#onlinerights — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #onlinerights, aggregated by home.social.
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FBI Seizure of Mastodon Server Data is a Wakeup Call to Fediverse Users and Hosts to Protect their Users (2023)
In May [2023], Mastodon server Kolektiva.social was compromised when one of the server’s admins had their home raided by the FBI for unrelated charges. All of their electronics, including a backup of the instance database, were seized.
It’s a chillingly familiar story which should serve as a reminder for the hosts, users, and developers of decentralized platforms: if you care about privacy, you have to do the work to protect it. We have a chance to do better from the start in the fediverse, so let’s take it. ...
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41434600
This is an issue that's troubled me since joining the Fediverse in 2016, and as one of the people heavily involved in the "Plexodus" diaspora from the late unlamented #GooglePlus. Whilst large commercial providers have their failure points concerning privacy and law enforcement, they've also often stood up to over-broad attempts to surveil peoples' online activity. Small instances on distributed systems often run as hobbies or very small-scale subscription / donation-based operations might avoid the roving eye of such efforts, but also lack resources, knowledge, and procedures for how to respond when such seizures occur. As the EFF notes, Kolektiva failed to alert its members (and remote contacts) until months after the FBI raid.
The EFF does have a promising guide to legal rights and considerations specifically tailored at the Fediverse:
"User Generated Content and the Fediverse: A Legal Primer"
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/12/user-generated-content-and-fediverse-legal-primer#KolektivaSocial #Kolektiva #EFF #ElectronicFrontierFoundation #CyberRights #FBI #OnlineRights #JacksonGames
Edit: This is a 2023 story.
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FBI Seizure of Mastodon Server Data is a Wakeup Call to Fediverse Users and Hosts to Protect their Users (2023)
In May [2023], Mastodon server Kolektiva.social was compromised when one of the server’s admins had their home raided by the FBI for unrelated charges. All of their electronics, including a backup of the instance database, were seized.
It’s a chillingly familiar story which should serve as a reminder for the hosts, users, and developers of decentralized platforms: if you care about privacy, you have to do the work to protect it. We have a chance to do better from the start in the fediverse, so let’s take it. ...
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41434600
This is an issue that's troubled me since joining the Fediverse in 2016, and as one of the people heavily involved in the "Plexodus" diaspora from the late unlamented #GooglePlus. Whilst large commercial providers have their failure points concerning privacy and law enforcement, they've also often stood up to over-broad attempts to surveil peoples' online activity. Small instances on distributed systems often run as hobbies or very small-scale subscription / donation-based operations might avoid the roving eye of such efforts, but also lack resources, knowledge, and procedures for how to respond when such seizures occur. As the EFF notes, Kolektiva failed to alert its members (and remote contacts) until months after the FBI raid.
The EFF does have a promising guide to legal rights and considerations specifically tailored at the Fediverse:
"User Generated Content and the Fediverse: A Legal Primer"
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/12/user-generated-content-and-fediverse-legal-primer#KolektivaSocial #Kolektiva #EFF #ElectronicFrontierFoundation #CyberRights #FBI #OnlineRights #JacksonGames
Edit: This is a 2023 story.
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Hey Mastodon friends! 🚨 Heads up for anyone who's used #Glassdoor. They've started adding your real name & job info to profiles without consent! 😱 If you're all about #Privacy and want to keep your #Anonymity, time to double-check your account or consider deleting. 🛑✊ #TechPolicy #UserConsent #DataPrivacy #OnlineRights
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@Google @gmail It's disheartening to see legitimate communications being misclassified as spam without proper resolution. Concerned about recent actions by @Google suppressing freedom of expression. #FreedomOfExpression #OnlineRights #Digitalrights
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This article may be old news to some, but for those new, or curious it does a good job of giving the broad strokes of various tracking technologies in use, from cookies to fingerprinting.
#Privacy #OnlinePrivacy #OnlineRights #Tracking #InternetTracking
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This article may be old news to some, but for those new, or curious it does a good job of giving the broad strokes of various tracking technologies in use, from cookies to fingerprinting.
#Privacy #OnlinePrivacy #OnlineRights #Tracking #InternetTracking
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https://tutanota.com/blog/posts/facebook-tracking-business-model-illegal-europe/
EU privacy Regulators have ruled that Meta/Facebook/Instagram/WhatsApp can NOT force users to agree to being tracked by putting this requirement into their Terms-of-Service.
#Privacy #OnlinePrivacy #OnlineRights #Meta #Facebook #Instagram #WhatsApp #EU #EuropeanUnion
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We all agree, hate-speech is bad, Harassment is bad, but EFF makes the case that this should NOT be the job of infrastructure companies. Facebook, Twitter, etc, should police their platforms, however core infrastructure entities such as Cloudflare, GoDaddy, and the like, probably should not.
#EFF #ContentPolicing #OnlineRights #OnlineFreedom #FreeSpeech