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“Alleged Chinese Surveillance Operation Targeted U.S. Figure Skater Alysa Liu and Her Father 📰 Original title: The Weird, Twisting Tale of How China Spied on Alysa Liu and Her Dad 🤖 IA: It's clickbait ⚠️
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“US Visa Applicants Ordered to Make All Social Media Accounts Public or Risk Delays and Denial https://www. ibtimes.co.uk/us-visa-social-m edia-public-requirement-1792727 # privacy # surveillance # dystopia...”

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@Gardenia @deuza42 @daliarezk @gomli @gazaverified Solène, a few points:

1. This isn’t about you, it’s about our friends in Gaza.

2. Our friends in Gaza are adults like us who can make their own decisions about things like whether they show their faces or share their photos on Mastodon, just like we do.

3. We can inform our friends in Gaza about privacy issues but we cannot tell them to do anything. We are not their parents. And they are not children. That’s a very paternalistic and, dare I say, colonial view.

4. By making it appear that they shouldn’t be sharing any photos of themselves, etc., there’s a very real danger of getting them to auto-erase themselves online while Israel is already trying to do that. There is a balance here that I believe you are missing. Their survival also depends on making genuine connections with people in the outside world. Your constant attempts to get them to stop sharing photos of their lives and experiences is pushing them to use AI-generated images, for example, which is making their accounts look like scammers. They are starting to make their accounts and posts look inauthentic, and helping contribute to their erasure. Which is what the Zionists want.

5. Our friends in Palestine have been living their entire lives under surveillance and know the risks better than we do. Privacy is about threat models. It’s an area I know a thing or two about myself having worked for a third of my life in it. Your efforts, while well meaning, are having a negative effect. Not least of all on our tiny team of volunteers whose limited time is spent dealing with your constant displeasure instead of helping our friends in Gaza.

Personally, I will be muting you as I do not have the time to function as your personal support department. We will also make it very clear that no one has the right to dictate how our Palestinian friends use Mastodon or the fediverse and that any advice is just that: advice.

And for anyone from the West reading this, please be careful not paternalise our friends in Gaza.

We do not know better than they do and we do not have the right to dictate a separate set of rules for them. We can advise them of existing rules and norms if violating them can have a negative impact on them and their accounts and we can try and help if they are persecuted for who they are but we do not get to tell them how to use Mastodon or the fediverse any more than we get to tell anyone from the West.

Gaza Verified simply verifies, via video calls where one of our volunteers from Gaza is present, that they are Palestinian from Gaza. And, if their account is limited or suspended for who they are, we will advocate on their behalf or help them move to a server that isn’t complicit in genocide. That’s it. That’s all we can do with a tiny team of volunteers. Verification is not a character reference. We are not their parents. And it is not our job, or anyone else’s, to tell them how they should be using Mastodon or the fediverse.

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“Wired: Tech CEOs Think AI Will Let Them Be Everywhere at Once https://www. wired.com/story/tech-ceos-usin g-ai-to-be-everywhere-at-once/ Prego Has a Dinner-Conversation-Recording Device, Capisce? https://www. ...”

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@deborahh
The lack of an algorithm does however mean that one has to spend a little effort to curate a relevant timeline.

Most starters will need a little help when they set up an account on the #fediverse as some people expect the instance to just 'magically' compose a timeline without providing it with any input. Once people see that they have total control over their timeline they really start to fully value the absence of an algorithm.
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“VPN ≠ Force Field. 🛡️❌ It's a tunnel. Build it wrong, and you're exposed. New Big Fan episode is LIVE: The VPN Reality Check
🔹 Proton vs. Mullvad vs. Nord
🔹 6 config steps you might be missing Listen now: Impracti...”

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“https://www. europesays.com/uk/906763/ Bristol Uni pays private security firm to ‘spy’ on student protests # Bristol # Britain # England # GreatBritain # palestine # protests # Students # Surve...”

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“'In case you haven't gotten around to reading # Palantir CEO # alexKarp and nicholas w. zamiska's 2025 book, The Technological Republic, (because why would you do that to yourself?), the company best known for supp...”

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“# Windows # keylogger # Windows11 # tech # surveillance https:// m.youtube.com/shorts/SFFH_H5O8 C4”

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Apparently mastodon.social is undergoing a massive #DDoS that brought it down, which may or may not be related to the disservice experienced by #BlueSky last week. Of course, this being the #Fediverse, the only measurable effect for the majority of Fedizens will be some reduction of traffic on their timelines, depending on which fraction of their followings are on that instance.

And this is why #ActivityPub, with all its deficiencies, is still better than #ATProto.

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“Keep Pushing: We Get 10 More Days to Reform # Section702 https://www. eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/keep -pushing-we-get-10-more-days-reform-section-702 # privacy # surveillance # NSA # FISA”

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“These paranoid fascists will not stop until they rule the world.
RE A.I. weapons: "They will be built."
RE cities' autonomy: "Silicon Valley must play a role in addressing violent crime."
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““Security Has a Beef With Photography” The Latina in the safety vest had a beef with me. The company had surveilled me on camera. “What are you doing here,” she asked, right in front of the Visitor Center. I replied tha...”

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“https:// itsfoss.com/opinion/age-verifi cation-tobacco-moment/ A landmark U.S. verdict framing social media as a harmful “product” could reshape regulation, but the response may miss the mark. Instead of directly ...”

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“# Republican Mutiny Sinks # Trump 's Push to Extend Warrantless # Surveillance https://www. wired.com/story/republican-mut iny-sinks-trumps-push-to-extend-warrantless-surveillance/ # Section702 # FISA ...”

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“Flock cameras are increasingly visible, capturing license plates and potentially sharing data with ICE for targeted immigration operations. Nick Valencia highlights their presence in neighborhoods and use by Walmart to d...”

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“Old # Cars 'Tell Tales' by Storing Data That's Never Wiped
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“KYC is security theater for the digital age. It creates a dragnet for ordinary users while those moving real money find the obvious workarounds. It's a compliance tax on being legitimate. # Privacy # Fintech # Sur...”

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“Kelowna RCMP's new security camera network linked to businesses must be monitored: privacy watchdog
Kelowna businesses are being invited to register their security cameras so that police have a straightforward way of re...”

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“https://www. europesays.com/people/31675/ Online age checks are coming in Europe – POLITICO # Banks # Cyprus # Data # Denmark # EmmanuelMacron # France # greece # Ireland # Italy # KeirSt...”

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“This is the discussion that should be happening everywhere AND governments should be putting the onus on # BigTech rather than # surveillance of kids and other users. https://www. cbc.ca/news/canada/north/digit ...”

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“Online age checks are coming in Europe – POLITICO Gaining momentum Von der Leyen’s announcement — although technical — is indicative of the huge momentum behind social…
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“Privacy watchdog says Kelowna's new security camera network must be monitored
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“It Takes 2 Minutes to Hack the EU’s New Age-Verification App Planning a big night out at Madison Square Garden? Have fun—but don’t say we didn’t warn you. A…
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“It Takes 2 Minutes to Hack the EU’s New Age-Verification App

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“Former Inuit leaders say ‘regret’ for RCMP's Indigenous surveillance program isn't enough
Former Inuit leaders say the RCMP’s statement of ‘regret’ for spying on Indigenous leaders in the 1960s and '70s isn’t enough. Th...”

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“Exposing a Global Surveillance Empire

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“EU says its age verification app is ready, letting users prove age via ID, passport, or trusted providers for online access. 📱
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I feel - if there isn't one already - there ought to be a specific #solarpunk #Fediverse server(s); imagine the solarpunk vibes of noncentralisation and connectedness reflected in a Fediverse instance(s) powered by green energy too! I guess some of us could always help create it, maybe in cahoots with @thepeoplestech?

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“FISA Section 702 reauthorization was blocked in the House. Congress passed a 10-day stopgap pushing expiry to April 30. The surveillance law enabling warrantless NSA data collection lives in legislative limbo. Privacy ge...”

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“https://www. nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews /advice-headphones-data-protection/ Modern headphones now include sensors, microphones, and AI features that go far beyond audio playback. Devices like the AirPods Pro 3 a...”

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“👏 Behold, the Citizen Lab bravely "uncovers" the shocking news that advertisers want your location 📍— groundbreaking stuff, folks! All the while, the article deftly navigates through a maze of links, proving that the r...”

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“# surveillance # privacy https://www. cnet.com/home/security/when-fl ock-comes-to-town-why-cities-are-axing-the-controversial-surveillance-technology/”

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“From the article: President Trump’s budget request to Congress contains the largest counterterrorism spending increase in years — and buried inside it is a new FBI-led center dedicated to “proactively” hunting Americans...”

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