Next week a third vote is planned on Chat Control 1.0 a proposal that would enable mass scanning of private messages while many MEPs are on vacation. Contact your MEPs now to oppose it and stop it from being pushed through. We need to oppose this NOW:
Monday's SCOTUS ruling against the FTC is the final nail in the coffin of the Data Privacy Framework (the adequacy agreement between the EU and US which allows personal data to flow to the US).
I'm looking to start using something more privacy respecting for daily messaging (texts, calls, maybe group chats). People don't seem to have like the default recommendation when I ask this question but curious if this community has thoughts on something else. What matters most to you like metadata collection, jurisdiction, open source, ease of use for non-technical contacts? Would love to hear real world experiences and not just feature comparisons.
So i kinda started caring agin, before yesterdy i wasnt really aginst it or for it because they numbed it down a couple months ago but now i learn some of the things are coming back.. can someone truthfully answer theese questions:
Also please answer simply and not vaugely like they loooove to in the EU statements
They had a meeting today but nobody seems to disclose anything yet. Are we expecting any public transparency at all?
I have noticed that many healthcare workers and practices (hostpitals, clinics, medical centers, etc...) use WhatsApp, Gmail, and Zoom to communicate with and about patients. I am not comfortable with that.
1) a) Is that GDPR compliant?
b) Is it a violation of patient privacy? Especially if there was no informed consent, which would include informing the patient of the risks?
3) If there are NOT GDPR compliant are there any journal / legal articles or other reputable sources that confirm this?
I having trouble finding any.
4) Can I be refused care if my therapist refuses to use end-to-end encrypted tools like Signal and Proton Meet and password protected PDFs to communicate with me?
Who the fuck decided that this was a good idea
The 23andMe collapse is the thing that made all of this click for me so apologies if this is old news to people here.
When they filed for bankruptcy, roughly 15 million people's genetic data was sitting there as a company asset, something that could be sold off to whoever ended up buying the corpse. A whole coalition of state attorneys general had to go to court to try to block it, and they were literally telling people to delete their data and destroy their samples before it changed hands.
Once I saw this happens with DNA I could not unsee it everywhere else. My period tracker was a US app that already got caught selling cycle data. My old blood results sit in a portal owned by a lab that answers to US law. Even my wearable phones home somewhere I cannot point to on a map, quietly living under a jurisdiction I have no say in, governed by things like the CLOUD Act that I never agreed to.
So I have been trying to pull my health data back somewhere I actually control and it is harder than degoogling a phone. Where I have got to: deleted the 23andMe account and requested sample destruction, for what that is worth, moved cycle tracking to an open source app that keeps everything on-device (Drip), and for bloodwork I went with a European service (Lucis) instead of a US one like Function Health, so the labs and the data stay in the EU under European health-data rules rather than on a US company's servers.
So for the people here who have actually done it, how deep does it go, and where did you draw the line between privacy and just being able to live your life.
One of the things I think about, when I'm worried about the chat control proposal is this: What can there be a good way to fight against this unjust law once its finally passed? I pray that, even when this will piss off the authorities, someone will develop an "illegal" and secret chatroom and email service that never complies with this draconian system
If you're wondering what you should you do if asked to confirm your identity or age online, or what options create the least risk to your personal information, this guide is for you.
It was written as part of EFF's Age Verification and Age-Gating Resource Hub.
If you're already doing age verification why the FUCK would you do it with persona
