Mark Lizar

instigator of 0PN: Standard Open Public Transparency Infrastructure Champion of Transparency & Consent Receipt Digital Trust for Humans, ISO/IEC 27560 Champion

[Freedom of the Press Foundation @FreedomofPress]

Amendments to a Canadian surveillance bill shortened the length of time providers would have to store your conversational metadata. That's still a no-go for Signal.

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[Mark Lizar @smartopian]

thats why it Should be technologically proportionate and recipricol

[Privacy International @privacyint]

Around the world, tech is increasingly being used to stifle dissent, assert control and diminish human rights.

Our new Global Report on the Authoritarian Use of Technology documents how states are deploying surveillance technologies.

https://t.co/B5QzlndVLc

[Mark Lizar @smartopian]

@privacyint We spent a lot of time 2009-2013 researching and advocating for transparency in surveillance. AI Surveillance must be transparent, proportionate and fair to be legitimate. Since 2013 we have developed standard which is now being standardised for Surveillance Receipts. 27560

[Privacy International @privacyint]

We are deeply concerned by news that Preston City Council has more than 100 CCTV cameras with facial recognition technology enabled. https://t.co/hK17Yn9TLl

[Luis Montezuma | @[email protected] @montezumachavez]

December has arrived!

Can third-party providers be held liable for cookies used without consent? The German Federal Court of Justice is set to issue a groundbreaking decision on December 17.

Please read Tilman Herbrich's post about last week's hearing: https://t.co/PWnsgTA78E.

[Mark Lizar @smartopian]

Everyone is recorded all the time by the Data Barons, with cookies and pixel tracking etc. but is black-box - back door digital id and AI. Not front door, glassboxed - and fair.
Same issue as robber-barons and land-barons before them.

[Mark Lizar @smartopian]

Trump is obv desperate, he is going to use all resources he has to try and stay in power. Including war if the American ppl let him. He knows he is has committed serious crimes he is going to have to pay for if he looses power. His, is not a winning game.

[The Rage @theragetech]

🚨NEW: HACKERS EXPOSE AGE-VERIFICATION SOFTWARE POWERING SURVEILLANCE WEB

Three hacktivists tried to find a workaround to Discord’s age-verification software. Instead, they found its frontend exposed to the open internet, bundling financial reporting with facial recognition tech.

For the first time, they lay bare what is really behind a software serving age-verification laws – and why such technology is far from harmless.

We spoke with the researchers that exposed the software, who hope that their findings will serve as a wakeup call.

[Sharon Polsky MAPP @PolskySays]

A headhunter from a firm I've never dealt with just called with an offer — and, when asked how she got to me, said her employer scrapes @LinkedIn and elsewhere on the internet for resumes

Should I tell her about the BC Appeal Court's decision on ClearviewAI scraping the web?

[Mark Lizar @smartopian]

Twitter was run like a public digital infrastructure, X is governed like a private network. its just not trustworthy, or beneficial - is there really 10-15x people, and can twitter be used to communicate with them? algorithms - and upgrades required to edit or 'boost' SCAM

[M. W. Grome @GromeMichael]

There are a projected 10-15x greater number of active daily users on X than Bluesky. I believe we as scientists have a duty to be responsive to the public - thus active where we are most visible & accessible, even if it’s less beneficial to us personally.

If that means the environment is less forgiving of our work, we ought not shy away.

Perhaps naive, but I believe the public is more willing to be trusting of us when we are of them.

[Mark Lizar @smartopian]

@kashhill @MikeIsaac @KalleyHuang Canada should enforce transparency by default, then the use of surveillance glasses without notice be subject to fine and privacy rights fine / action in Quebec

[Emily Turrettini @textually]

The department has sent Google, Meta and other companies hundreds of subpoenas for information on accounts that track or comment on Immigration and Customs Enforcement, officials and tech workers said
https://t.co/BVSRm4vNF3

[Martin A. Armstrong @ArmstrongEcon]

Same “social media danger” speech that is also being delivered in Europe. It is all the same playbook. Failing societies will become authoritarian.

[Luis Montezuma | @[email protected] @montezumachavez]

The case of the year in Canada
Facebook v. @PrivacyPrivee
Subject Matter: Cambridge Analytica 
Hearing scheduled: 2026-03-19
Here's the respondent OPC: https://t.co/dNnYm2rKij.
Here's the intervention from the Office of the Privacy Commissioner for British Columbia:

[Jmail @jmailarchive]

We built Jikipedia, a new wiki that compiles Jmail data into exhaustive reports on key figures in the Epstein scandal.

It lists all recorded visits to Epstein's estates, each person's possible knowledge of Epstein's crimes and laws that they may have violated.

Here is Epstein's executive assistant, who sent >100k emails to him and was shielded from prison via a 2007 non-prosecution deal.

[bat020 @bat020]

Palantir is trying to shut down the Swiss news magazine Republik for exposing the security flaws in its spyware.
https://t.co/wmKU3jy6X6

[Mark Lizar @smartopian]

The CUSMA moment: Canada can take digital sovereignty back
https://t.co/A6dUI9nuEe

[Mark Lizar @smartopian]

I recommend a break, its good to reflect on the context and state of current digital democracy. Where this attention and the messages we contribute are focused, Happy Digital Privacy Week. (Flipping the switch, Inverting the Context) #TbD. #TransparencybyDefault

[Mark Lizar @smartopian]

Am happy to say Hi - lots of people and many commenters I have missed.