4/ Steve Jobs said death is the best invention of life. It clears out the old to make way for the new.
Digital ID is an attempt to make certain companies exempt from it.
Part 1 of our four-part series on what is actually at stake:
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3/ These men did not build the internet. They built businesses on top of what others built and gave away.
And now — as Windows loses relevance, Oracle loses ground to open source, and Facebook loses the young — they want to know who you are before you access it.
2/ Then came Bill Gates — who bought an OS someone else wrote for $50,000, concealed who the customer was, and built an empire on it.
Larry Ellison — who read an IBM research paper and charged the world to use it.
Mark Zuckerberg — who settled a lawsuit for $65 million.
The internet was not invented by a corporation.
It was built by people who gave it away. No patents. No royalties. No conditions.
Then came the enclosers. 🧵
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“The answer isn’t to try to take a dictator and make them a better dictator, right? We’ve got these social media dictators,” EFF’s Cindy Cohn said on @thedailyshow.com. “The answer is to get rid of the dictators and make them less important.”
Thank you so much @nationaltrust.org.uk for standing against this. It is such an ill conceived idea, we need to protect the natural beauty of our country
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"Hey Alexa, are you recording this?"
Yes, the answer is yes. Amazon is killing its “Do Not Send Voice Recordings” privacy feature on March 28 as the company aims to bolster Alexa+, its new subscription assistant.
They're called public records for a reason. Starting today, WIRED will *stop paywalling* articles that are primarily based on public records obtained through the Freedom of Information Act, becoming the first publication to partner with
@freedom.press to offer this for our new coverage.
End-to-end encryption just survived a major attack in France. This isn’t just a local victory–it’s a global message: Privacy and security are not negotiable.
🚨 BREAKING 🚨
ORG, Big Brother Watch and @indexoncensorship.org call for the secret Tribunal into the Home Office's encryption-breaching order against Apple to be held in PUBLIC 🧑⚖️
The privacy and security of millions is on the line!
Read our joint letter ⬇️
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We are deeply saddened to hear of the passing of Mark Klein. In 2006, Mark showed up at EFF’s front door with a simple question: “Do you folks care about privacy?” We did. And what Mark told us changed everything.
Portuguese editorial cartoonist Zez Vaz reaches back to Tiananmen Square to call on American defiance.
The irony of the richest man in the world almost single-handedly destroying an agency designed to help the world’s poor, so that the U.S. federal budget has more room for another giant tax cut for the richest man in the world and his pals, should not be lost on anyone. [Cartoon by Mike Luckovich]
Tree #2🎄🧑🎄🎅🏻
Draw the line at Hawaiian shirts though 😝
Tell me about it, there’s a mountain out the apparently
That looks great, we’ve ours up too
