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@PrivacyMatters @privacymatters.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14h

@echo_pbreyer thank you for all your hard work and efforts (& others too!)

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Patrick Breyer @echo-pbreyer.digitalcourage.social.ap.brid.gy · 14h

🇪🇺 EU diplomats discussed #chatcontrol today. Result: No majority, so the vote planned for next week will be called off. https://orf.at/stories/3407810/
A huge success in our fight for freedom!🎉💪
Next goal: No suspicionless scanning, not even on a voluntary basis!

Verhandlungen zu „Chatkontrolle“ vorerst gescheitert

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@PrivacyMatters @privacymatters.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 14h

WTF

Apple Quietly Made ICE Agents a Protected Class.

Internal emails show tech giant used anti-hate-speech rules meant for minorities to block an app documenting immigration enforcement.

https://migrantinsider.com/p/scoop-apple-quietly-made-ice-agents

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Torment Nexus @priva.cat · 15h

I love this initiative and happily used it to send a customized message to my MEPs. It saddens me that Ireland is a supporter of this affront to rights and freedoms, and I hope they all get lots of messages from similarly concerned constituents.

Fight Chat Control @fightchatcontrol.bsky.social · 2d

Take action!

fightchatcontrol.eu to contact your ministers, permanent representation, MEPs, and, if you are German or Italian, your national MPs!

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mariafarrell @mariafarrell.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23h

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mariafarrell/115333913079023817

Well this is admirably concise and direct by Germany's justice ministry.

"Chat control without cause must be taboo in a state governed by the rule of law. Private communication must never be under general suspicion."

THANK YOU […]

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Patrick Breyer @echo-pbreyer.digitalcourage.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

🇪🇺Germany's Minister of Justice today: "Suspicionless #chatcontrol must be taboo in a state governed by the rule of law." Private communication cannot be placed under general suspicion. "Germany will not agree to such proposals at the EU level." […]

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@PrivacyMatters @privacymatters.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

@mariafarrell https://digitalcourage.social/@echo_pbreyer/115333943021246229

Patrick Breyer (@[email protected])

Attached: 1 image 🇪🇺YOU ARE AMAZING: ❤️ Your protest stopped #ChatControl! I hear Germany isn't caving in; so there's no majority in the EU Council. Digital privacy is safe for now! Let's celebrate this huge success TOGETHER! 🎉 Details: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/citizen-protest-halts-chat-control-breyer-celebrates-major-victory-for-digital-privacy/

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Patrick Breyer @echo-pbreyer.digitalcourage.social.ap.brid.gy · 1d

🇪🇺YOU ARE AMAZING: ❤️ Your protest stopped #chatcontrol! I hear Germany isn't caving in; so there's no majority in the EU Council. Digital privacy is safe for now! Let's celebrate this huge success TOGETHER! 🎉
Details […]

[Original post on digitalcourage.social]

A map of Europe titled "Help Stop #ChatControl!" shows countries colored according to their government's stance on ChatControl in 2025. The legend explains: Green stands for "Against", Blue for "Undecided", and Red for "In Favor".

The following countries are in favor (red): Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, France, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Lithuania, Malta, Portugal, Spain, and Sweden.

The following countries are against it (green): Austria, Czechia, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia, and Slovenia.

The following countries are undecided (blue): Belgium, Greece, Latvia, Romania.

At the bottom is the call to action: "Act now! www.chatcontrol.eu".

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@PrivacyMatters @privacymatters.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 22d

Claims that the UK could leave the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) without breaching the 1998 Good Friday Agreement (GFA) are “not credible”, a new report has concluded.

https://www.irishlegal.com/articles/uk-withdrawal-from-echr-would-breach-good-friday-agreement

UK withdrawal from ECHR would breach Good Friday Agreement

Claims that the UK could leave the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR) without breaching the 1998 Good Friday Agreement (GFA) are "not credible", a new report has concluded. A new report by Professor Colin Murray of Newcastle University and Professor Aoife O'Donoghue of Queen's University Bel

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@PrivacyMatters @privacymatters.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 21d

Ten things you can do to help defeat Farage, Musk, and rightwing populism

https://guyshrubsole.substack.com/p/ten-things-you-can-do-to-help-defeat

Ten things you can do to help defeat Farage, Musk, and rightwing populism

I’m mad as hell, and I’m not going to take it anymore.

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@PrivacyMatters @privacymatters.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10d

25 Sept 25: UK Mobile Operators Launch Age Verification and Anti-Fraud APIs Through GSMA Open Gateway Initiative 🤔

https://www.gsma.com/newsroom/press-release/uk-mobile-operators-launch-age-verification-and-anti-fraud-apis-through-gsma-open-gateway-initiative/

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Bruce Lawson ✅ ♫ ♿ ✌️♂️✊ @brucelawson.vivaldi.net.ap.brid.gy · 4d

Happy Anniversary of the Battle of Cable Street, to all decent people.

Plaque "THE BATTLE OF CABLE STREET
The people of East London rallied to Cable Street on the 4th October 1936 and forced back the march of the fascist
Oswald Mosley and his Blackshirts through the streets of the East End.
"THEY SHALL NOT PASS""

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@PrivacyMatters @privacymatters.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 5d

Well. Well.

Surveillance company *cough* Palantir says it “has ruled out helping the UK government to implement its digital ID card scheme, saying it lacks democratic legitimacy.”
https://archive.ph/MncRd

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Patrick Breyer @echo-pbreyer.digitalcourage.social.ap.brid.gy · 6d

🇪🇺🚨 HUGE NEWS: #chatcontrol vote reportedly to be postponed (unconfirmed)! 🎉 Our protests are working! https://x.com/SeppTyvaert/status/1973788987442803023

But it's just a delay. Many governments are still undecided. ⏰ Tell YOURS to join the resistance […]

[Original post on digitalcourage.social]

A map of Europe titled "Help Stop #ChatControl!" shows countries color-coded by their government's stance on Chat Control in 2025. The legend indicates: green for "Not in Favour," blue for "Undecided," and red for "In Favour."

Countries in favour (red) are: Bulgaria, Croatia, Cyprus, Denmark, France, Hungary, Ireland, Lithuania, Malta, Portugal, Spain, and Sweden.

Countries not in favour (green) are: Austria, Czechia, Estonia, Finland, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Poland, Slovakia and Slovenia.

Countries undecided (blue) are: Belgium, Germany, Greece, Italy, Latvia, Romania.

The map includes the text "Is your government opposing it yet?" and a call to action at the bottom: "Act now! www.chatcontrol.eu".

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Paul Chambers🚧 @paul.oldfriends.live.ap.brid.gy · 6d

Have had a dedicated email address literally used only for official Social Security and Medicare since January 14, 2010 for logging in, account purposes, etc. The only email that I have received has come from .gov email accounts.

For the first time ever, I […]

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email from Humana.com Medicare Advantage plan, content irrelevant .

@PrivacyMatters @privacymatters.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 6d

LinkedIn has filed a federal lawsuit against ProAPIs & its principal, Rehmat Alam, for the unauthorized scraping of millions of LinkedIn member profiles, including by using over a million continuously created (and swiftly restricted) fake accounts […]

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@PrivacyMatters @privacymatters.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 7d

It’s reported that ‘The UK government has issued a new order to Apple to create a backdoor into its cloud storage service, this time targeting only British users’ data, despite US claims that Britain had abandoned all attempts to break the tech giant’s encryption.’ https://archive.is/5QXk3

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Amee Vanderpool @girlsreallyrule.bsky.social · 8d

In a 161- page blistering ruling, a federal judge determined that the Trump administration’s policy to detain and deport foreign scholars over pro-Palestinian views violates the US constitution and was designed to “intentionally” chill free speech rights. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

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Radley Balko @radleybalko.bsky.social · 8d

The president just gathered the highest ranking officers in the military to tell them that he may order them to kill American citizens -- and that they better follow his orders. All in response to a series of crises that have no basis in reality.

I don't know how to yell any louder.

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EPIC @epic.org · 8d

🚨 BREAKING: EPIC and partner organizations have filed a class action lawsuit to stop the Trump-Vance administration’s unlawful creation of “national data banks” that consolidate millions of Americans’ most sensitive personal records across federal agencies.
epic.org/press-releas...

PRESS RELEASE: Class Action Lawsuit Challenges Trump-Vance Administration’s Unlawful “National Data Banks” That Consolidate Sensitive Personal Information Across Federal Agencies

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@PrivacyMatters @privacymatters.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 9d

This morning someone on @bluesky
asked folks to DM them for a test. I set my VPN to Ireland while on a UK mobile network but couldn’t send a DM unless I underwent age verification (cos Bluesky blocks DMs unless you agree verify cos OSA 🤷‍♂️ & which I won’t undergo). Back at home on WiFi no issue […]

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@PrivacyMatters @privacymatters.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 10d

25 Sept 25: UK Mobile Operators Launch Age Verification and Anti-Fraud APIs Through GSMA Open Gateway Initiative 🤔

https://www.gsma.com/newsroom/press-release/uk-mobile-operators-launch-age-verification-and-anti-fraud-apis-through-gsma-open-gateway-initiative/

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petersuber @petersuber.fediscience.org.ap.brid.gy · 10d

Update. "#austria's military has switched from #microsoftoffice to #LibreOffice. The move was all about digital sovereignty, not cost savings. Other governments are moving away from Microsoft to protect their citizens' privacy." […]

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@PrivacyMatters @privacymatters.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 11d

Counter Reform UK https://standuptoracism.org.uk/stop-the-growth-of-reform-uk/?

Stop the growth of Reform UK - Stand Up to Racism

Reform UK now has five MPs, over 70 councillors and 200,000 members. Nigel Farage boasts that he is building a “people’s army” across Britain. Reform UK

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