“TikTok poses an unacceptable national security risk due to its extensive data harvesting being combined with Beijing’s apparently unchecked access to that sensitive data.” – Federal Communications Commission (FCC)

This is true.

Now replace TikTok with Facebook, Snapchat, <insert Silicon Valley Big Tech corporation or startup here> and Beijing with Washington, DC and…

This is also true.

🤔

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#peopleFarming #surveillanceCapitalism #BigTech #humanRights #democracy

TikTok is “unacceptable security risk” and should be removed from app stores, says FCC

According to the FCC commissioner, TikTok being a video app is the "sheep's clothing", suggesting a wolf hides underneath those funny videos.

^{Jovi Umawing (Malwarebytes)}

“EU GDPR enforcement against Big Tech is paralysed by Ireland’s failure to deliver draft decisions on cross-border cases. Ireland’s failure to uphold the GDPR has allowed surveillance to remain the default business model of the digital world.”

biometricupdate.com/202207/un-…

CC @noybeu

#gdpr #ireland #enforcement #privacy #facialRecognition #humanRights

UN Human Rights Committee expected to question Ireland’s plans for facial recognition

Civil rights group states that the Data Protection Commission failings have allowed surveillance as a default business model.

^{Frank Hersey (BiometricUpdate.com)}

Vatican praises U.S. court abortion decision

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Heaven forbid a woman’s right to choose should limit the supply of altar boys for Catholic bishops to bugger.

#catholicChurch #vatican #pope #catholicism #religion #fundamentalism #childAbuse #abortion #humanRights

Vatican praises U.S. court abortion decision, saying it challenges world

The Vatican's Academy for Life on Friday praised the U.S. Supreme Court's decision on abortion, saying it challenged the world…

^inkl

The US Supreme Court announces rebrand. Will henceforth be known as Taliban White™

What a horrible setback for human rights.

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#us #fundamentalism #RoeVWade #humanRights

U.S. Supreme Court rules there’s no right to abortion, setting up Texas ban

The high court’s monumental ruling will have major impact on Texas, which has a trigger law banning abortions that goes…

^inkl

The UK could pull out of Europe’s human rights framework after last-ditch legal rulings blocked the government’s plan to relocate asylum-seekers to Rwanda.

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“I am evil, our government is evil, the people who voted for us are evil and we will ensure nothing prevents us from carrying out the evil we were elected to do” said home secretary Priti Patel when asked for comment.

#tory #uk #humanRights #evil #pritiPatel

Rwanda – live: UK may pull out of European human-rights deal, says No 10

Home secretary insists she will press ahead with implementing policy

^inkl

#SurveillanceCapitalism Spreading In #Schools, Sidelining Role Of #Teachers.

My Take: putting children under 24/7 monitoring, is harmful to natural development + #autonomy.

Ex: intense security (like recent proposal to add armed taser drones + force children to train with them) may do little more than put kids in more fear.

#News #Education #Privacy #HumanRights #AI progressive.org/public-schools…

How Surveillance Capitalism Is Spreading to Schools

Ed-tech companies are mining and exploiting students’ data while sidelining the role of teachers.

^{Velislava Hillman (Progressive.org)}

Hah, when I wrote that six years ago, it was meant to be a warning, not an instruction manual 🤷‍♂️

#cpdp2022 #privacyWashing #institutionalCorruption #privacy #tech #humanRights

Well it’s always good to know what the privacy-washers are saying. Know your enemy and all that.

Also good to know who doesn’t mind having their legitimacy in privacy and human rights used to launder the likes of Google and Meta.

All very enlightening.

#privacyWashing #cpdp2022 #privacy #humanRights #institutionalCorruption #google #meta #tech

Sponsored by Google and Meta. Go on, pull the other one!

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#cpdp2022 #privacy #tech #humanRights #institutionalCorruption #privacyWashing

CPDP2021 Computers, Privacy and Data Protection conference • Platinum Sponsors

Platinum Sponsors are the top-level financial supporters of the CPDP Conference and its related side events. CPDP is an annual three-day conference devoted to privacy and data protection.

^{www.cpdpconferences.org}

What do I mean by “the Trump era William Barr justice department “think of the children” playbook?”

This: cyberlaw.stanford.edu/blog/201…

#privacy #humanRights #eu #encryption

EU Commission’s latest attempt to backdoor your privacy tries the Trump era William Barr justice department “think of the children” playbook.

No one thinks we shouldn’t do everything in our power to combat child sexual abuse. Some of us just don’t want to destroy the fundamental human right to privacy (and every other human right that’s based on it) in the process.

mastodon.ar.al/web/@EU_Commiss…

#privacy #humanRights #eu #encryption

European Commission (@EU_Commission@social.network.europa.eu)

Attached: 1 image Child sexual abuse is a real and growing danger. 📈 More than 2 million children are being affected every year. This week, we have proposed new rules to prevent and combat child sexual abuse online⬇️ #EUvsChildSexualAbuse

^{EU Voice}