulte tvangsmidler (som kommunikasjonskontroll, dataavlesing, teknisk sporing, ransaking og innbrudd for å plassere utstyr) i forebyggende øyemed.

Dette gjelder ikke bare terror, men også sabotasjehandlinger (straffeloven), ulovlig etterretningsvirksomhet og brudd på eksportkontrollregelverket.

Det åpner også for hjemmeinnbrudd i flere tilfeller og gir hastekompetanse til PST-sjefen.

Dette innebærer en utvidelse av statens mulighet til å gripe inn i privatlivet FØR det foreligger en konkret straffbar handling eller full etterforskning.

Slike tiltak er i utgangspunktet svært inngripende og berører grunnlovens og EMK artikkel 8s vern av privatliv, hjem og korrespondanse.

Det svekker individets rettssikkerhet ved å utvide preventiv statlig inntrengning.

[Nav Toor @heynavtoor]

YouTube deleted 16.7 million videos in six months.

Gone.

Channels you subscribed to.
Tutorials you bookmarked.
Music you saved for later.
Creators you supported for years.

Gone.

So one engineer named Simon, originally from Switzerland, now living in South East Asia, built a tool that ends this forever.

It is called TubeArchivist.

Nearly 8,000 stars on GitHub. GPL-3.0. Free.

It downloads any YouTube channel you subscribe to, stores every video on your own server, and gives you a Netflix-style library you fully own.

No ads.
No "this video is no longer available."
No algorithm.
No Premium subscription.

Then YouTube did the unthinkable.

July 18, 2024. They rolled out the "Sign in to confirm you're not a bot" wall.
October 29, 2024. They started IP-banning entire data centers. Hetzner gone. OVH gone.

Coincidence.

Here is the wildest part.

TubeArchivist did not fold.

March 28, 2026. Simon shipped v0.5.10. New release. Same one engineer. 17x more commits than anyone else on the repo.

It still works.
It still downloads.
It still restores the dislike count YouTube deleted in November 2021.

One Swiss engineer vs. a trillion-dollar ad machine.

YouTube Premium costs $13.99 a month. $167.88 a year. Forever.

TubeArchivist costs zero. Forever.

But DO NOT install it. We should all keep paying Google $168 a year to watch the videos we already chose to watch.

100% Open Source. (Link in the comments)

[SPEAK UK @speakukorg]

In Australia, many kids just got around social media bans.

But adults still have to hand over ID to access social media.

Do we really want to do this in the UK?

[Mario Nawfal @MarioNawfal]

🇩🇪 Google held 34 meetings with top German government officials to discuss suppressing "hate speech" and "disinformation" online.

Most were confidential and some were deemed "not suitable for public knowledge."

The meetings, revealed through a parliamentary question filed by the opposition AfD, included then-Chancellor Olaf Scholz and Google CEO Sundar Pichai, who attended 4 personally.

The implications go beyond Germany. Under the EU's Digital Services Act, content removed or algorithmically downranked applies globally, not just within EU borders.

If the secret meetings between a government and Google to shape what people can find online aren't information control, what is?

Source: Daily Sceptic, ZeroHedge / Writer: Julie

[Marcus Cook @Marcusman1411]

This is Absolutely outrageous.

I think Apple’s advance data protection is a very powerful tool. Yet the UK Government blocked it as they demanded for access to our data.

Repeal this @UKParliament NOW.

@RestoreBritain will Restore your right to privacy.

[Justine Brooke Murray @Justine_Brooke]

We no longer call criminals “criminals,” because that implies those poor underprivileged criminals must take any responsibility for stabbing people!

[Computer ♥ Records @ComputerLove_]

17 years ago today, Apple unveiled the iPhone 3GS at WWDC.

[Jason Bassler @JasonBassler1]

🚨 Turns out Meta Ray-Ban glasses ARE actually equipped with facial recognition tech even though Meta said they weren't. Not only do the glasses detect a face, it also automatically encodes the face into a unique biometric signature.

Surveillance creep IS the business model.

[Anya Geimanson @AnyaGeimanson]

A @Shopify brand lifted conversion rate 6.2% by removing ONE thing from their collection page.

They removed the banner. That’s it.

WHY IT WORKS:

Collection pages are for finding products, not branding.

A big static hero pushes the grid down (especially on mobile) → fewer products seen → fewer product page views.

Sometimes: no banner → more products above the fold → more PDP clicks → higher conversion.

IMPORTANT TO NOTE:

If your banner adds real decision help (quick filters, promo/shipping/returns info), it may be worth keeping.

This is mainly for the static “brand-y” banner.

Don’t assume.

A/B test it.