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#privacy #surveillance #humanrights #security #censorship #digitalrights

[redstaranon @redstaranon]

Assange full speech to the EU Parliament 🇪🇺
welcome back @JulianAssange_
thank you for all you have done, for giving away your own freedom for #PressFreedom
the world owns you.

https://t.co/lM4awols3T

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https://t.co/CuJfkdgGBo

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If we're soon to be plugging computers directly into our brains, how can we protect that connection from those who want to attack them?
#bci #security #privacy
https://t.co/N3qG1XudNZ

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I know that it sounds like an oxymoron coming from them..
and that probably if they advise that, they probably have already a workaround..nevertheless..

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“While it may not always be possible to completely prevent the exposure of location information, it is possible—through careful configuration and use—to reduce the amount of location data shared”
NSA guide to location #privacy https://t.co/Gb678wTTFa
pdf: https://t.co/V2lzGHXBYy

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#hiljadekamera initiative gathers citizens, activists and human rights organisations asking for transparency and opening a wide public debate on the system of non-selective invasion of constitutional rights.
#surveillance
https://t.co/klWgzavNTu
https://t.co/NiM82RxrFB

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Internet #privacy ranking 2020
for the whole list⤵️
https://t.co/NI2vcinXK4
14 of the top 20 countries are European (the U.S. placed 18th)
the last 3 are Cambodia Uzbekistan and China
https://t.co/WSDYRBitqP

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Even without the new legislation, Turkey blocked access to more than 400,000 websites by the end of 2019.
Over the years, thousands of people have been subject to criminal proceedings for insulting Mr. Erdogan in posts on social media.

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The measure orders social media platforms with over one million users per day to open offices in #Turkey.
They will be responsible to block/remove content that is deemed offensive within 48 hrs.
It requires to store user data inside the country.
https://t.co/hHW3jsLlTQ
#privacy

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Obtaining info about people's private traits from behavioural patterns passively collected from their smartphones.
The accuracy of these predictions is similar to that found for predictions based on digital footprints from social media platforms
https://t.co/6Q9JhPGKDq
#privacy

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The NYPD's Chief of Department told officers no stupid law was going to keep them from restraining people to death.
“We can’t be afraid. We’ve got every D.A. come out and say they’re not going to charge that,” Chief Terence Monahan said.
https://t.co/eC6927C69P
#PoliceBrutality

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It would be nice to live in a world with fewer impositions on #privacy.
it’s good to know how to hide.
Few methods to hide from drones.
A simple umbrella seems to be the most cheap and efficient tool.
https://t.co/bs7V3EcNTd
#surveillance

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"no amount of even the most perfect #surveillance, no amount of repression or rent-seeking, can or will change who we are"
"The changing of an age takes more than lasers and traffic cones: it takes the hands that hold them.
It takes you."
https://t.co/u2dbG7Hh3x

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Over about eight years, the American drugstore chain Rite Aid Corp quietly added facial recognition systems to 200 stores across the US, in one of the largest rollouts of such technology among retailers in the country
https://t.co/d4ooFMprgi
#privacy #surveillance

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15 out of 28 desktop PDF viewer applications are vulnerable to a new attack that lets malicious threat actors modify the content of digitally signed PDF documents.
#shadowattack #Security
https://t.co/p5viC25eHf

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"It is a form of anticipatory obedience.
Being aware of the possibility of getting (unjustly) caught by these algorithms, people may tend to increase conformity with perceived societal norms.
Self-expression and alternative lifestyles could be suppressed.”

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an interesting article and statistics about how expensive #surveillance
tools are useless.
https://t.co/slOeT6L47j

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The SAND Lab at University of Chicago has developed #Fawkes, an algorithm and software tool (running locally on your computer) that gives individuals the ability to limit how their own images can be used to track them.
it's free to download here:
https://t.co/IP4vY8o7QE
#privacy

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@googlemaps you missed one state: #Palestine
Please fix your maps according to basic geography and international law of recognized States.
Thanks.

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"As we build #AI tools,
it’s worthwhile to consider a key question:
As our world moves toward relying on intelligent agents, how can we create a system that individuals and communities can trust?”
#ethics
https://t.co/bVFcgjC1j1