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Irish Council for Civil Liberties 🏳️‍🌈 @iccl.bsky.social · 9d

EU governments will soon vote on whether they support the "Chat Control" bill. If passed, then every message you send will be scanned for child abuse material, even on encrypted apps like WhatsApp — undermining the privacy and security of everyone in the EU ➡️ www.iccl.ie/news/iccl-an...

ICCL and DRI welcome Justice Committee's concerns about proposed EU law which could lead to mass surveillance of private messages and emails

The proposed EU law could mandate the monitoring of virtually all public and private digital communications

www.iccl.ie

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Johnny Ryan @johnnyryan.bsky.social · 6d

We told the DPC about this. It has known for years.
But yesterday it released this in a statement - perhaps in an attempt to absolve itself from the location scandal shown on national TV recently.
The statement is incorrect.

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Johnny Ryan @johnnyryan.bsky.social · 6d

Screenshot from their website shows where a person is, and where they were on what previous days.
Google and other major RTB players are shown as sources for their worldwide data.
www.iccl.ie/wp-content/u...

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Johnny Ryan @johnnyryan.bsky.social · 6d

After 8 years of inaction, the DPC now claims that RTB adtech does not provide location data to dodgy firms.
Wrong.
Meet "Patternz" for example:
An Israeli surveillance tool built on RTB data that provides a targeted individual's coordinates and "driving path" www.iccl.ie/wp-content/u...

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olgacronin.bsky.social @olgacronin.bsky.social · 6d

Here's a video explaining how Chat Control surveillance would work by the Max Planck Institute for Security and Privacy...

fair.tube/w/72DCPMByyS...

#speirgorm

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Signal @signal.org · 9d

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

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olgacronin.bsky.social @olgacronin.bsky.social · 9d

I just emailed Minister of Justice Jim O'Callaghan demanding Ireland does not support the new Chat Control bill - a mass surveillance, encryption-breaking and anonymity-ending law: Will you do the same? action.uplift.ie/campaigns/st...

Stop EU Chat Control

I just emailed Minister of Justice Jim O'Callaghan demanding Ireland does not support the new Chat Control bill which lets the EU read all of your WhatsApp and Signal messages without encryption. Will...

action.uplift.ie

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Lamhfada @lamhfada.bsky.social · 9d

I just emailed Minister of Justice Jim O'Callaghan demanding Ireland does not support the new Chat Control bill which lets the EU read all of your WhatsApp and Signal messages without encryption. Will you do the same? action.uplift.ie/campaigns/st...

#Spéirghorm #Ireland #ChatControl

Stop EU Chat Control

I just emailed Minister of Justice Jim O'Callaghan demanding Ireland does not support the new Chat Control bill which lets the EU read all of your WhatsApp and Signal messages without encryption. Will...

action.uplift.ie

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Simon McGarr @tupped.bsky.social · 11d

Sorry, but this is some old baloney. But also, I have GDPR questions about the emergance of this story.

The Journal @thejournal.ie · 11d

Counter-terrorism gardaí intervened to stop Catherine Connolly from hiring a woman convicted of a gun crime to work in Leinster House, The Journal has learned.
http://jrnl.ie/6830299t

Gardaí blocked Catherine Connolly from hiring woman convicted of gun crime

The presidential candidate sought to hire Ursula Ní Shionnáin, a former Éirigí member who was sentenced to six years in jail by the Special Criminal Court.

jrnl.ie

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CCC @ccc.de · 11d

Chat Control would make it mandatory for service providers to scan all communications & files. There’s no system that’s only for the “good guys” www.eff.org/deeplinks/20... #chatkontrolle

Chat Control Is Back on the Menu in the EU. It Still Must Be Stopped

The European Union Council is once again debating its controversial message scanning proposal, aka “Chat Control,” that would lead to the scanning of private conversations of billions of people. Chat…

www.eff.org

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Greens/EFA in the EU Parliament 🌍 @greens-efa.eu · 12d

Stop #ChatControl: Why scanning all our private messages is a very bad idea. Learn what you can do to stop it.

We are now 🔴 live with our MEP @marketkag.bsky.social and experts from Signal, CDT & more. 👇

Stop Chat Control: Why scanning all our private messages is a very bad idea

The government should not have access to all the messages or photos you send. Period. Scanning all messages, photos and files, without consent or even suspicion is a major breach of our right to…

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Irish Council for Civil Liberties 🏳️‍🌈 @iccl.bsky.social · 19d

Women's Aid, the Garda Representative Association (GRA) and the Representative Association of Commissioned Officers (RACO) have called for action to be taken to address the sale of smartphone location data by brokers in the #AdTech industry ➡️ www.rte.ie/news/primeti...

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Johnny Ryan @johnnyryan.bsky.social · 22d

On @antonsavage.bsky.social NewsTalk Radio this morning:
We warned Helen McEntee (then Minister for Justice) five years ago about Data Protection Commission's refusal to stop the flow of data about Irish people to data brokers - as now exposed by RTE Prime Time.

www.iccl.ie/news/iccl-wa...

ICCL warned watchdog about sale of Irish sexual abuse survivors’ data in 2020 — but DPC and minister did nothing

In 2020, ICCL went undercover and purchased data identifying 200 Irish people tagged as survivors of sexual abuse. The findings were handed to the Data Protection Commission and the Minister for Justi...

www.iccl.ie

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olgacronin.bsky.social @olgacronin.bsky.social · 22d

In light of RTÉ Prime Time exposé, @johnnyryan.bsky.social spoke today on radio about how in 2020 he bought similar data identifying 200 Irish people tagged as sex abuse survivors. He gave evidence of this - and more - to DPC and Justice Minister... but nothing happened.

www.iccl.ie/news/iccl-wa...

ICCL warned watchdog about sale of Irish sexual abuse survivors’ data in 2020 — but DPC and minister did nothing

In 2020, ICCL went undercover and purchased data identifying 200 Irish people tagged as survivors of sexual abuse. The findings were handed to the Data Protection Commission and the Minister for Justi...

www.iccl.ie

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 24d

NEW

Has the government overreached in using terrorism law against Palestine Action?

A disclosed MI5 document indicates that the basis for proscription may be weak

By me, at @prospectmagazine.co.uk

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

The New York Times has now published a document which sets out the government’s basis for the proscription. This is the “open” version of the MI5 assessment that has been placed before the courts in litigation challenging the proscription. The judges would also see a “closed” version with material not to be placed in the public domain.

One hopes the “closed” version is a far more impressive document than the one published, which is a flimsy and unconvincing piece of work. The assessment even admits—twice—that most of the activity of Palestine Action cannot be called terrorism.

The document overall reads as if it has been compiled backwards, intending to justify a conclusion that needed to be reached. If so, it will not be the first intelligence document to have been created in such a way.

The assessment relies on the group having caused “serious” property damage, which is the relevant statutory test. The problem here is that the spraying of paint and graffiti by the group does not meet the threshold of seriousness.

The document also relies on “open source” estimates of the cost of damage which, if one looks at the cited sources, trace back to a claim which the police themselves put to arrested protesters in interview. As such there is a certain circularity: the state is relying on the state claiming the damage is serious.

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Johnny Ryan @johnnyryan.bsky.social · 23d

Cantillon in the mornings Irish Times

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Johnny Ryan @johnnyryan.bsky.social · 24d

@sineadgibney.bsky.social asks @simonharrisireland.bsky.social
"This is something that the DPC has been aware of for many, many years, and has failed to act on. Why is our regulator unable to regulate? How can you stand over the DPC as a credible organisation?"

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Johnny Ryan @johnnyryan.bsky.social · 24d

Important question in the Dail today after the RTE Prime Time expose on the sale of data about people's locations

@ivanabacik.bsky.social asks @simonharrisireland.bsky.social
After 8 years of inaction on Real-Time Bidding, how can you continue to have confidence in the Data Protection Commission?

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Johnny Ryan @johnnyryan.bsky.social · 25d

We cooperated with RTE PrimeTime over the last year on this very significant story about RTB data exposing the movements of Irish people, including military and political personnel.

Link to this morning's preview piece is here --> www.rte.ie/news/primeti...

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Una Mullally @unamullally.bsky.social · 27d

Must-read thread about the Irish Public Services Card ⬇️

olgacronin.bsky.social @olgacronin.bsky.social · Sep 13

The DPC announced its findings against the Dept of Social Protection and its use of facial recognition technology as part of the registration process, called SAFE 2, for the Public Services Card (PSC), in July. It published the decision yesterday afternoon

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Éibhear Ó hAnluain @eibhear.gibiris.org · 27d

The Department of Social Protection's *illegal* facial recognition technology built into the Public Services Card is so poor it required a human to confirm or contradict its matching 95% of the time!

... and as well as being illegal, it cost us €100m.

olgacronin.bsky.social @olgacronin.bsky.social · 29d

The DPC’s decision shows that human intervention is required in a significant proportion of cases. Approximately 35% of new registrations are referred for human evaluation, while for PSC renewals, 95% of one-to-one matches and 45% of one-to-many matches require human review. The DPC notes:

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Karlin Lillington @klillington.bsky.social · 27d

Thread. Why people need to question the reasoning and actual evidence and all subsequent usage for these kinds of biometric projects (an d remember the dept insisted these photos were NOT biometric even though this thread shows they absolutely were!). And a piddly 20 fraud convictions in 4 years

olgacronin.bsky.social @olgacronin.bsky.social · Sep 13

The DPC announced its findings against the Dept of Social Protection and its use of facial recognition technology as part of the registration process, called SAFE 2, for the Public Services Card (PSC), in July. It published the decision yesterday afternoon

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Tristan Sturm @tristansturm.bsky.social · 28d

Liz's (@elizabethfarries.bsky.social ) new book, Platforming Cancel Culture, just out! Read it before you get cancelled!

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Chai Patel @chaipatel.net · Sep 13

Ah yes if black and brown people throw a party we need to scan their faces.

White supremacists organising a hate march do not need to worry about their privacy. The police have them covered.

This btw is also why everyone arguing for digital id in this country is either naive or dangerous.

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Police are not using live facial recognition in its policing of the 'Unite the Kingdom' demonstration which is beginning on London's south bank, reports the PA news agency.
It said:
• We're using a mobile CCTV van to help monitor the build up of crowds. Officers have been asked if it's using 'live facial recognition' - we can confirm it is not.
The live facial recognition technology - which captures people's faces in real-time CCTV
cameras - was used in the policing operation at the Notting Hill carnival.

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Alec Muffett @alecmuffett.bsky.social · Sep 13

Hey, global citizens, aren’t you glad that you have end-to-end encrypted messenger systems that meaningfully protect your chat content without being scanned or filtered by the government?
https://alecmuffett.com/article/114972

Hey, global citizens, aren’t you glad that you have end-to-end encrypted messenger systems that meaningfully protect your chat content without being scanned or filtered by the government?

Hegseth tells Pentagon staff to hunt for negative Charlie Kirk posts by service members

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