Seth Honda

Seth Honda is a computer science and literature teacher with a background in bioinformatics. He grew up in Hawaii and builds privacy software in his spare time.

[Seth Honda @sethhonda404]

Something I tell my students that we could all learn a bit from: you have AI at home. It's been honed by millions of years of evolution and lives in your skull.

[Seth Honda @sethhonda404]

@nym This raises the fundamental question of how the government can call something “evidence” before establishing what was on the device or why they were entitled to search it?

This sets the dangerous precedent that individuals must justify why they protect their personal information

[Seth Honda @sethhonda404]

@christian_tail @vxdb It's crazy we have to resort to tools like grapheneOS to protect our most basic privacy rights.

[Seth Honda @sethhonda404]

@ScottMGreer Rights rarely disappear all at once. They become difficult to exercise, then dangerous to exercise, and eventually no longer a right. This is what persistent surveillance enables and noramalizes.

[Seth Honda @sethhonda404]

Rights rarely disappear all at once. They become difficult to exercise, then dangerous to exercise, and eventually no longer a right.

[Naomi Brockwell priv/acc @naomibrockwell]

Vilifying Palantir or Flock alone is a trap.

They're just 2 examples of 1000s of surveillance companies.

The enemy is the entire warrantless mass surveillance industry, and that's what we have to dismantle.

[Seth Honda @sethhonda404]

@naomibrockwell Online surveillance used to be forensic. Something happened, then investigators had to go looking. Now, government systems continuously sort, connect, and report people in near real time.

Flock. Equifax. Google. Meta. X. Palantir. Their names are many.

[Seth Honda @sethhonda404]

Great conversation from the folks at @techpolicypress demystifying how the DHS and CBP is using its newly minted $170 Billion budget to pursue its goal of deporting one million people every year.

https://t.co/NieWiOVlf7

[Seth Honda @sethhonda404]

Online surveillance used to be forensic. Something happened, then investigators had to find out who posted this or who searched for this info.

Now, ad-tech, data brokers, contractors, and government systems continuously sort, connect, and report people in near real time.

[Secure Privacy @SecurePrivacyAI]

The FBI can't legally collect your location history without a warrant.

So it buys it instead.

Same data.
Same surveillance.
No warrant required.

The loophole isn't a bug.
It's the business model.

[Seth Honda @sethhonda404]

@nym It should be a right.

[Seth Honda @sethhonda404]

@naomibrockwell These ideas go back to the 1700s as governments tried to establish control over their people by understanding them better and forcing them into control-areas.

The surveillance state is a gross expansion of these ideas and their implementations.

[Flesh Simulator @fleshsimulator]

Look, as nice as it would be to never be forced to read the opinion of a 16 year old again, SURELY you all understand the problem with needing an ID to log onto the internet, right?

[Seth Honda @sethhonda404]

While I enjoy seeing @Flock_Safety as a common enemy, there are bigger players.

Your online activity is being monitored with even more pervasiveness and companies like @Google and @PalantirTech are very happy to see us without their names in our mouths.

Remember the enemy.

[Seth Honda @sethhonda404]

@FinalCutTile While I enjoy seeing @Flock_Safety as a common enemy, there are bigger players.

Your online activity is being monitored with even more pervasiveness and companies like @Google and @PalantirTech are very happy to see us without their names in our mouths.

Remember the enemy.

[Andy @PositivFuturist]

Bravo Mullvad

[Seth Honda @sethhonda404]

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[Seth Honda @sethhonda404]

While the KIDS act passed today, there was a major win in the supreme court in Chatrie v US.

The SC sends Okello Chatrie's case back to lower courts to determine if the geofence warrant served on Google was constitutional.

[Seth Honda @sethhonda404]

SCOTUS held that obtaining location data through a geofence warrant is a Fourth Amendment search.

The Court rejected the government’s argument that Chatrie relinquished his Fourth Amendment protections because he had previously given Google permission to use his location data.

[Seth Honda @sethhonda404]

@nym And commercial contractors, @flock_safety, @ring, and @Leonardo_live, to name a few.