#News about Samuel #Tunick’s prosecution, a sort of #interview with him. #human-rights #privacy #USA #politics
on 02026-08-21#PHK says we’re about to get “surveillance too cheap to meter”, specifically because of how telcos work and how #Apple and #Google work. “Either we slap a stiff tax on surveillance data, or we learn to love the panopticon.” #human-rights
on 02026-08-18“The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled that publishers and VPN providers aren’t liable for #copyright infringement” #law #human-rights #privacy
on 02026-07-30ongoing mass killings. #human-rights #politics
on 02026-07-16#Google #reCAPTCHA #security “As we identify potentially fraudulent behavior from agents, we enable application providers to deter and mitigate malicious requests by requesting humans to be in the loop using the new QR code-based challenge. This AI-resistant mitigation challenge to prove human presence is designed to make automated fraud economically unviable. ... Existing reCAPTCHA customers are automatically Fraud Defense customers, with no migration required, no action needed, and no change to pricing.” #privacy #human-rights
on 02026-06-30#GrapheneOS #security will be impacted by #Google #reCAPTCHA update that requires a mobile app installed. #privacy #human-rights
on 02026-06-30Discussion of #age-verification as a Trojan horse for mass #surveillance. #human-rights
on 02026-06-23This is unsurprising but bad for #human-rights. Using BlueTooth, Wi-Fi, and license plates:
“An Integrated Signal Intelligence System
“Identify Suspects by the Electronic Devices They Use
“#ELSAG "SignalTrace" is a groundbreaking software system for law enforcement, designed to identify suspect people or vehicles, even when a license plate number is not known. This system integrates seamlessly with the ELSAG Enterprise Operations Center, our standard data management and analysis software.
“SignalTrace is designed to help law enforcement identify people of interest by the signals emitted from their electronic devices they travel with, such as fitness trackers, smartwatches, RFID tags, and local signals from their mobile phones.
“(...) while 70 cars in 100 may contain iPhones, only one will have an iPhone 13rev2, an Audi radio, a pair of Bose headphones, a Garmin sports watch, a key finder, and the license plate ABC-1234.”
Their defense against accusations of #privacy invasion: “Respects individuals’ privacy rights (does not decrypt or read content from devices).” But they’re doing dragnet data collection on innocent people: “The SignalTrace system simply stores data until a specific request is made of the system by an investigator. It allows an electronic signature to be alerted on once it has been identified in the process of an investigation, and only in a case where a crime occurred.” They show a photo of one mounted on a utility pole with a couple of panel antennas.
on 02026-06-22the Trinidad, Texas water quality post that got its author thrown in jail. #human-rights #censorship #USA #Facebook
on 02026-05-23Trinidad, Texas water quality. #human-rights #censorship #USA #Facebook
on 02026-05-23a #human-rights abuse familiar from before the American Revolution: quartering of over a million government officials in #Uyghur homes to quell rebellion against #China.
on 02026-05-04#politics #Android #human-rights
on 02026-04-28#news #video: grand jury indicts #SPLC, one of the most important #human-rights NGOs in the #USA, on 10 counts of wire and bank fraud and one count of conspiracy to commit money laundering, because they paid informants to infiltrate white-supremacist groups. But Attorney General Todd Blanche, who is prosecuting them, didn’t claim in his press conference that they were cheating people out of money, but, rather, that they were “paying sources to stoke racial hatred”.
on 02026-04-21#USA #politics #censorship #human-rights: “Amandla Thomas-Johnson was a Ph.D. candidate studying in the U.S. on a student visa when he briefly attended a pro-Palestinian protest. In April 2025, Immigration and Customs Enforcement (#ICE) sent #Google an administrative subpoena requesting his data. The next month, Google gave Thomas-Johnson’s information to ICE without giving him the chance to challenge the subpoena, breaking a nearly decade-long promise to notify users before handing their data to law enforcement.”
on 02026-04-15#politics #USA #California #human-rights
on 02026-04-14#4chan #Ofcom #UK #censorship #lawsuit filing history. #human-rights
on 02026-04-14#fiction "Lena" about "MMAcevedo", though apparently there’s an updated version I haven’t read. Explores mind uploading and #human-rights in the form of a fictional Wikipedia article from the 02080s.
on 02026-04-11discussion of #Microsoft nuking #VeraCrypt and #WireGuard. #privacy #human-rights
on 02026-04-08Scott Hanselman (#Microsoft VP) claiming #Microsoft nuked #VeraCrypt and #WireGuard by accident. #privacy #human-rights
on 02026-04-08the announcement of #Microsoft nuking essential #security software #VeraCrypt. #privacy #human-rights
on 02026-04-08discussion on the new #Microsoft revocation of #VeraCrypt and #WireGuard signing keys, possibly in an attack on #privacy and #human-rights.
on 02026-04-08"WindScribe" also just got their signing keys revoked for publishing Microsoft Windows software, but there are clues that this may be resolved soon? #privacy #security #human-rights
on 02026-04-08archive of <https://www.404media.co/microsoft-abruptly-terminates-veracrypt-account-halting-windows-updates/>: #Microsoft terminates the signing accounts of #VeraCrypt and #WireGuard, essential #encryption #security systems for Microsoft Windows. This prevents any future versions of the software from being installed, but does not disable existing installs, until July: “Users who have enabled system encryption with VeraCrypt may face boot issues after July 2026 because Microsoft will revoke the [certificate authority] that was used to sign the VeraCrypt bootloader.” #privacy #human-rights
on 02026-04-08#review of Kenneth Roth’s book about his career at #Human-Rights Watch.
on 02026-04-07“Lenore Burnley, the mother of Chad Joseph (26), and Sallycar Korasingh, the sister of Rishi Samaroo (41), are the plaintiffs in the case.
Their court papers allege violations of the Death on the High Seas Act, a 1920 law that makes the U.S. government liable if its agents engage in negligence that results in wrongful death more than 3 miles off American shores. A second claim alleges violations of the Alien Tort Statute, which allows foreign citizens to sue over human rights violations such as deaths that occurred outside an armed conflict, with no judicial process.” Two fishermen doing farm work in #Venezuela with no ties to the drug trade. #human-rights #USA
on 02026-04-03Dolores Huerta and other women say they were raped be #Cesar-Chavez. #history #human-rights #rape #feminism
on 02026-03-19#Ukraine war atrocities by Russian troops in 02022. #human-rights
on 02026-03-17#Trump #censorship of academics. #USA #politics #human-rights
on 02026-03-11#ICE using #Mobile-Fortify to do #facial-recognition against #USA #politics protestors and revoking their #Global-Entry status. #human-rights
on 02026-02-16#privacy #human-rights #crypto #news: “by default, #BitLocker recovery keys are uploaded to Microsoft’s cloud, allowing the tech giant — and by extension law enforcement — to access them and use them to decrypt drives encrypted with BitLocker, as with the case reported by Forbes.”
on 02026-01-25#Iran jamming #Starlink to violate #human-rights with impunity. #censorship
on 02026-01-15Oh shit. #Iran #politics #human-rights #news
on 02026-01-15#USA #immigration #human-rights #news: “Atlanta journalist says he ‘won’t be the only’ one deported by #Trump officials: Emmy award-winner Mario Guevara warns administration ‘has the power’ after he was arrested and sent to El Salvador. (...) three days after Guevara’s interview, the British journalist Sami Hamdi was detained by federal immigration authorities.” #censorship
on 02026-01-13#Nile-Red on #video about how buying a big separatory funnel got him a call from the RCMP. #human-rights
on 02026-01-03Mangled copy of Cory Doctorow’s short story “Scroogled” about #human-rights and #privacy in the #Google era.
on 02025-12-13#EFF launches #age-verification hub. #toread #human-rights #privacy
on 02025-12-12going through #Snowden documents today. #toread #human-rights
on 02025-12-12thread on HN from 02013 about #Snowden #human-rights
on 02025-12-12#News that #Facebook is shutting down #LGBT and #abortion information accounts, including in countries where they’re legal. #censorship #human-rights
on 02025-12-11January #news about #Facebook employees getting mad because people will be allowed to use Facebook to say LGBTQA+ people are “mentally ill” #censorship #human-rights #LGBT
on 02025-12-11#India is retracting its ultimatum to install #Sanchar-Saathi in the face of resistance from #Samsung and #Apple. #human-rights
on 02025-12-03#news from 02022 of Google flagging Mark [anonymous]’s Google account for child porn when he sent a photo of his toddler son’s infected penis to the doctor and reported him to the police. The police decided no abuse had happened but he never got his account back. #privacy #human-rights #USA #politics
on 02025-11-27#USA #politics of #Facebook providing communication for online #slavery markets. #human-rights
on 02025-11-27halfway into the coffin. #human-rights
on 02025-11-11SaSu (Sanctioned Suicide) is attempting to stop #UK #censorship by IP-blocking the whole country, but apparently that’s not enough. #human-rights #politics #Ofcom
on 02025-11-11"#Trump’s recent order calls for the National Guard to have a standing force ready for “quelling civil disturbances and ensuring the public safety.”” “ADDITIONAL MEASURES TO ADDRESS THE CRIME EMERGENCY IN THE DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA” is the name of the EO. “ensure the availability of a standing National Guard quick reaction force that shall be resourced, trained, and available for rapid nationwide deployment.” But only 600 soldiers? “Just this week, a federal judge ruled that Trump’s federalization and deployment of the California National Guard to Los Angeles over the objections of Governor Newsom was a violation of the Posse Comitatus Act, which bars the president from using the military for domestic policing unless he first invokes the Insurrection Act. (...) But if the courts do intervene, don’t expect Trump to give up on the idea. The most likely scenario is a similar project, but staffed with #ICE, Border Patrol, FBI, or DHS officers instead.” #USA #politics #human-rights
on 02025-10-02“For a future with #privacy, not mass #surveillance, #Germany must stand firmly against client-side scanning in the #Chat-Control proposal” #politics #EU #human-rights #PDF
on 02025-10-02“The point of this module is specific to German internet politics. It can be considered an ode to the German Minister for Family Affairs, Ursula von der #Leyen.
Among German geeks, she is known as "Zensursula", a combination of “Zensur” (German for “#censorship”) and “Ursula”. She has been pushing for legislation to force ISPs to censor the web much in the same way that China does.” #Germany #politics #human-rights (note that von der Leyen is currently the president of the #EU)
on 02025-10-02#USA #politics #ICE beating up US citizens and legal immigrants, apparently because they’re brown. #human-rights #racism
on 02025-09-29“the last known Native manufacturer of stone arrowheads (...) Ishi, which means “man” in the Yana language, is an adopted name. The anthropologist Alfred Kroeber gave him this name because in the Yahi culture, tradition demanded that he not speak his own name until formally introduced by another Yahi.[2] When asked his name, he said: “I have none, because there were no people to name me”, meaning that there was no other Yahi to speak his name on his behalf.” #archaeology #genocide #human-rights #history
on 02025-09-29#video of Jimmy #Kimmel’s opening monologue tonight, his first night back on the air. #USA #politics #censorship #human-rights
on 02025-09-23#news #video from #CNN saying #Kimmel is returning to the air, under pressure from people including Ted Cruz. #human-rights #censorship #USA #politics
on 02025-09-22#video #humor #news of last night’s Stephen Colbert show about #Kimmel’s firing #censorship #human-rights #USA #politics
on 02025-09-19#video #humor #news of last night’s John Stewart Daily Show about #Kimmel’s firing #censorship #human-rights #politics #USA
on 02025-09-19Disturbing as hell: “The Trump administration is preparing to designate transgender people as “violent extremists” in the wake of Charlie Kirk’s murder, two national security officials tell me.” #Kirk #USA #politics #human-rights
on 02025-09-19Holy shit, #Trump has gone too far right for the Drudge Report, which leads with a photo of Jimmy #Kimmel and the headlines “ABC MARTYR / NETWORK UNDER GOVT CONTROL / ‘VIEW’ CENSORED / TRUMP ORDERS REMAINING LATE NIGHT HOSTS REMOVED / THREATENS LICENSES”. #censorship #human-rights #politics #USA
on 02025-09-18#news #video of Robert Garcia on MSNBC talking about the #Kimmel #censorship investigation. Also CNN coverage. #human-rights #politics #USA
on 02025-09-18#news “Top Oversight Dem launches probe into ABC’s Kimmel suspension” today. Reprinting a press release: “California Rep. Robert Garcia, the top Democrat on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee, announced Thursday he is launching an investigation into ABC’s suspension of “Jimmy #Kimmel Live!” following the host’s remarks regarding the death of conservative activist Charlie Kirk.
His probe will review the Trump administration, ABC and TV station owner Sinclair amid what Garcia says are ongoing efforts to “censor opposition.”
“Every American has a duty to stand up for our First Amendment values. We will not be silent as our freedoms are threatened by corrupt schemes and threats. Anyone who is complicit will need to answer to us,” the lawmaker said in a statement.” This seems sort of like a ko threat in go: by threatening something defensible but even more damaging, #Trump can divert the opposition’s efforts from releasing the Epstein files. #USA #politics #human-rights #censorship
on 02025-09-18#CNN #news #video describing the cancelation of #Kimmel as part of #Trump’s “crackdown on dissent”. #USA #politics #human-rights #censorship
on 02025-09-18#news #video saying Jimmy Kimmel’s nightly comedy show is being pulled off the air indefinitely because of “Charlie #Kirk remarks,” specifically because #Kimmel initially claimed that Tyler Robinson was a MAGA Republican. The FCC chairman Brendan Carr threatened Disney and ABC with retaliation on a “far-right webcast” or “podcast”, which apparently is “X/Benny Johnson”. #human-rights #censorship #USA #politics
on 02025-09-17South #Korea to probe possible #human-rights abuses in #USA raid. “ICE officials said the South Koreans had overstayed their visas or were not permitted to work in the US.
A South Korean worker who witnessed the raid told the BBC of panic and confusion as federal agents descended on the site, with some people being led away in chains.” #immigration #politics
on 02025-09-16#Indonesia is “in chaos” and just blocked access to Twitter and Discord and #VPN providers. One recommendation if you have a server overseas is to use #Wireguard with #wstunnel to avoid the sort of protocol blocking that, for example, Uzbekistan applies. #politics #news #censorship #privacy #human-rights
on 02025-08-28#UK #news: #facial-recognition vans with #neural-networks to search for, supposedly, sex criminals. #human-rights #privacy
on 02025-08-13“Police in #Spain have reportedly started profiling people based on their phones; specifically, and surprisingly, those carrying Google Pixel devices. Law enforcement officials in Catalonia say they associate Pixels with crime because drug traffickers are increasingly turning to these phones. But it’s not Google’s secure Titan M2 chip that has criminals favoring the Pixel — instead, it’s #GrapheneOS, a privacy-focused alternative to the default Pixel OS.” #privacy #human-rights #security
on 02025-07-23“Sir Keir Starmer’s government is seeking a way out of a clash with the #Trump administration over the #UK’s demand that #Apple provide it with access to secure customer data, two senior British officials have told the Financial Times.
The officials both said the Home Office, which ordered the tech giant in January to grant access to its most secure cloud storage system, would probably have to retreat in the face of pressure from senior leaders in Washington, including Vice President JD #Vance. (...) US Director of National Intelligence Tulsi #Gabbard has also suggested the order would be an “egregious violation” of Americans’ privacy that risked breaching the two countries’ data agreement.” #privacy #human-rights #USA #politics
on 02025-07-21#news photo and video of the extrajudicial summary execution of Nguyễn Văn Lém in the #Vietnam war. #history #human-rights
on 02025-06-05#humor #news #video chronicling #Trump’s crackdown on freedom of speech and journalism. #human-rights #politics #USA
on 02025-05-19“Ras Baraka, the mayor of Newark, New Jersey, was arrested Friday as he protested at a controversial private detention facility that is expected to play a key role in President Donald #Trump’s plans for mass #deportation of immigrants. (...) Baraka has criticized GEO Group for refusing to allow city inspectors inside and has made his standoff with the company a focal point in his campaign for governor.” #politics #USA #human-rights
on 02025-05-09#news #video about #human-rights in #USA under #Trump including his attacks on #Harvard and the court rulings against #deportations
on 02025-05-04#human-rights #news #video on #Trump #deportations; Mohsen Mahdawi has been released on bail. #Interview with Farber.
on 02025-05-03"He Was My Brother" was written in 01963 and then rededicated to Andrew Goodman, who was lynched for being a Freedom Rider in 01964. #history #politics #human-rights #USA #human-rights
on 02025-04-30"He Was My Brother" was written in 01963 and then rededicated to Andrew Goodman, who was lynched for being a Freedom Rider in 01964. #history #politics #human-rights #USA #human-rights
on 02025-04-30#news #video #interview with AG Pam Bondi on the FBI arresting Milwaukee county judge Hannah #Dugan. #human-rights
on 02025-04-25#news #video on the FBI arresting Milwaukee county judge Hannah #Dugan. #human-rights
on 02025-04-25#news #humor #video mentioning 60 Minutes executive producer Bill Owens resigned over threats to their journalistic independence. #human-rights #politics
on 02025-04-23#news #interview with Kilmar #Abrego’s wife Jennifer Vasquez Sura. #deportations #human-rights
on 02025-04-17#news #interview with Larry Summers on #Harvard: “For the President of the United States to be calling for changing the tax status of his adversaries, this is new, and, I believe, authoritarian, and a real question about our democracy.” #human-rights
on 02025-04-17#news on #Trump #deportations in defiance of Boasberg’s court order. #human-rights
on 02025-04-17#news on #Trump’s IRS considering revoking #Harvard’s tax-exempt status. Also #Abrego #deportations. #USA #politics #human-rights
on 02025-04-17#news: #El-Salvador blocks #USA senator Chris van Hollen from visiting Kilmar Armando #Abrego García after #Trump #deportations to #CECOT #human-rights
on 02025-04-17#news current state of #Trump deportation of Kilmar Armando #Abrego García, who is not from #Venezuela, to #El-Salvador #CECOT #deportations #human-rights
on 02025-04-17#video #news Reva Goujon says, “China is doing some interesting things in its implementing its provisions for the anti-foreign-sanctions law, it’s talking about countermeasures that include suspending IP rights for US companies in #China. That’s explosive.” #USA #politics #human-rights #copyright
on 02025-04-09#USA #human-rights #Trump #politics
on 02025-04-02#news #video with footage from Rep. Hank Johnson reading a prepared statement in a #USA Congressional House Judiciary Committee hearing about #politics and #Trump’s attacks on #human-rights
on 02025-04-01#video #news on Wilson Martel Lebron, who was deported in the middle of his trial; the Massachusetts judge dismissed the case with prejudice and ruled the prosecutor in contempt of court because he aided in “a case of obstruction of justice, a case of violating the defendant’s right to be present at trial and confront the witnesses against him.” #USA #politics #human-rights #deportations
on 02025-04-01#news #video from #Fox-News saying Maryland father Kilmar Armando #Abrego García was arrested in 02019 “in the company of other ranking gang members and was confirmed to be a ranking gang member of the MS-13 gang by a proven and reliable source,” according to the DHS’s assertions. #USA #politics #human-rights #deportations
on 02025-04-01#news #video saying #Trump administration is admitting one Maryland father, granted protected status in 02019, was mistakenly included in the #deportations to #El-Salvador due to an “administrative error”, but can’t be brought back. #USA #politics #human-rights
on 02025-04-01#news on #Trump #deportations to #CECOT in #El-Salvador: the names of the 238 detainees, disclosed on March 20. They’re still being held incommunicado. #human-rights #politics
on 02025-03-28this singer from #Venezuela has a YouTube channel; he’s one of the victims of #Trump #deportations to #CECOT in #El-Salvador because he has tattoos. #politics #human-rights
on 02025-03-28MSNBC relays Mother Jones’s #journalism on the tattoo-based #Trump #deportations #news to #CECOT in #El-Salvador for people from #Venezuela #politics #human-rights
on 02025-03-28#news on #Trump #deportations to #CECOT in #El-Salvador: immigrants from #Venezuela get snatched off the street because they have tattoos, for example, an #autism awareness tattoo. Apparently all of the families whose members have been disappeared report that they are being held incommunicado and that they have tattoos. #politics #human-rights
on 02025-03-28#Turkish state TV TRT #video about fairly mild #human-rights abuses by the government of #Israel against an Australian tourist, Anastasia. #politics
on 02025-03-25#human-rights #USA #politics #Nevada court decision against giving (Stephen Lara’s) asset-forfeiture loot to the DEA
on 02025-01-15#news #video about how #Milei (or rather his political ally Jorge Macri) is instituting a US-like policy of sending the police to beat up homeless people and stealing their possessions. Currently there are supposedly 4400 homeless people in Buenos Aires (presumably this means the city), 10% more than last year and 2.5× as many as five years ago. #politics #human-rights #Argentina
on 02024-12-17#USA appeals court overturns #OFAC sanctions against #cryptocurrency anonymizer "Tornado Cash" #human-rights #anonymity
on 02024-11-26incoming border czar Tom Homan plans “shock and awe” assault on immigrants on day 1 of #Trump regime, using the military but, thanks to the Posse Comitatus act, not for arrests. #USA #politics #human-rights
on 02024-11-20More about #Canada #politics #history on the #Freedom-Convoy: “In pursuing this novel form of politically motivated financial censorship, Prime Minister Trudeau was following in the footsteps of Russian President Vladmir Putin, who in 2019 ordered his government to freeze bank accounts linked to opposition politician Alexei Navalny.” #human-rights
on 02024-11-06truckers’ protest (#Freedom-Convoy) #Canada #politics #history: “In freezing the bank accounts of Freedom Convoy protesters, Finance Canada bureaucrats said they did not intend to hurt protesters’ families’ ability to buy groceries or pay child support, though they admitted that may have ultimately happened, the Emergencies Act inquiry heard Thursday. (...) Two weeks ago, some Freedom Convoy organizers testified their spouses were cut off from their money and couldn’t make vehicle payments or purchase groceries and medication because joint bank accounts were frozen.” #human-rights
on 02024-11-06A two-year retrospective on the truckers’ protest ("Freedom Convoy") and the #history of #politics in #Canada #human-rights
on 02024-11-06#News #video from #Al-Jazeera about #Facebook #censorship on #Israel, quoting Human Rights Watch, and also interviewing two ex-Facebook workers fired for their Palestinian advocacy (Saima Akhter and one other), as well as Palestinian photojournalist Motaz Azaiza, who says 40% of his #Instagram posts since October 02023 had been censored. Mostly #interview and stock footage. #human-rights
on 02024-10-20people in #USA are getting their Teslas towed so the police can confiscate the built-in camera footage. “Tesla drivers, by contrast, get served individually because they control their own camera footage.” #privacy #security #human-rights
on 02024-09-27#Pygmies were subjected to #cannibalism during the #Congo civil war. #human-rights #genocide
on 02024-09-11#EU withdraws #Chat-Control #censorship proposal. #human-rights #politics
on 02024-06-20#Signal will leave the #EU if the #Chat-Control #censorship regime does go into effect. #politics #human-rights
on 02024-06-16#human-rights #comic rebutting the XKCD against freedom of speech with quotes from liberal thinkers
on 02024-06-16#EU #Chat-Control #censorship regime to go into effect on Wednesday. #politics #human-rights
on 02024-06-16“#Gitee, #China’s answer to GitHub, to review all code by temporarily closing open-source projects to the public” #censorship #politics #human-rights
on 02022-05-21the Minnesota Board of Engineering Licensure is censuring "Strong Towns" founder Charles Marohn for criticizing engineering. #human-rights
on 02021-05-29Evan Brown lost his bid for a jury trial to keep DSC from enslaving him as their #intellectual-property. #human-rights
on 02021-01-15Evan Brown was the #intellectual-property of Alcatel (which bought DSC). #human-rights
on 02021-01-15#India’s Supreme Court establishes a legal right to #privacy in a decision against Modi’s #Aadhaar program, overruling the 1961 Kharak Singh verdict. #human-rights
on 02017-08-27#Cambridge University Press #China Quarterly submits to #censorship by China. #politics #human-rights
on 02017-08-22“What #Antifa and #Juggalos have in common in this strange new world” #USA #politics #human-rights
on 02017-08-22#Juggalos march for #human-rights. #USA #politics
on 02017-08-22#PDF #ebook of 113 pages on #decentralization for #human-rights, covering #Mastodon, #IPFS, and others, though not Scuttlebutt. #toread
on 02017-08-22NASA scientist "Serkan Golge" still in jail a year after being accused of supporting the #Turkey #coup. #human-rights
on 02017-08-06#China mandates installation of #censorship #malware "Jingwang" on everyone’s #cellphone in #Xinjiang using police checkpoints. #human-rights
on 02017-08-06#Russia bans proxies, VPNs, Tor, and chats that don’t use phone numbers. #censorship #human-rights #politics
on 02017-07-30#Apple #censorship of VPN apps due to #China policy against freedom of speech. #politics #human-rights
on 02017-07-29#Censorship in #China will now remove videos “promoting” “abnormal sexual behaviors” including #LGBT. #human-rights
on 02017-07-11annotated #video segments from the #USA attack on Kurdish protestors by #Turkey during #Erdoǧan’s visit. #human-rights #politics
on 02017-05-26freedom of speech, Nazis, #human-rights, and #USA #politics. “The humanity that will be deciding whom to punch and whom to prosecute is the same humanity that produced the Nazis in the first place, and has a well-established record of making really terrible decisions.”
on 02017-05-19Desiree Fairooz convicted of laughing at Jeff Sessions; could face a year in prison. #USA #politics #human-rights
on 02017-05-0361-year-old Desiree Fairooz (@desireefairooz), Code Pink activist, arrested and prosecuted for laughing at Jeff Sessions’s confirmation. #USA #politics #human-rights
on 02017-05-02#USA #privacy #human-rights case of #Francis-Rawls continues; he remains jailed for contempt of court for saying he doesn’t remember the #crypto keys to his disks
on 02017-04-30pig brain particulates caused chronic illness. #public-health #human-rights
on 02017-04-13Francis Rawls has been imprisoned for 16 months because he says he forgot the passwords to decrypt his FileVault hard disk, which the police suspect contains child pornography. #human-rights
on 02017-03-11Biddle’s #Palantir article on #Thiel and #USA spying. #privacy #human-rights
on 02017-03-11discussion of how cash doesn’t actually protect #human-rights
on 02017-03-03cash protects #human-rights
on 02017-03-03“Woman deported from #England despite being married to Briton for 27 years” #immigration #human-rights
on 02017-03-03Argentine Juan Garcia Mosqueda, “founder of the New York design gallery Chamber” and “a legal US resident for the last 10 years”, has been prohibited entry to #USA. #politics #human-rights #immigration
on 02017-03-07discussion thread about #human-rights at border crossings as US-born NASA scientist Sidd Bikkannavar was compelled to unlock his NASA phone by #USA CBP. #politics
on 02017-02-23#Trump #Muslim-ban #politics #human-rights #USA
on 02017-01-30US CBP agents obey #Trump and defy #USA courts to enforce the #Muslim-ban. #politics #human-rights #bigotry
on 02017-01-30federal judge sends #USA marshals to prevent #Trump from enforcing the #Muslim-ban. #politics #human-rights #bigotry
on 02017-01-30“#Trump’s temporary immigration ban set a mental anchor in your brain that is frankly shocking. It will make his eventual permanent immigration plan (”extreme vetting”) look tame by comparison.” Also mentions ISIS bomb drones. #USA #politics #human-rights #bigotry #Muslim-ban
on 02017-01-30#Sweden’s citizens largely support its espionage at the behest of the NSA. #politics #human-rights
on 02017-01-14Kamala Harris and Ken Paxton brought an unconstitutional #prostitution lawsuit against Backpage in order to get her elected to the US Senate. #politics #human-rights #censorship
on 02017-01-05#Facebook #censorship of medical safety information about breast-cancer checks. #human-rights
on 02017-01-05An article on visiting #Alaa Abd El-Fattah in a newly built maximum-security prison in #Sisi’s #Egypt prison complex by his cousin Omar Robert Hamilton; he has arrested some 60,000 political dissidents in addition to the previously-imprisoned 62,000 total prisoners. Prisoners’ families are responsible for feeding them. #human-rights
on 02016-11-21Snapshot of the #Turkey internet cut during the #Turkish-coup. #human-rights
on 02016-11-21The Portland (Oregon) police attacking freedom of association yesterday: “Those not wanting to be associated w/anarchists should leave the area immediately. Peaceful protesters encouraged to go to Pioneer Square.” #USA #politics #human-rights
on 02016-11-11Gingrich wants #Trump to set up a new McCarthy-style committee. Literally, by name, in quotes. #USA #politics #human-rights
on 02016-11-11Donald Trump’s first post-election tweet attacks freedom of the press and freedom of assembly: “Just had a very open and successful presidential election. Now professional protesters, incited by the media, are protesting. Very unfair!” #USA #politics #human-rights
on 02016-11-11On freedom of speech, #censorship, #Wikileaks, and #USA #law. #human-rights
on 02016-10-17#EU propose requiring prior restraint of speech to enforce #copyright on any user-generated content platform such as Facebook or YouTube. #human-rights
on 02016-10-14The Committee to Protect Journalists says #Trump is a threat to freedom of speech. #censorship #human-rights #politics #USA
on 02016-10-14#prostitution #human-rights #ACLU
on 02016-10-14#audio of #weev advocating #white-supremacist warfare with #drones on 2015-09-25 #weaponry #human-rights #USA #politics
on 02016-10-11#Facebook #censorship of the #USA Dakota Access protest livestreams. #human-rights
on 02016-10-06The government has a list of the 250k people in #Turkey who installed the supposedly secure communication app "Bylock" and has arrested 53k of them. #human-rights #free-speech
on 02016-10-061.5 million, not 15 million, cameras #DDoS Brian Krebs’s web site. #security #censorship #human-rights
on 02016-10-02“Twitter told me that it will block my account at the request of Turkey for “instigating terrorism,” putting an end to my ~7-year reporting,” says journalist Mahir Zeynalov. #Twitter #censorship #human-rights #Turkey
on 02016-09-26#daesh #breastfeeding #human-rights
on 02016-09-23#Argentina Police are raiding public buses in Florencio Varela and Quilmes, forcing all of the passengers to show them their papers and belongings. #human-rights
on 02016-08-12according to #USA federal prosecutors, retweets are endorsement of #terrorism. #free-speech #human-rights
on 02016-08-12internet #censorship #human-rights #politics #Wikileaks. Also Jaron Lanier being a jackass again.
on 02016-08-01How #police get stressed and snap and violate #human-rights
on 02016-07-11Chris LeDay, the guy who posted the video of the #Alton-Sterling #extrajudicial-execution in Baton Rouge, just got arrested for an assault and battery charge in a place he says he’s never heard of, and then the charges were changed to unpaid traffic tickets. #human-rights
on 02016-07-11The Ninth Circuit #CFAA decision in US v. Nosal means that sharing passwords can send you to jail, as in The Right To Read. #human-rights
on 02016-07-11#Facebook #censorship of #marijuana #journalism impairs #human-rights. “Your ad wasn’t approved because the body/title text used in the ad promotes the use or sale of illegal #drugs.”
on 02016-07-11legislators in #Egypt (under #Sisi) outraged by the #Alton-Sterling and #Philando-Castile murders; Margaret Azer says the US “was caught red-handed violating #human-rights and crushingthe peaceful protests of black Americans in the city of Dallas and other U.S. cities.”
on 02016-07-11“Warning: #Pokemon GO is a Death Sentence if you are a Black Man.” #racism #human-rights
on 02016-07-11A black cop talks about #racism and #police and #human-rights. #toread because I couldn’t get through it today
on 02016-07-07#Apple #censorship #patents dramatized as plans for “the new iPhone” #sousveillance #human-rights #phone
on 02016-07-07Washington Post on the #Philando-Castile #Minneapolis #police #extrajudicial-execution; he was pulled over for a broken taillight on his way home from the grocery store. #human-rights #death
on 02016-07-07#Facebook exercised #censorship against the video of the #Philando-Castile #Minneapolis #extrajudicial-execution, temporarily deleting the video and the entire account of his girlfriend, who filmed the #police killing him as his four-year-old daughter was in the back seat. “It’s okay mommy. It’s okay, I’m right here with you,” said the four-year-old. “We’re very sorry that the video was temporarily inaccessible. It was down due to a technical glitch and restored as soon as we were able to investigate,” a Facebook spokesperson said. #human-rights #right-to-record #death
on 02016-07-07Ramsey Orta, who filmed the #Eric-Garner #extrajudicial-execution by Daniel Pantaleo, is going to prison for four years after a series of arrests. #human-rights #sousveillance #right-to-record #police #death
on 02016-07-07The #Alton-Sterling #extrajudicial-execution article in the WaPo. #human-rights #police #death
on 02016-07-06Current news about #security, #human-rights, and #cryptography, from Riana
on 02016-07-06"Bloody Harvest": #pdf report investigating the allegations of executions for organ transplants. “Hospitals throughout #China told the callers, in calls which were taped, transcribed and translated, that they had organs of #Falun-Gong practitioners for sale.” #human-rights
on 02016-07-01#DigitalOcean took down surge.sh in response to an illegal DMCA takedown request from the NRA, taking down 38000 web sites. A good example of how privatized #censorship limits #human-rights. As Parker Higgins explains, “Surge hosts user-generated web projects. The NRA took issue with one of them and sent a takedown to its host’s host’s host.”
on 02016-06-29Jillian York’s article about #Facebook #censorship and #outing. #human-rights
on 02016-06-29In 2014, the #XKEYSCORE code was published, including their list of “extremist forums”, which apparently includes #Linux Journal. #security #privacy #human-rights #NSA
on 02016-06-26Write a poem in #Israel urging Palestinians to struggle, go to jail. #human-rights
on 02016-06-22Mauricio #Macri is giving the military of #Argentina more autonomy from civilian oversight; #human-rights organizations protest. #politics
on 02016-06-01Viktor Krasnov is being prosecuted for “insulting the feelings of religious believers” by writing that “there is no God” and “the Bible is complete bullshit”. #human-rights
on 02016-03-03“The #call-out culture prevalent online is something that does solidly contribute to the oppression of some of the most marginalized members of our community by privileging access to the most up-to-date theoretical work around what it means to be trans over actual #trans experiences.” #human-rights #public-shaming
on 02016-03-03unmarried women in a couple of villages in #Gujarat, #India are banned from using cellphones. #human-rights #feminism
on 02016-03-03Michael Hayden opposes FBI director Comey’s position? #toread #politics #human-rights #crypto
on 02016-02-25Donald Trump takes the side of the FBI in the #crypto #human-rights issue with Apple: “I use both iPhone & Samsung. If Apple doesn’t give info to authorities on the terrorists I’ll only be using Samsung until they give info.”
on 02016-02-19Thoughtful post on the #crypto #human-rights issue with Apple.
on 02016-02-19Holy shit, the New York Times Editorial Board is going cypherpunk in defending Apple’s right to not crack Farook’s iPhone. #human-rights
on 02016-02-18Apple opposes building a backdoored build of the iOS operating system to unlock the San Bernardino shooter’s iPhone. #crypto #human-rights
on 02016-02-17#Telegram is unblocked in #Iran, and authorities there frequently violate the #human-rights of arrested journalists by taking their devices and accessing their accounts.
on 02016-02-11information about rape victims’ legal protections in #Argentina #humanrights
on 02016-02-05Hugo Campos got access to his own pacemaker and the data it produces. #humanrights
on 02016-02-02police attacked a dance rehearsal in a slum (Villa 1-11-14) with rubber bullets, injuring a bit over a dozen people, including this young woman, Flopy (Florencia) Torres, whose #human-rights need to be protected regardless of whether or not she knows how to use punctuation. Two police were also injured. #argentina
on 02016-02-01On #human-rights and #MLK and the #NSA.
on 02016-01-18as of 2016-01-04, the Sexual and Reproductive Health Program (“Programa de Salud Sexual y Reproductiva de la Nación”) in #Argentina has been suspended by means of Executive Order (“Decreto”) 114/2016 by just-elected president #Macri, according to the Feminist Front of #Human-Rights Defenders (“Frente Feminista de Defensores de los DDHH”).
on 02016-01-13Tim Cook from #Apple fighting for #crypto #human-rights.
on 02016-01-13on the East German prison system and its quarter-million political prisoners #human-rights
on 02016-01-13Victor Hugo Morales, a well-known radio personality in #Argentina, has been fired from his popular radio show on Continental Radio. He says he’s being censored because he’s not in favor of Macri, the new president, who he says is “just a mask” for Clarín Group, which has now taken over the country. There’s a SoundCloud link to the talk he gave today on another radio station. (Listening to it, I can’t understand how people could stand to listen to his show.) #human-rights
on 02016-01-11on #privacy and #human-rights, with history on J. Edgar Hoover and Dick Nixon.
on 02016-01-11Famous linguist John McWhorter reflects on current #social-justice and #human-rights issues on US college campuses with reference to his experience as a black student in the 1960s.
on 02015-11-28Jennifer #Granick’s keynote on #human-rights on the internet.
on 02015-11-22Meredith Patterson on #human-rights, #free-speech, and #key-escrow.
on 02015-11-21The racist Executive Director of “Columbia Dining” at Columbia University banned speaking Spanish on the job. #free-speech #human-rights
on 02015-11-19workers’ #human-rights are not being protected, and “Libertarians” don’t care. Perfect rebuttal of Libertarian dogmas: “Libertarians claim that freedom is their core value and that it’s maximized when the state refrains from interfering in the private choices of individuals. They also believe, however—as every sensible person should—that individual freedom can be curtailed by private action. In fact, the idea that private action can diminish individual freedom is central to their justification for the state, which is that some state coercion is required to stop people from dominating, enslaving, and generally harming others. We all do better on the metric of freedom, libertarians agree, if the state makes and enforces “traffic rules” for private persons.” #politics #philosophy #ethics
on 02015-11-19William #Binney gives an #interview about the #NSA and #humanrights.
on 02015-11-11reflection on the #humanrights situation in #Argentina with respect to #immigration and our Law 28.571.
on 02015-09-01The US State Department's report on Argentina's #humanrights situation.
on 02015-08-30In Argentina we have 64 288 people imprisoned, 154 per 100k population, of which half are pre-trial detainees. #human-rights
on 02015-08-30The Seychelles actually imprisons a larger fraction of their population than the US does now. #human-rights
on 02015-08-30#Microsoft Windows 10 sends parents a weekly activity report on their kids’ computer use. #privacy #humanrights
on 02015-08-10When #Ai Weiwei got together with Jacob #Appelbaum in Beijing. “Sure, they have mobile death vans that harvest people’s organs, but they’re not overtly restrictive.” #humanrights
on 02015-08-10Jacques Mattheij (#jacquesm) on the end of internet freedom #humanrights
on 02015-08-05Jennifer Granick declaiming that the dream of internet freedom is dying. #humanrights
on 02015-08-05#humanrights #privacy a 42-year-old police computer investigator used the police systems to identify vulnerable women to seduce
on 02015-08-05Hacking Team #humanrights abuses #politics
on 02015-08-05