#righttoprivacy — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #righttoprivacy, aggregated by home.social.
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[from the Cheek Media Co page, on Facebook - https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1BhJQLp3uJ/]
#NSW #NSWPol #NSWPolice #Australia #RightToPrivacy #CivilRights #AustraliaHasANaziProblem #Criminology #CriminalJustice
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Be a part of something really crucial!
By any means we must stand against these Acts and Bills.
They are huge alarming, and outright freedom-crushing bills, laid in front of our plain sight. These bills will do more harm than good while evading your privacy and fundamental rights.
Fight for the cause, it will take only 5 minutes:
https://www.acteff.org/campaign/167270/https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/08/senate-vote-tomorrow-four-internet-bills-one-wrong-direction
#privacymatters #privacyfirst #democracy #freedomofthenet #News #resist #journalism #righttoprivacy
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If you are new in this social media or you just want to enhance your privacy, please visit https://www.privacyguides.org/en/ this is the most painless and friendly way to start #privacy #righttoprivacy #digitalrights #nochatcontrol
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Privacy is not a crime — it’s a fundamental right.
Protecting our personal space in today’s digital world.
#DontSpyOnMe
#PrivacyMatters
#RightToPrivacy
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Dayton (Ohio) Public Schools board votes to continue using Flock cameras
Dayton Public Schools board members voted down a proposal to stop using Flock cameras at Dayton school buildings.
#ohio #privacy #righttoprivacy #children #surveillance
https://www.daytondailynews.com/local/dayton-public-schools-board-votes-to-continue-using-flock-cameras/article_9ebc2df1-6400-5deb-aa48-79d8b67088c0.html -
Dayton (Ohio) Public Schools board votes to continue using Flock cameras
Dayton Public Schools board members voted down a proposal to stop using Flock cameras at Dayton school buildings.
https://s.faithcollapsing.com/4k77c#ohio #privacy #righttoprivacy #children #surveillance
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We need more #antiTrust and #antiMonopoly laws.
We need more #union protections and #proWorker laws.
We need TIGHT REGULATION over Silicon Valley tech companies AND strong, bribe-proof sentences for those willing to burn our rights, our intellectual property, our jobs, or our planet.
We need #rightToPrivacy and #bodilyAutonomy and #humanRights laws with teeth and politicians afraid to dare question them.
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On the Fediverse, it is common to come across discourse on the critical importance of “privacy” for “democracy” and for “human rights”. How the liberal notion of privacy arose is rarely, if ever, interrogated. The liberal advocates of privacy do not even register the dialectic of privacy and surveillance in a capitalist system.
Given this context, I think the following passages from the second edition of Christian Fuchs’s book, “Social Media: A Critical Introduction”, are worth sharing.
From page 187:
The problem of secret bank accounts/transactions and the intransparency of richness and company profits is not only that financial privacy can support tax evasion, black money and money laundering, but also that it hides wealth gaps. Financial privacy reflects the classical liberal account of privacy. So, for example, John Stuart Mill formulated a right of the propertied class to economic privacy as “the owner’s privacy against invasion” (Mill 1965, 232). Economic privacy (the right to keep information about income, profits or bank transactions secret) protects the rich, companies and the wealthy. The anonymity of wealth, high incomes and profits makes income and wealth gaps between the rich and the poor invisible and thereby ideologically helps legitimizing and upholding these gaps. It can therefore be considered an ideological mechanism that helps to reproduce and deepen inequality.
From page 189:
Capitalism is grounded in the idea that the private sphere should be separated from the public sphere and should not be accessible by the public, and that therefore autonomy and anonymity of the individual are needed in the private sphere. The rise of the idea of privacy in modern society is connected to the rise of the central ideal of the freedom of private ownership. Private ownership is the idea that humans have the right to as much wealth as they want, as long as it is inherited or acquired through individual achievements. There is an antagonism between private ownership and social equity in modern society. Many contemporary societies treat how much and what exactly a person owns as an aspect of privacy. Keeping ownership structures secret is a precautionary measure against the public questioning of or the political and individual attack against private ownership.
Capitalism requires anonymity and privacy in order to function. But full privacy is also not possible in modern society because strangers enter social relations that require trust or enable exchange. Building trust requires knowing certain data about other persons, especially in capitalist market relations. It is therefore checked with the help of surveillance procedures whether or not a stranger can be trusted. This means that companies try to find out as much as possible about job applicants, workers, consumers and competitors and that various forms of monitoring and espionage are common means for doing so. Corporations have the aim of accumulating ever more capital. That is why they have an interest in knowing as much as possible about their workers (in order to control them) and the interests, tastes and behaviours of their customers. This results in the surveillance of workers/employees and consumers.
The ideals of modernity (such as the freedom of ownership) also produce phenomena such as income and wealth inequality, poverty, unemployment, precarious living and working conditions, crime and so on. The establishment of trust, socio-economic differences and corporate interests are three qualities of modernity that necessitate surveillance. Therefore, on the one hand modernity advances the ideal of a right to privacy, but on the other hand it must continuously advance surveillance that threatens to undermine privacy rights. An antagonism between privacy ideals and surveillance is therefore constitutive of capitalism.
#fediverse #mastodon #SocialMedia #capitalism #liberalism #privacy #RightToPrivacy #security #anonymity #encryption #e2ee #surveillance -
🚨 C’est le 3e vote sur #ChatControl en moins de 4 mois.
NON, c’est NON : https://fightchatcontrol.eu/Ce système de surveillance de masse déguisé menace les communications privées et ouvre la porte à une surveillance plus large.
📣 Contactez vos représentants et demandez-leur de voter CONTRE : https://fightchatcontrol.eu/
#Privacy #HumanRights #No2Surveillance #Security #DataProtection #MassSurveillance #RightToPrivacy #GDPR #Tech #Cybersecurity #Europe
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hate to say i told ya so, but...
(when I first mentioned this to my lecturers they all said they couldn't see it happening because of the privacy concerns and data speed issues...lolok)
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WA police surveillance cameras: AI technology to monitor public spaces
WA police launch real-time AI camera surveillance to catch criminals
WA Police will become the first force in the country to use real-time AI-generated facial recognition in public spaces.
The state government on Friday launched the Overt Live Facial Recognition program with a trial of the cameras at the police academy in Joondalup
The technology monitors groups of people from police vans and compares faces against a database of targets in real-time.
#AusPol #Australia #WAPol #policing #Criminology #CriminalJustice #tech #technology #surveillance #surveillanceTech #AI #RightToPrivacy
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Exclusive: Meta employees launch protest against mouse-tracking tech at US offices
#privacy #righttoprivacy #meta
https://www.reuters.com/sustainability/society-equity/meta-us-employees-organize-protest-against-mouse-tracking-tech-2026-05-12/ -
Some Good News
"Mozilla, Proton, etc. are protesting AI ID age verification with an open letter to the UK government. The company behind Firefox and other organizations are protesting AI facial scans and age checks, pointing out that they are attempts at mass surveillance through the collection of biometric data"
#privacy #democracy #dataprivacy #righttoprivacy #onlinesafety
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Dayton suspends Flock license plate readers, says data used for immigration enforcement
The Dayton Police Department has announced that it found that contrary to promises that access to Flock Automated License Plate Reader data would be kept rest...
#goodnews #fuckice #righttoprivacy #dayton #ohio
https://www.daytondailynews.com/local/dayton-suspends-license-plate-readers-says-data-used-for-immigration-enforcement/article_14a3f629-ac59-57cd-91e8-c53ed5619971.html -
Getting On Anonymous IRC Chat With I2P+ And Hexchat
IRC (Internet Relay Chat) is oldskool, simple way to chat using clients such as #BitchX, or Hexchat / XChat
I registered #righttoprivacy channel On I2P Postman IRC Server for this video (everyone welcome to join / chat 😎)
(send msg / reply / comment if having trouble)
#IRC #i2p #anonymous #anonymity #HumanRights #PrivacyMatters #FOSS #Hexchat #Peertube
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There's only one city in America that isn't on Google's Street View. Documentary filmmaker Chris Parr set out to map it, using North Oak, Minnesota's byzantine rules and the help of a drone. His experience shows who gets privacy in America, and who doesn't.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtiiHXsnsrY
#PrivacyInAmerica #DigitalDivide #RightToPrivacy #SurveillanceCapitalism #DataPrivacy #NorthOaks #GoogleStreetView #DocumentaryFilmmaking #DroneMapping #IndieDoc #Cartography
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CW: socialmedia
Meta to Shut Down Instagram End-to-End Encrypted Chat Support Starting May 2026
https://thehackernews.com/2026/03/meta-to-shut-down-instagram-end-to-end.html#privacy #righttoprivacy #socialmedia -
Meta to Shut Down Instagram End-to-End Encrypted Chat Support Starting May 2026 https://s.faithcollapsing.com/bza59#privacy #righttoprivacy #socialmedia
Meta to Shut Down Instagram En... -
look im gonna need some of you all to start listening to me
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DHS BUILT A FACE SCANNING APP. YOU MIGHT ALREADY BE IN IT.
They came to his workplace armed with guns, gas canisters and artificial intelligence. He fought back with his quick wit and street smarts.
What happened next is a preview of what routine face scans could look like on American streets, in this special France 24–Mother Jones report.
Abdikafi Abdurahman Abdullahi, known as Kafi, is one of the few people willing to speak publicly about being subjected to the Department of Homeland Security’s new facial recognition tool, Mobile Fortify.
The Somali-American engineer-turned-Uber driver was waiting for a fare in an airport rideshare lot on January 7th, just hours after Renee Good was shot and killed by federal agents. As he watched a video of her death on his phone, there was a knock on his car door. Outside stood roughly a dozen ICE agents, demanding proof of his citizenship.
Kafi, who is Black and Muslim, refused to show his ID, arguing he was being racially profiled. Instead, he began filming, and his unflappable, mischievous comebacks transformed his video into a viral sensation.
The Department of Homeland Security officially acknowledged the existence of Mobile Fortify in January. But by then it had already been used over 100,000 times in American communities, according to recent court filings.
“This is taking a big and very scary step toward a kind of totalitarian checkpoint society that we have always professed to abhor here in the United States,” warned ACLU attorney Nate Wessler
https://youtu.be/fDsYzd4ITq0?si=MuhIisCXI0gwRbsF
#tech #technology #surveillance #surveillanceTech #AI #chatgpt #LLMs #policing #HumanRights #RightToPrivacy
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Fahmi Reza, an activist, told the story that authorities asked Fahmi Reza for passwords.
#DigitalRightsMY #CMA2025 #Section249 #PrivacyInMalaysia #EndSurveillance #FightCensorship #DigitalFreedom #Malaysia #OnlinePrivacy #DataProtection #EncryptionRights #SurveillanceState #CyberSecurityMY #RightToSilence #TechPolicy #HumanRights #DigitalJustice #StopPindaan2025 #PrivacyNow #FreedomOfExpression #MalaysianPolitics #DigitalActivism #RightToPrivacy #SurveillanceLaws #InformationRights #AKM1998 #OrangKenaCekup #DigitalOppression #SecureTheWeb #ResistSurveillance #TechForGood #DigitalSovereignty #OnlineFreedom #DataOwnership #DigitalRights
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The "privacy" you think you have in Malaysia is an illusion.
Authorities have a legal backdoor into your entire digital existence. Under Section 249 of the Communications & Multimedia Act (CMA), police can demand your passwords, PINs, or biometrics during an investigation.
Here is the creepy part: Refusing to unlock your phone IS the crime itself.
They don't need to crack sophisticated encryption; they just crack you with the threat of immediate arrest for "obstruction." You become a criminal just for trying to protect your data dignity.
And it's getting worse. The incoming #Pindaan2025 amendments propose escalating penalties for non-compliance up to a staggering RM1 MILLION fine or 5 YEARS in prison.
This isn't about fighting crime; it's an infrastructure designed to force compliance through state-sanctioned fear. Your digital mind is yours only until they ask for it. Wake up.
#DigitalRightsMY #AKM1998 #Privacy #Censorship #MalaysiaBoleh #DigitalRightsMY #CMA2025 #Section249 #PrivacyInMalaysia #EndSurveillance #FightCensorship #DigitalFreedom #Malaysia #OnlinePrivacy #DataProtection #EncryptionRights #SurveillanceState #CyberSecurityMY #RightToSilence #TechPolicy #HumanRights #DigitalJustice #StopPindaan2025 #PrivacyNow #FreedomOfExpression #MalaysianPolitics #DigitalActivism #RightToPrivacy #SurveillanceLaws #InformationRights #AKM1998 #OrangKenaCekup #DigitalOppression #SecureTheWeb #ResistSurveillance #TechForGood #DigitalSovereignty #OnlineFreedom #DataOwnership #DigitalRights
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"AI" (clickbait llm companies), cloudflare, docker, nfts, cryptocurrencies(with extremely minor caveats), cloud storage, flatpack, saas, etc... Are all the same disease to the computation ecosystem. Hardware must be subservient to software else it is a tool against users instead of for users. We are losing the pressure to develop software that undsrstands the hardware it relies on and pressuring hardware to be usuable by out of house developers. We are bowing when we should be punching. To be clear, you do not control software on hardware you can't touch. You can't trust how your software is being interpreted if you can't check the interpretation. Fight the corpos, fight the binary blobs, fight the containers, or surrender to centralization.
#FOSS #linux #freedom #righttoprivacy #privacy #sanity #humanrights
