Quintus Potgieter

Interested in the essence of things.
priv/acc'ing at @LudlowInstitute.
I put the Q in @Qessential_org

[Quintus Potgieter @QuintusRP]

South Africa joins the chorus of those phasing in 'digital ID'. Moving in lock step with the rest of the world, Ramaphosa is using migration as a convenient hot-button topic to usher it in. It's all very dystopian.

[Kaya News @KayaNews]

"Illegal immigration is facilitated by corruption," says Ramaphosa, vowing to hold those responsible accountable.

Ramaphosa touts progress to establish a Digital ID system, which includes the phasing out of green ID books.

KJ #KayaNews

[Julie Barrett @juliecbarrett]

The App Store Accountability Act is a de facto Digital ID. It will not give parents the "right to protect their kids" - it is, in fact, a government mandate. That is NOT parental authority, it's government-as-parent.

Mike Lee's bill will force every family into the same mandate. These tools for parents already exist, giving parents the ultimate flexibility, without requiring every citizen to provide verified data to Big Tech just to download an app.

This bill will not protect children, and it will not empower parents. We must say NO to Digital ID!!

[Project for Privacy & Surveillance Accountability @savingprivacy]

Surveillance behavior by the government, in direct defiance of the Fourth Amendment, has turned the Land of the Free into a nation of suspects.
https://t.co/BpilB6Uldl

[Quintus Potgieter @QuintusRP]

@PlayStalgiaX ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[Naomi Brockwell priv/acc @naomibrockwell]

I just spent 2 weeks in Europe with activists from some of the world's most oppressive regimes.

One question kept coming up: what are the red flags that people in "free" countries aren't seeing?

Turns out there are many.

https://t.co/FVeXd619fe
https://t.co/KliDUq7fLQ

[CoinDesk @CoinDesk]

🎥 As ZCash faces renewed concerns over potential exploits, @zooko warned in a past interview with CoinDesk that protecting privacy against future quantum computers needs to be prioritized now.

[Reclaim The Net @ReclaimTheNetHQ]

Parents searched their kids' symptoms on Seattle Children's Hospital's website. Then they got Facebook ads for those exact symptoms. Turns out the hospital had Meta's tracking code running the whole time.

[Preston Byrne @prestonjbyrne]

No, but some adult who is buying an Apple device for the first time today will have to show their papers before they can use the Internet.

Here’s hoping this law gets struck down as savagely as it deserves to be.

[Quintus Potgieter @QuintusRP]

And it still won't reach South Africa because of petty politics. Do you have any idea how subpar the Afrihost/MTN 5G package is compared to what we could have with Starlink? Absolutely grotesque.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Starlink V3 satellites have >10X bandwidth of V2 and there’ll be >10X launched, which means >100X more bandwidth.

Also, altitude will be 350km vs 550km, so min latency can be cut in half.

Light travels 300km/ms in space, so physics round trip min latency drops to <5ms.

[Quintus Potgieter @QuintusRP]

Install a privacy preserving keyboard rn

[AlternativeTo @AlternativeTo]

⌨️ FUTO Keyboard 0.1.29 introduces FUTO Swipe for improved swipe typing accuracy, surpassing Gboard and others. It also offers customizable suggestions and gestures, support for Unicode 17 emojis, and enhances privacy-focused features.
https://t.co/30VHeI6EWv

[Quintus Potgieter @QuintusRP]

@Polymarket Simpsons predicted it

[Paul Atkins @SECPaulSAtkins]

President Reagan once said, “The nine most terrifying words in the English language are: I'm from the Government, and I'm here to help.”

Over my 3 tours at the SEC, I have discovered six equally terrifying words: “We should create another disclosure requirement."

@RonaldReagan

[Reclaim The Net @ReclaimTheNetHQ]

California's Assembly voted 76 to 0 to advance a bill that'll create millions of new identity records, ID scans, and face checks, parked with private companies. The stated goal is keeping under-16s off social media. We all know what's really going on.

[Quintus Potgieter @QuintusRP]

S01E02
https://t.co/3Ev2UTNdfc

[BBC News (UK) @BBCNews]

Meta workers can opt out of being tracked at work - but only for half an hour at a time https://t.co/pX8OuVoWz4

[Quintus Potgieter @QuintusRP]

S01E01 of Absurd Surveillance Tech

[Wall Street Apes @WallStreetApes]

These are the brand new disguised Automated License Plate Reader cameras in Arizona

The large yellow plastic barrels are camouflaged housings designed to look like construction equipment

They are being deployed in remote desert areas along highways

These new camouflaged cameras are a partnership between Flock and law enforcement and the plan is to use them extensively to track vehicle movement and broader surveillance

We are witnessing the surveillance state being established in America… this only ends in mass surveillance

[Project for Privacy & Surveillance Accountability @savingprivacy]

FISA Section 702 has been warped and abused into a domestic surveillance tool, and the statute could flag VPNs as a surveillance target.
https://t.co/i5l52I1lY9

[Unredacted 🗽 @unredacted_org]

The free and open Internet is on the decline, and has been for 15 years and counting

Now is time - more than ever to show your support for Internet Freedom 👇

[binji @binji_x]

Was asked what the world will look like if we win:

[Quintus Potgieter @QuintusRP]

@WallStreetApes Ok wow. @JensTwoCentsAZ your fight is our fight! This is grotesque.