There is no "communications network for criminals"
Communications networks are used by people.
The TOS don't have a click box that says "by using this service you are agreeing that you are a criminal"
When you compromise for the criminals, you compromise for all people.
""You had to know a criminal to get hold of one of these customised phones ... the Australian police explained."
<<< You should be reading this with extreme skepticism
What made them criminals? Had they been convicted? Then why were they being investigated?
You must simultaneously believe: anyone is a criminal who the (insert investigatory body) says is a criminal regardless of prosecution + that those people never gave a phone to a child /partner /other person in their life outside of their network of potentially criminal activity
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The Colorado Privacy Act, SB 21-190. You can find the info here, including all the previous iterations. I'll hit the high points but if you want the details you should always go straight to the text: leg.colorado.gov/bills/sb21-190.
Lots of definitions. A big one is consent. Specific, unambiguous, informed. Earlier version referenced a "narrowly defined purpose" which was removed before the final. NOT consent: broad policies, exiting a window, agreement through dark patterns (defined elsewhere)
Dark patterns - UI "designed or manipulated with the substantial effect of subverting or impairing user autonomy, decision making, or choice"
Also "Decisions that Produce Legal or Similarly Significant Effects Concerning a Consumer" may be longest term of art ever
This Clegg piece is getting passed around a lot and I have thoughts about some of the things it says, which I'll provide here in a thread, featuring and responding to 10 pieces of the write-up. The following represents my personal thoughts and opinions. Sorry in advance. 1/
It starts with this recognition of the benefits of targeted advertising for the world. We know this argument - I've even made this argument before, and I referenced it recently around how tech has traditionally been built up around a call of being good for humanity 2/
But, as with many things, I've seen more and changed my mind. First, this isn't just "targeting," it's micro-targeting. The marginal benefits that people receive from micro-targeted ads are not worth the potential harm of those ads, how they can distort perception of the world 3/
I'm so old I remember when experts were saying we need more encryption to address the current cybersecurity threats. lawfareblog.com/most-email-isn…
You know, last week.
Lest we forget, the UK already has draconian anti-encryption provisions in its law, as well as authorization for "bulk hacking," two words which never cease to send chills down my spine.
The case for encouraging greater development and use for encryption has been well-documented, and has only grown stronger over the years. You can see the history at encryptioncompendium.org
The Crypto Colloquium was a multi-stakeholder dialogue that measured consensus on the topic of encryption and flagged important questions that need to be answered by any proposal accessnow.org/cms/assets/upl…
A lot of people will spend time today talking about all the ways to help LE investigations w/o undermining encryption.
But there's some vital subtext here that I'm going to go ahead and make text.
If LE (mostly FBI) stopped making a fuss about encryption, there would actually be time, energy, and resources to discuss these other pieces of the puzzle.
I haven't spoken about encryption once in the last many years where I haven't asked, nay begged, to put this conversation to rest so we could move on to more pressing matters that could actually make an impact without corroding human rights AND digital security
A few observations about the app in this Wired Story> "To keep women safe, the creator of a sex party empire wants to track who, how and where we date" wired.co.uk/article/safeda…
The main page of the app advertises, "SafeDate automatically makes sure your friends have got your back. Securely and privately. Just in case." yoursafedate.com
The app has no privacy policy. At least not one on their website. Their terms mentions a privacy policy by there is no active link. yoursafedate.com/terms-and-cond…