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Digital Rights Under Siege: Join BTCHEL Talks! Join me to discuss why #Bitcoin P2P privacy payment tools, privacy of communication, and travel data protection matter more than ever at BTCHEL conference in #Helsinki (August 14-16)! Bring anyone who's tired of feeling like their every move is being tracked and wants to do something about it! Do it before it is too late - we're living through an unprecedented assault on digital privacy: 1. The EU's Anti-Money Laundering Authority (AMLA) is advancing a "zero tolerance for anonymity in crypto" policy, while... 2. Denmark's EU Presidency is fast-tracking #ChatControl regulation for adoption on October 14, 2025. This isn't just regulatory overreach—it's the architecture of mass surveillance disguised as child protection and combating financial crimes/terrorism. The consequences are already visible and show how financial surveillance creates real physical and national security dangers: - kidnapping incidents in #France targeting crypto-assets holders, - weaponisation of AML/CFT and cybersecurity laws for transnational financial repression in the #EU by authoritarian regimes and their proxies. When your payment history, communication patterns, and travel data are exposed, you become a target. For those who don't know - proposed ChatControl means: - Automatic scanning of ALL private messages, emails, and chats - Mandatory age verification ending anonymous communication - Cloud storage monitoring, including your private photos - App store censorship and digital exclusion of minors Join me at BTCHEL (August 14-16) to examine new evidence of how Russia's allies are weaponizing cybersecurity and #AML regulations against the EU, #US, and #Western democratic institutions. In a world where digital and physical converge, privacy of payments, communication, and travel isn't just convenience—it's survival. It protects your life, property, and cultural identity from those who would exploit your data. See you! 🧡

#asknostr seems doesn’t work. Are there any videos how to use #Nostr and its new features ?

#asknostr how to get to the human rights feed of #nostr? 😅 how it works?

TARCZYŃSKI MEP NIGHT APOLOGIES TO ME AND OPEN DIALOGUE FOUNDATION FOR DEFAMATION On 3rd of Jan 2025 a Member of the European Parliament and candidate for the Law and Justice's would-be presidential election Dominik Tarczynski has published an apology for slandering me, Lyudmyla Kozlovska, and Open Dialogue Foundation. His statement is the result of a final lost in court. However, Tarczynski wrote it overnight in the hope that no one would see it while our profiles in X have been blocked by him. Just to recall, Tarczynski in 2019 slandered us for money laundering from #Russia. He attacked us with same false slanders in while he was a Member of Parliamentary Assembley of the Council of Europe, and then in the European Parliament. This slander was also affecting our rights for banking services in the #EU, financially excluding me, my family members and different entities connected with me. The verdict in this case came down in the summer of 2022, and on 20 Dec. 2024 the Court of Appeal in #Warsaw rejected his whole application, requiring a compensation and the publication of such content: 'I, Dominik Tarczynski, apologise to Lyudmyla Kozlovska for infringement of her dignity and good name and to the Open Dialogue Foundation in Warsaw (Registration no. (KRS): 0000353754) for damage to its reputation and good name by disseminating damaging and untrue information about their participation in laundering of money coming from Russia during my appearance in the Deutsche Welle programme ‘Conflict Zone’'. Certainly 10 000 PLN as compensation isn't enough to restore the reputation and damage caused by Tarczynski for the last 5 years. We should put in place more effective accountability measures to stop these kinds of attacks, especially from state representatives in the Parliamentary Assembley of the Council of Europe and European Parliament.

HUNGARY PROPOSED MESSENGER PROVIDERS FOR TIGHT SURVEILLANCE Following the pressure of privacy & human rights activists the Hungarian Presidency claimed to do "a compromise". In practice the upcoming #ChatControl regulation will require from messenger providers "to do their utmost to contribute to the development of reliable and accurate technologies to detect new CSAM and grooming." It means more tight surveillance, including indiscriminate mass monitoring of private communications and the end of secure end-to-end encryption. https://emanuelkarlsten.se/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/240829-CRPII-4-september-st12319.en24.pdf In response to this proposal, over 245 scientists from 31 countries evaluated #ChatControl draft as ‘ineffective, false positives, defeats end-to-end encryption, disproportionate, violates right to privacy, new vulnerabilities’. https://homes.esat.kuleuven.be/~preneel/Open_letter_CSAR_aug24_still_unacceptable.pdf 1️⃣ What you can do now: 🔻Call your goverment and deputies to reject alltogether Chat Control. Find contacts here:

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🔻Support politicians like @echo_pbreyer who promote privacy! 🔻Explain why it won’t help in bringing security for our society. Opposite, such approach would put the future of our freedoms is just one step closer to be compromised and abused by dictators. 🔻Address your government before the next meeting on 2nd Oct.: 🔴SUPPORT Chat Control: Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, Finland, Hungary, Ireland, Greece, Latvia, Lithuania, Malta, Romania, Slovakia, Spain, Sweden 🟢AGAINST Chat Control: Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Estonia, Germany, Luxembourg, Poland, Slovenia 🟡 UNDECIDED (we need to activate them the most!): Italy, Netherlands, Portugal 🎙Respost and call you friends to join the campaign today: If no privacy of communication, no protection for children, anyone in the EU and beyond! 2️⃣Rember and explain: 🔻No algorithm can reliably make a legal assessment. According to Meta, which is the source of the vast majority of reports, they currently only look for known CSAM in EU communications, and yet at least 50% NCMEC of reports made to German law enforcement agencies are not criminally relevant, according to the federal crime agency (BKA). 🔻EU Commissioner #Johansson admitted in late 2023 that 75% of NCMEC reports are not of a quality that the police can work with. 3️⃣ Dictators love Western spy technology: the example of the Intellexa spy company proved: dictators all over the world love Western spy technology for transnational repression of opponents and destruction of the Western world, your and your family freedoms. Urge your government to stop this!

Predator Files : Die Schweiz als Drehscheibe

Die USA verhängen erneut Sanktionen gegen das Spionageunternehmen Intellexa und damit verbundene Personen – darunter ein Schweizer Treuhänder. ...

🔴 What is the role of Chevron in #TransnationalRepression? Open Dialogue Foundation, together with human rights experts from the #ActivistNotExtremists coalition, prepared a report on the transnational political repression of Barlyk Mendygaziyev. The persecution of Barlyk, his relatives and associates has received extensive international attention as one example of: 🔻financial repression: abuse of anti-extremist/terrorist legislation; anti-money laundering laws (abuse of AML/CFT laws); 🔻taking family members and associates as political hostages, torturing them, including putting Kalyk #Mendygaziyev, Barlyk's brother, to death; and 🔻abuse of #INTERPOL 's international wanted list, etc. The Mendygaziyev case is mentioned in resolutions of the European Parliament and in the US State Department's annual reports on the human rights situation in #Kazakhstan for 2021-2023 as an example of selective justice and #TransnationalRepression by the Kazakhstani authorities. But these international documents do not pay attention on Chevron’s role as a key instrument of the above-mentioned political repression, initiated by Kazakhstani regime. 🔴 In our report we call on the US & #FATF: 🔻 Investigate and develop an effective mechanisms to counter and hold accountable Kazakhstan's regime for involvement of @Chevron in political persecution of Mendygaziyev, including financial repression for his eco-activist and human rights work; 🔻 Address and hold accountable #Kazakhstani regime for the abuse of AML/CFT laws to financialy exclude civil society, donors and opposition. 🔹 As a context: Mendygaziyev exposed numerous of environmental damages in Kazakhstan because of corruption for over decade. For instance, in March 2022 Nazar Solutions LLP, as one of the contractors of Tengizchevroil LLP, was illegally storing toxic oil waste in a massively populated area of Western Kazakhstan. That caused an explosion and fires of toxic oil waste in #Tengiz village. The largest shareholder of Tengizchevroil LLP is the US company Chevron, which holds a 50% stake.

🔴 Yes, six years of our constant struggle were needed to lift the Polish entry ban imposed on me for political reasons as an alleged ‘threat to national security’. This was done by the then-ruling Law and Justice government on the basis of the classified opinion of the Internal Security Agency. Now, I’m finally allowed to return to #Poland. 🔴 Yes, Law and Justice party definitely knows how to abuse power and drive you into financial exclusion, even if you’ve obtained several favourable court rulings. During the last 6 years, the Polish Office for Foreigners and Internal Security Agency (#ABW) kept the ban despite 6 court verdicts (!) finding it unjustified and groundless. 🔴 Yes, FATF and EU Commission have regarded these kind of cases of financial exclusion and abuse of AML/CFT laws as ‘unintended consequences’. It is not true: it was an intended, coordinated abuse of AML/CFT laws by then-ruling Law and Justice government and other authoritarian regimes for transnational repression against ODF as a human rights organisation and myself as its leader. 🔴 Yes, when the Law and Justice party was in power, ABW prepared a classified dossier based on alleged 'evidence' that my stay as a foreigner on the Polish territory 'threatens the state security'. Today ABW - freed from the political influence of PiS - officially recognises that no such evidence exists against me. I believe it is crucial to declassify dossier based on alleged 'evidence' against me to show how regimes abuse security measures enjoying the lack of accountability/remedies in the AML/CFT laws. 🔴 Yes, after the final court judgement that required the Office for Foreigners in Poland to remove me from the blacklist, we’ve eventually received an official confirmation which states that I can now enter. According to lawyers and human rights activists dealing with foreigners, this was the very first time a court in Poland issued such an explicit order when the state security issue was at play. 🔴 No, the Law and Justice party (#PiS) is no longer in power. But this doesn’t mean that the problems of the Open Dialogue Foundation, our team and family members are over. Already 7-year long politically motivated tax audits aimed at ODF and our company ruined our business, and the criminal case against Bartosz Kramek as well as many other victims of political repression are ongoing. 🔴Yes, even with the loss of power, the system built by Law and Justice Ministers Mariusz Kaminski and Maciej Wasik continues to live, poisoning the lives of the opressed for the last 7 years and requires complete dismantling. At the same time, those responsible have not yet been held accountable for attempting to destroy i.a. our foundation in retaliation for the defence of the #RuleOfLaw in Poland - an abuse previously unheard of in the EU. That is why we still need your support. 🧡

Check the text of the #AML regulation “before and after”: you see that provisions which defended #crowdfunding efforts for civil society organisations and supported by the European Parliament in April 2023 were deleted during the #Trilogue. This unreasonable and disproportionate expansion, without any exceptions, in effect, devastates fundraising efforts for activists and NGOs like Open Dialogue Foundation. In times of crisis, such as natural disasters, military conflicts, like the latest in #Ukraine, or emergencies, crowdfunding becomes a rapid and effective means for civil society to gather resources. The proposed expansion of the AMLR to categorize all crowdfunding platforms as risky channels echoes existing de-risking practices that have already shown devastating impacts on vital humanitarian efforts. 2/5

Friends, we are fundraising for urgent humanitarian aid and rescue for people and animals in southern Ukraine who have been affected by the dam explosion recently. I would be eternally grateful for your support ⚡️🫶 #bitcoin donation here: https://bps.odfoundation.eu/api/v1/invoices?storeId=BtsEXJUNCaPaSmEwWqRKc1htTEs6sviNDkeKsBNjNne2&currency=USD