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Kick off the new year by ripping data from weather satellites and talking to your friends through a lawn light. 💗 Support this channel and join an amazing c... Gadgets For People Who Don't Trust The Government

Thanks @bennjordan.bsky.social for highlighting our tool, Rayhunter, in your latest video! Rayhunter, and everyone who contributes to the project, is helping expand our understanding of how cell-site simulators are being deployed in the U.S. or globally. www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_F...

Meet Rayhunter: A New Open Source Tool from EFF to Detect Cellular Rayhunter is a new open source tool we’ve created that runs off an affordable mobile hotspot that we hope empowers everyone, regardless of technical skill, to help search out cell-site simulators

To learn more about Rayhunter and how you can locate cell-site simulators in your community, head to www.eff.org/Rayhunter.

ICE Is Going on a Surveillance Shopping Spree U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has a new budget under the current administration, and they are going on a surveillance tech shopping spree. Standing at $28.7 billion dollars for the

With an annual budget that is 10 times the size of the agency’s total surveillance spending for the last 13 years, ICE is going on a shopping spree, creating one of the largest, most comprehensive domestic surveillance machines in history. Here’s what they are buying. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

ICE Can Access Your Social Media. Here’s What To Know – Featured – Borderless Magazine NFP ICE Can Access Your Social Media. Here’s What To Know – Featured – Borderless Magazine NFP

“Unfortunately, immigrants and noncitizens should now assume that anything they share publicly on social media might be surveilled by the government and potentially used against them,” EFF’s Lisa Femia told @borderlessmag.bsky.social.

How Hackers Are Fighting Back Against ICE A few enterprising hackers have started projects to do counter surveillance against ICE, and hopefully protect their communities through clever use of technology.

It can be hard to imagine how to defend oneself against an overwhelming force like ICE. But a few enterprising hackers have started projects to do counter-surveillance against ICE, and hopefully protect their communities through clever use of technology. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

Critics pan spyware maker NSO's transparency claims amid its push to enter US market | TechCrunch The infamous spyware maker released a new transparency report claiming to be a responsible spyware maker, without providing insight into how the company dealt with problematic customers in the past.

Not even the number of customers: NSO & other spyware companies publish empty transparency reports. Abuses continue techcrunch.com/2026/01/08/c... #staatstrojaner

Blackbox Palantir Wer nutzt in Deutschland Software von Palantir und wer hat das in naher Zukunft vor? Was sind die rechtlichen Voraussetzungen für den Ein...

CN Palantir

Sehr guter Vortrag vom CCC-Kongress über die Lobbyarbeit von Palantir, die noch angedachten Umstellungen darauf, die bisherigen Rechtsbrüche der Behörden, die Klagen dagegen und alles Drumherum!

(Die Polizeikritik hätte imho noch massiver sein können.)

#39c3 #Palantir #Polizeiproblem

The State of Anti-Surveillance Design The most effective surveillance-evading gear might already be in your closet.

Anti-Surveillance Design is about helping people with their mental abstraction of how surveillance works: Ways to disguise yourself from facial recognition systems in your everyday life www.404media.co/the-state-of...

Free Our Feeds - Update #5, November 2025 It’s the season for travel. Many of our custodians have traversed North America and Europe the past month, making stops at Attention: Govern or be governed, The Future of Democracy: Speech, Thought, S...

We're in Berlin this week with @eurosky.social and many others for #EuroskyLive, a conference on digital sovereignty, media independence, startup opportunities, and the future of social technology being built and governed in Europe. free-our-feeds.ghost.io/free-our-fee...

@eurosky.social is 🔴LIVE on stream.place! Eurosky Live from Berlin

🔴 LIVE https://stream.place/eurosky.social Eurosky Live from Berlin

@eurosky.social's livestream on stream.place Eurosky Live from Berlin

We've kicked off #EuroskyLive in Berlin. Livestream the event here: stream.place/eurosky.soci...

🚨 Brussels, today 🚨 Ursula! Fight for Europe – not for Trump’s tech bros.

Today, as the EU caves to pressure from Trump & Big Tech, campaigners in Brussels call on @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu to stand up for Europe and enforce our digital laws ✊#StandUpUrusla

🚨 Brussels, today 🚨Ursula! Stand up for Europe – not for Trump’s tech bros!

As the EU unveils its “Digital Omnibus” today, we're rolling out billboards calling on @vonderleyen.ec.europa.eu to stop bending to US and Big Tech pressure and enforce our digital laws #StandUpUrsula✊

standupursula - People vs. Big Tech STAND UP, URSULAFight for Europe - not for Trump and Big Tech Add your name now: demand the EU stand up to Trump and Big Tech - starting with breaking up

📣 Over 200,000 people have signed petitions demanding action. @wemoveeurope.bsky.social @avaaz.org

✍️ Add your voice now → StandUpUrsula.com #StandUpUrsula #EU #DataRights #GDPR

🚨 In Brussels today 🚨 @wemoveeurope.bsky.social, @peoplevsbigtech.bsky.social & EDRi are showing it's possible to take a big stand against toxic media, Big Tech and Trump.

The message: Ursula VDL (head of the European Commission) has a chance to stand up for citizens – not for Trump’s tech bros.

Tolle Aktion von @peoplevsbigtech.bsky.social u.a. in Brüssel: Die EU darf dem Lobbydruck von Big Tech und Trump nicht nachgeben! Die Digitalregeln und das Wettbewerbsrecht müssen wirksam durchgesetzt werden. Es ist Zeit, Google zu zerschlagen!

www.lobbycontrol.de/macht-der-di... #StandUpUrsula

The Fight Chat Control website is now available in an additional ten European languages: Български, Català, Deutsch, Nederlands, Ελληνικά, Español, Magyar, Português, Svenska, and Suomeksi.

fightchatcontrol.eu is now available in an additional ten European languages: Български, Català, Deutsch, Nederlands, Ελληνικά, Español, Magyar, Português, Svenska, and Suomeksi. A big thank you to all who contributed to these efforts!

Should you spot any issues, please reach out!

Interne Dokumente: EU-Staaten einigen sich auf freiwillige Chatkontrolle Die EU-Staaten einigen sich auf eine gemeinsame Position zur Chatkontrolle. Internet-Dienste sollen Kommunikation freiwillig lesen dürfen, werden aber nicht dazu verpflichtet. Wir veröffentlichen das ...

Die EU-Staaten einigen sich auf eine gemeinsame Position zur Chatkontrolle. Internet-Dienste sollen Kommunikation freiwillig lesen dürfen, werden aber nicht dazu verpflichtet. Wir veröffentlichen das eingestufte Verhandlungsprotokoll und den Gesetzentwurf. netzpolitik.org/2025/interne...

🇪🇺EU #ChatControl is NOT defeated yet! In an open letter top scientists warn the new proposal still poses "high risks" with flawed 'voluntary' AI mass scanning & invasive age checks. Italy & Poland have reservations, too […]

🇩🇪Die #Chatkontrolle ist noch NICHT vom Tisch! Spitzenwissenschaftler warnen: Der neue Vorschlag berge weiterhin „hohe Risiken“ durch fehlerhaftes ‚freiwilliges‘ KI-Massen-Scanning & invasive Alterskontrollen. Auch Italien & Polen haben Vorbehalte […]

🇫🇷 La #ChatControl de l'UE n'est PAS encore écartée ! Des scientifiques préviennent que le nouveau texte propose des scans de masse « volontaires » et défaillants par IA & des contrôles d'âge invasifs. L'Italie et la Pologne ont aussi des réserves […]

🇮🇹La #ChatControl dell'UE NON è ancora sconfitta! Scienziati avvertono che la nuova proposta presenta ancora «rischi elevati»: scansioni di massa "volontarie" tramite IA piene di errori e controlli dell'età invasivi. Anche Italia e Polonia hanno riserve […]

Interne Dokumente: EU-Staaten einigen sich auf freiwillige Chatkontrolle Die EU-Staaten einigen sich auf eine gemeinsame Position zur Chatkontrolle. Internet-Dienste sollen Kommunikation freiwillig lesen dürfen, werden aber nicht dazu verpflichtet. Wir veröffentlichen das ...

Die EU-Staaten einigen sich auf eine gemeinsame Position zur Chatkontrolle. Internet-Dienste sollen Kommunikation freiwillig lesen dürfen, werden aber nicht dazu verpflichtet. Wir veröffentlichen das eingestufte Verhandlungsprotokoll und den Gesetzentwurf. netzpolitik.org/2025/interne...

last paragraph of https://www.aclu.org/news/free-speech/app-store-oligopoly How we can push back In an increasingly centralized world, it will take very little for an abusive government to cause an effective organizing tool to disappear, to block an app that belongs to a critical dissenting media outlet, or to force invasive malware into a software update used by everyone. We need a shared infrastructure that doesn’t permit this kind of centralized control. We can disrupt oligopolistic control over software through user choice (e.g., preferring and installing free software), building good protocol frameworks (e.g., demanding tools that use open standards for interoperability), and through regulatory intervention (e.g., breaking up monopolistic actors, or mandating that an OS must allow sideloading, as the EU did with the DMA). The device you carry with you that is privy to much of your life should be under your control, not under the control of an abusive government or corporations that do its bidding.

hypercentralizers are not having a good day today -- #github has joined #cloudflare to block or slow down millions of folks from doing stuff.

Maybe a good time to checkout out this new ACLU article about the current Apple/Google app-store oligopoly […]

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While #cloudflare US-east1 is busy fixing a good part of the Internet, parts of Matrix/Element, X etc down, good old decentralized #chatmail mostly continues nicely and without any degradation :)

In other news, there is a new #freebsd community maintained ❤️ #deltachat desktop install:

pkg […]

What happened today? Behind closed doors, the Law Enforcement Working Party group approved the revised Danish Chat Control compromise with broad support. While mandatory scanning had officially been dropped, Article 4 of the new text reframes and reintroduces it by obliging providers of e-mail, chat, and messenger services to take “all appropriate risk mitigation measures”. This effectively forces providers to scan all messages, including private, end-to-end encrypted content. The same article outlaws anonymous communication by requiring every citizen to verify their age before accessing a service, kneecapping whistleblowers, journalists, political activists, and people seeking help who depend on anonymity. Article 6 further imposes a, digital house arrest and would ban minors from installing software which comes with a significant risk of grooming, such as WhatsApp, Instagram, and online games like Roblox. What happens next? The legislation now moves to the Coreper (Committee of Permanent Representations) for approval. Without major political objections, the Council will formally adopt its position. At this stage, both the Council and Commission unite in imposing mass surveillance on all 450 million citizens of the European Union and we enter a rushed trilogue. Unfortunately, while the mandate of the European Parliament does not suffer from the same flaws, the Parliament is traditionally known for giving in. What now? We raise our voices. Louder.

Denmark and other EU governments still pursue #chatcontrol.

They still want to permanently legalize client-side scanning but postponed making it mandatory.

They also want to increase age-verification controls which risk to ruin what little is left of privacy […]

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#deltachat is a private messaging app. It'd be easy enough to offer various public groups to boost onboarding, and let everyone play. But one would land in a large group that isn't very private, with lots of needs for moderation tooling, troll handling and other social-media issues. Not our […]

Start screen of https;//get.delta.chat apps which shows Delta chat logo (Greek letter delta) Secure decentralized chat "Create new profile" button highlighted

Create profile screen With a field to enter a name ... "Fediverse chicken" was typed A link to the privacy policy of nine.testrun.org, the default onboarding chatmail relay A highlighted button "agree and continue" A button "use other server"

Screenshot of newly created profile Title bar "fediverse chicken" Two chats in the chat list: "Device messages" with instructions how to setup contact with another chat profile "Saved messages" where you can "save" messages from other chats to memorize them

We hereby challenge _all_ other messaging apps, FOSS or not, to provide a more convenient private onboarding experience than #deltachat

1. Install app
2. "Create new profile"
3. Enter nick name, tap "Agree and continue"
4. Tap "+" and "new contact" and […]

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Framework Laptop 12 parts

Framework Laptop 12 pre-orders open on April 9th at 8am Pacific! We'll be sharing pricing, full specs, and shipment timing then. This is the most mission-aligned product we've built, and we can't wait to see what you think of it.

YouTube video by Framework We built a non-boring computer: the Framework Laptop 12.

We also posted a hands-on video talking more through the product design and philosophy today:

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ejl-...