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Hello, I’m just a reposter who well, reposts what I believe maybe alarming or informational to what’s happening. I’m aware not much will see this.

[IT Guy @T3chFalcon]

Signal did it in the UK. NordVPN, Windscribe are doing it in Canada.

Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act — passed third reading and is awaiting Royal Assent. it requires telecoms to install government surveillance infrastructure. lowers the legal threshold for law enforcement to access your data, removes the requirement to review surveillance orders before extending them.

VPN companies say the bill forces them to design surveillance into their own systems.

they're threatening to exit the Canadian market entirely rather than comply.

Protect the children.

[Reclaim The Net @ReclaimTheNetHQ]

The British government is rolling out facial recognition eGates at 13 airports by early 2027 and selling it as a time-saver.

Using an eGate used to take 20 to 25 seconds, and the new system knocks five seconds off that.

Your face is photographed as you walk up and matched against passport photos the airlines have already handed to border control.

This is the same government building a digital ID it swears police won’t be able to search, while consulting on letting police search it.

https://t.co/4EZ1R6Khnv

[Stop Killing Games Official @StopKilingGames]

The @EU_Commission said no to legislation with the Stop Destroying Videogames European Citizens' Initiative (ECI). We're taking the fight to the Digital Fairness Act.
Join us in Brussels on Saturday 17 October for Fair Play in the Digital Fairness Act!
📅 Sat 17 Oct, 15:30 to 18:30 CEST
📍 Steigenberger Hotel, Brussels
Register: https://t.co/aPPuCl7eGS
Co-organised with Internet Archive Europe

🎮Panel 1 | Ownership 2.0: you bought it, who owns it?

If a publisher can switch off a game you paid for, did you ever own it? What would a DFA amendment on ownership and preservation actually say? @Moritz_Katzner , @kdrazewski and @julienmasanes discuss what the Digital Fairness Act must fix.

Panel 2 | Papers, please: the internet after age verification
Paul Diegel, James Baker and Professor @bpreneel1 of @KU_Leuven on age checks, ID checks and the lessons of the Discord breach.

Both panels moderated by @linotherhino (@the_info_labs )

After the event, join us at the Stop Killing Games Gala Reception where you can meet, greet, discuss, and share ideas with the people behind #StopKillingGames and #StopKillingInternet !

[Uy | Yoko kurama’s lover | ✮ COMS OPEN 0/15 @R0seFox]

PLEASE SPREAD AWARENESS TO WHATS HAPPENING IN BRAZIL!!
I asked oomf about the situation bc I had relatives in that country, basically a person named flavio is going through the presidential elections but hes a horrible, basically like trump. If he wins brazil is doomed

[Reclaim The Net @ReclaimTheNetHQ]

Report: White House Fears UK Apple iCloud Backdoor Targets Trump, Farage

https://t.co/LjLWcm0k0V

[Reclaim The Net @ReclaimTheNetHQ]

A French mayor wants to cut minors off from social media whenever the streets get tense. France’s highest administrative court already ruled that blocking TikTok in New Caledonia was illegal. The Constitutional Council struck down the under-15 ban in August as disproportionate. Every time France has trouble (which is often) someone reaches for the off switch.

https://t.co/Gdi3kQrJ4x

[Reclaim The Net @ReclaimTheNetHQ]

Google is challenging a Las Vegas police warrant that demands the identity of everyone who searched a set of keywords. The case involves the July killing of a homeless woman. The keywords, the number of people affected, and most other details are sealed.

Google calls it an illegal general warrant and says it is facially invalid under federal and state constitutional provisions.

The filing also revealed that Las Vegas and Henderson police have served Google with numerous reverse search warrants before. A gag order barred Google from telling the public for months.

Nevada has no law on reverse search warrants. No federal appellate court has ruled on whether keyword searches count as a search at all.

The first hearing is set for late October.

https://t.co/jG3oGzT4ue

[Reclaim The Net @ReclaimTheNetHQ]

Aaron Sorkin directed his own Facebook movie so it would come out just before the midterms. Its hero is Frances Haugen, who campaigned for higher social media age limits and praised the UK's online censorship law.

The film arrives as age verification digital ID checks spread everywhere. Meta has agreed to ID check or face scan every Facebook and Instagram user in 51 states and territories. Florida wants every user in the state age-checked within 30 days. The EU wants a state-certified credential before anyone can open a social media account.

Hollywood is selling the story while governments write the laws. Sorkin has made a two-hour advert for speech control and the ID checks it thinks you should need to access social media...

https://t.co/B6Uv75hcid

[Reclaim The Net @ReclaimTheNetHQ]

Apple chairman Tim Cook is backing the EU KIDS Act, which would bring app stores and operating systems into scope for age verification.

Age verification means identity verification. Under the KIDS Act, that check would happen at the device level, before anyone downloads an app.

Cook discussed the proposal with Ursula von der Leyen in New York. This week he told Roberta Metsola and MEPs that Apple was “very encouraged” by it. He also reportedly called Australia’s age verification rules “world-leading.”

The EU’s own age verification app was hacked in under two minutes in April, with scanned ID documents stored unencrypted.

https://t.co/WdypixePsb

[Reclaim The Net @ReclaimTheNetHQ]

Florida’s attorney general is asking a court to make Meta verify the age of every Facebook and Instagram user in the state. Accounts of under-14s that fail to verify within 30 days get marked for deletion.

The motion goes further. It wants teen accounts to be subjected to a state-enforced lock-in to quiet mode from 9 p.m. to 8 a.m. year-round, and during school hours on weekdays. It wants like counts hidden, autoplay and infinite scroll switched off, and a cap of 60 hours a month.

Last week it also asked a court to order OpenAI to build age verification for ChatGPT.

You cannot check teenagers without checking everyone. Every adult in Florida would have to hand over ID or a face scan to keep using these platforms and have access to speech.

https://t.co/i48sXD5gUG

[Protecting Kids Online @PKOproject]

Last week Rand Paul blocked KOSA by objecting to a unanimous-consent request from Blackburn and Blumenthal. This was enough to stop the fast track, but the bill is not dead.

What happens next:
🔸Senate is in pro forma sessions until it returns for real business, expected around November 9
🔸Any remaining path for KOSA needs a scheduled floor vote, cloture at 60, debate, then a deal with the House
🔸If it does not clear both chambers before January 3, 2027, this Congress ends and the bill dies

Blumenthal has already said he wants a floor vote when they return. And Ted Cruz pledged in May that KOSA would become law this year. But Thune will decide if the bill gets scheduled for a floor vote.

House KOSA (KIDS Act) passed in June, but doesn't include the "duty of care" the Senate KOSA has.
Blackburn and Blumenthal have said the House version is DOA in the Senate.

"Duty of care" is the censorship and surveillance mechanism. It will require age verification and content censorship - neither of which protect children online.

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[D0ktorMeph🇵🇸🌱#OFFICESMP @Malakyach666]

We're in danger

Brazil will go on to the second round of voting and the right wing party is way ahead. The same party who let thousands of people die and is planning with the US to intervine on votes.

Please don't stop talking about Brazil. Use your voice. I don't want to die.

[Pirat_Nation 🔴 @Pirat_Nation]

Double Counter’s data breach may be much bigger than initially reported, someone in contact with the hacker just sent me more info

The stolen database allegedly contained much more:

-21.7 million verified user records
IP addresses, geographic data, ISPs and Discord usernames
-44.1 million device fingerprint records
14.5 GB of device fingerprint data
-31 million server records
-19.2 million lens-counter records
-14.6 million VPN-attempt records
-831,000 Google user records
~220,000 user emails
~1.08 million Google search records
-A database around 39 GB

>The source also claims Double Counter’s GDPR deletion system did not actually remove all user data.

>According to them, the /privacy deletion command allegedly only removed a user’s current IP, while other information could remain stored, including emails, alternate accounts, their IPs and connections between main and alternate accounts.

>They also claim Double Counter staff deleted messages and banned users who questioned how much data had actually been leaked.

>The source further described an attack chain:
Metabase breach → plaintext password found → same password used on the server → SSH access → logged-in Google Cloud CLI session → access to the cloud environment → database downloaded.

They claim the attackers also obtained secrets, runtime logs and the entire Discord support ticket history.

>One ticket reportedly involved a user warning Double Counter that an ad on its verification page was malicious but the owner refused to remove it because the ad revenue was needed to pay for the servers.

[Pirat_Nation 🔴 @Pirat_Nation]

A new data breach involving Double Counter has exposed information connected to Discord users affecting around 275,000 unique email addresses.

According to Have I Been Pwned, the exposed data includes:

-Email addresses
-Discord usernames
-Names
-Geographic information
-Country and postcode for some paying subscribers

The breach was linked to a vulnerability in Metabase, the analytics platform used by Double Counter.

If you’ve used Double Counter on Discord, check whether your email was affected and stay alert for phishing attempts or suspicious Discord messages.

[MR. OBVIOUS @ObviousRises]

PETITION AGAINST INTERNET/DIGITAL ID AND AGE VERIFICATION.

EUROS RISE UP.
https://t.co/0Z647UGQeo

[DeepHumor @DeepHumor]

YouTube marked this content creator as under 16, despite him already verifying his identity. Absolute insanity

[Reclaim The Net @ReclaimTheNetHQ]

Speech Police UK: Four West Midlands officers turned up at the home of a 15-year-old, arrested him, and took his phone and laptop.

His offense was a set of Facebook posts about Conservative councillor Simon Bennett. One complained about shorts and sneakers at a scrutiny committee. Another had rabbit ears Photoshopped onto the councillor's photo. The boy was questioned, bailed, and banned from attending council meetings in Wolverhampton.

Police have not explained why it took four officers or why any turned up at all.

The Free Speech Union says there was plainly no offense and plans to sue for wrongful arrest and false imprisonment. The councillor says the police thought it merited an arrest. Police then wonder why public trust keeps falling.

https://t.co/W6I9MEsSRw

[Reclaim The Net @ReclaimTheNetHQ]

The UK government wants a passport, a driving license or a face scan before you can open a new social media account. This is the same country that arrests people over tweets. Britain has jailed people for what they posted online and now the state wants to know exactly who is behind every account before the first post goes up.

The ban covers Instagram, YouTube, TikTok, Snapchat, Facebook and X, and it is expected to start in spring 2027.

Discord already leaked government IDs after it introduced age checks. There is no reliable, privacy-preserving way to verify the age of every internet user. A pile of faces and passports linked to social media accounts is a gift to a government that prosecutes speech.

https://t.co/bYGks8GGnI

[Reclaim The Net @ReclaimTheNetHQ]

British Transport Police scanned the faces of 537,697 people at London railway stations over six months. The trial produced one alert, and that alert was false. It cost £320,786 ($424,000)

The police responded by extending the trial by four months and expanding the area. Since then, 926,912 people have been scanned in total. The system has made only three correct identifications, and every one of them ended with no action. The arrest column still reads zero.

The watchlist, meanwhile, has grown from 381 names to 862. Transport for London welcomed the expansion and said it would tackle violence against women and girls.

More than half of the police forces in England and Wales now scan faces in public, and every failed trial is treated as a reason to scan more of them.

https://t.co/0WGaXBNAcV

[Reclaim The Net @ReclaimTheNetHQ]

The music industry has asked the EU to add yt-dlp, an open source video downloader, to its Counterfeit and Piracy Watch List. IFPI's submission even names the volunteer developers who maintain it. It also wants Cloudflare, GoDaddy and Verisign on the list, because apparently the company running .com is now a piracy concern.

LaLiga has gone after NordVPN, ProtonVPN, ExpressVPN and Surfshark over affiliate blogs it never names or links to. A Spanish court already threw out its last attempt to fine NordVPN.

The Commission insists the list makes no findings of legal violations. It just tells the world which lawful tools the entertainment industry would like to see gone...

https://t.co/Pm0GR9qMDg