You can refuse to provide official ID or biometric data for social media accounts requiring age verification. Actually, I bet if everyone did refuse, and let their account dormant for a couple of weeks, you would suddenly see American Big Tech transforming into the fiercest defender of your privacy rights, using their powerful network of lobbyists to fight these invasive government regulations. They need you more than you need them. Force them to work for your rights. Do not comply. #Privacy #AgeVerification #Biometrics #AusPol #USpol

Ami-es Français-es 🇫🇷❤️ En ce moment, la France supporte toujours cette proposition de surveillance de masse pour l'Europe. Les conséquences qu'une telle politique aurait sur la démocratie sont énormes. Je sais que vous êtes occupés en ce moment mais il ne reste que 2 jours pour contacter vos représentants et leur demander de protéger vos droits humains en s'opposant à cette proposition de Chat Control. Voici un lien facile pour contacter vos représentants en quelques cliques seulement (multilingue):

Fight Chat Control - Protect Digital Privacy in the EU

Learn about the EU Chat Control proposal and contact your representatives to protect digital privacy and encryption.

Et un article pour en apprendre plus sur Chat Control (en anglais):

Privacy Guides

Chat Control Must Be Stopped, Act Now!

Chat Control is back to undermine everyone

#ChatControl #ViePrivee #DroitsHumains #Democratie #France #EUpol

European Friends ✊🇪🇺 You have only 2 days left to contact your representatives to tell them to OPPOSE Chat Control, before they finalize their positions on Friday, September 12th. Contact your representatives NOW. This is very important. Here's how 👉

Fight Chat Control - Protect Digital Privacy in the EU

Learn about the EU Chat Control proposal and contact your representatives to protect digital privacy and encryption.

Here's why 👉

Privacy Guides

Chat Control Must Be Stopped, Act Now!

Chat Control is back to undermine everyone

#ChatControl #Privacy #HumanRights #EUpol #MassSurveillance

New Privacy Guides article 🔒 🚩 by me: They all claim: "Your privacy is important to us." But how can we know if that's true? With all the privacy washing and disinformation around, it becomes increasingly difficult to evaluate who we can trust with our data. There are red flags, and green(ish) flags, we can look for to help us assess who to trust, or not 🚩

Privacy Guides

“We [Don

Being able to distinguish facts from marketing lies is an essential skill in today

#PrivacyGuides #Privacy #Security #PrivacyWashing #SecurityTheater #Disinformation

I miss getting excited about new tech. #Enshittification

I see so much disinformation being spread around about privacy-focused technologies and products. This is incredibly detrimental to people seeking to improve their data privacy. Please make sure to verify your sources before spreading information, and remain skeptical of anyone without supporting expertise or evidence. The result of this negligent or malicious disinformation is keeping people on horribly invasive platforms, for fear of making the wrong move. Please think carefully before sharing information that might be inaccurate, false, or misleading. We all need to work together to help people improve their privacy online. Thank you 💚🔒 #Privacy #Disinformation

Stop using Big Tech to organize your protests! They're part of the authoritarian surveillance and oppression as well. ✊ Replace Meetup/Facebook Groups with Mobilizon:

Mobilizon

📄 Replace Google Docs with CryptPad:

CryptPad: end-to-end encrypted collaboration suite

CryptPad: end-to-end encrypted collaboration suite

📍 Replace Google Map with Organic Maps:

Organic Maps: Offline Hike, Bike, Trails and Navigation

Free, open-source, fast, privacy-focused, detailed offline maps for travelers, tourists, drivers, hikers and cyclists created by MapsWithMe/Ma...

🎞️ Replace YouTube with PeerTube:

JoinPeerTube

What is PeerTube? | JoinPeerTube

A free software to take back control of your videos! With more than 600,000 hosted videos, viewed more than 70 millions times and 150,000 users, Pe...

📧 Replace Gmail and Google Calendar with Proton or Tuta:

Proton

Proton: Privacy by default

Over 100 million people use Proton to stay private and secure online. Get a free Proton account and take back your privacy.

Tuta

Tuta: Turn ON privacy for free with secure emails, calendars & contacts | Tuta

Tuta guarantees your data stays private for free & without ads. Quantum-resistant encryption makes Tuta the best secure technology solution to ...

🕸️ Create a simple html website with no tracking and no cookies, and post links to it everywhere, including paper posters and stickers. We can organize without Big Tech. We have done it for centuries before! :blobcatyes: #Protest #Democracy #DigitalRights #HumanRights #Privacy #MassSurveillance

I never thought I would see society slip into authoritarian surveillance so fast. If we don't push back hard and quickly against this, we will lose all our rights. #Privacy #HumanRights

What is your favorite queer tv show? 🌈👀 #Pride #LGBTQ #TvShow #Tv #Queer

I'm not on Bluesky. I learned from the past. I'm not investing my time and energy (and data) again in another platform that could get bought by Elon Musk (or another malevolent billionaire) tomorrow.

Which video game(s) are you playing this weekend? :blobcatgamer: #VideoGame

New Privacy Guides article 🔒☂️ by me: If you care about data privacy, You must also care for the privacy of others. We often talk about what we can do to improve our own privacy, but we don't talk enough about what we should be doing to improve the privacy of others. Together, we have to built a culture that normalizes respecting everyone's privacy. Here are a few ideas to start:

Privacy Guides

Privacy is Also Protecting the Data of Others

In privacy, we talk a lot about how to protect our own data, but what about our responsibility to protect the data of others? If you care about pri...

#PrivacyGuides #Privacy #HumanRights #DigitalRights #Consent

New Privacy Guides article👇 by me: What happened in the UK this week is terrible news and a loud warning alarm for the rest of the world. Governments around the world have been increasingly putting pressure on tech companies to break end-to-end encryption and install mass surveillance systems. We must push back against this. Encryption is not a crime. Encryption keeps us safe 🔐

Privacy Guides

The UK Government Forced Apple to Remove Advanced Data Protection: What Does This Mean for You?

The UK government has served a technical capability notice to Apple under the UK Investigatory Act. Apple

#PrivacyGuides #Privacy #Apple #UK #MassSurveillance #E2EE #Encryption #RootForE2EE

Remember, you always have the power to say no. Refuse to participate. Refuse to help making the world worse. Refuse to work for the oppressor. Refuse to fight for the invader. #USpol

AOC for President! ✊ Watch this!👇 Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's Speech at NY Rally with Federal Workers: #AOC #USpol

If you are staying on a corporate social media platform because the people you follow are still there, consider others are also staying there because you are still there. Someone needs to start the move. Be that person. Leave X for good. Leave Facebook forever. Remember blue skies eventually turn grey. Embrace the social media that cannot get sold to a billionaire. Embrace the Fediverse 💚 #X #Facebook #Instagram #Threads #HelloQuitX #DeleteFacebook #DeleteTwitter #Mastodon #Fediverse

For English speakers who do not speak French: I wanted to let you know about this awesome movement started in France to encourage people to quit X (Twitter) on January 20. You can follow it here with the hashtag #HelloQuitX and use Mastodon's translation feature to read the posts (if your server has it). You can read more about this movement on this website (in English):

HelloQuitX - Let's Quit X together]

You can support this movement by following it on Mastodon, and sharing widely: @npub1nqvj...mkn6 #QuitX #DeleteTwitter #Mastodon

So, I'm at the stage of my career where I've started to *collect* Privacy Policies that I read and actually liked (no, there aren't that many). How nerdy is that? If you wrote (and implemented) a *good* Privacy Policy on the internet, you might have a secret fan :blobcatnerd: #Privacy #PrivacyPolicy

Infosec Exchange

Em :official_verified: (@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange)

I’ve read so many privacy policies in my life, I am now reviewing them like fine wines :blobcatwine: "Hmm this one has a strong GDPR aroma wit...

What is your favorite game to play during the holidays? Either with your family, friends, or solo 🎮🕹️♟️:pacmanblinky:📙👀 #Holidays #Gamers #VideoGame #Boardgame #TTRPG

Westerners Outside of Europe: If you've seen a few posts about the debate around Chat Control going on in Europe and dismissed it thinking this was not happening to you too, I urge you to reconsider. Whenever a new authoritarian regulation to spy on populations and undermine privacy rights is implemented in a part of the Western world, it impacts all the other parts. Our politics are intertwined and influence each others. Do not minimize this. Americans, Canadians, Australians should be greatly concerned about Chat Control in Europe:

TechRadar

The EU proposal to scan all your WhatsApp chats is back on the agenda

The controversial CSAM scanning plan keeps coming back – and being rejected

Europeans, Canadians, and Americans should be greatly concerned about Age Verification in Australia:

the Guardian

Australia to ban under-16s from social media – but can’t say how TikTok, Instagram and others will enforce it

Meta says it will comply if required, but the technology is not ready to enforce proposed age limit across up to 40 apps

Canadians, Europeans, and Australians should be greatly concerned about KOSA in the United States:

Fight for the Future

Stop KOSA

KOSA is a censorship bill that won’t make kids safe. Instead, it'll put all internet users at risk, especially youth. If you believe in a fr...

We are all citizens of the world now, and we must fight together and for each others to push back against mass surveillance and any undermining of our privacy rights, collectively. Privacy is a human right, worldwide. #Privacy #ChatControl #AgeVerification #KOSA #MassSurveillance