Notices by Jim Killock (jim@social.openrightsgroup.org)

Right at the last minute the UK government have added a power to demand access to your device and extract information from any online account, on the say so of a senior police officer, in the #crimeandpolicingbill #cpbill

Really incredibly extreme stuff. No judicial oversight, just hand over your device.

BREAKING: VICTORY for @openrightsgroup BBW and @privacyint and others

The #Apple IPT case will be held in open, including the bare details of the case, so that the principles of the issue can be discussed! #e2ee #privacy

Information about the UK #cybersecurity Bill coming out today:

Missing:

* Protections for encryption
* Explicit discussion of #digitalsovereignty and the need to transition to #opensource #foss
* Safeguards against future self inflicted cybersecurity disasters through hiding vulnerabilities leading to incidents like WannaCry

@openrightsgroup will be making the case for these changes

https://www.gov.uk/government/publications/cyber-security-and-resilience-bill-policy-statement/cyber-security-and-resilience-bill-policy-statement

Just brilliant from @CCC @khaleesicodes

"CCC demands digital infrastructures that are resilient against fascism’s cravings"

https://www.ccc.de/en/updates/2025/ccc-fordert-digitale-brandmauer #antifascist #digitalrights #surveillance #privacy #mastodon

@gruff @JamesBaker @openrightsgroup This is definitely a stand from Apple. It is making the problem public: plus, to abide by the order, they would actually have to switch it off globally, which they are not doing.

Switching it off in the UK is in effect a #warrantcanary revealing they have been subject to a UK order requiring a backdoor they are refusing to comply with.

Outrageous attack on the #fediverse coming from #Ofcom who think they are just doing their best, but may inadvertently kill the fediverse for the UK.

What's a significant number of UK users? Do you need to age verify? No firm answers, no guarantees, etc etc.

https://blog.woof.group/announcements/updates-on-the-osa

I've been digging a bit on #bluesky moderation and the "firehose" approach to almagamating user posts, searchability and tagging.

On the one hand, compared to current closed models, it looks like an improvement as it opens up decision making and moderation. On the other, it looks to me at least like it is vulnerable to the same problems as all other centralised systems

Curious about the views from the #fediverse and #mastodon @pluralistic @KevinMarks

@JonGlue @davelee @pluralistic TBH I think there is less activity on Mastodon than there was in the intial phase. It is reduced but still more than it was a couple of years ago. Interaction for me comes with using hashtags mostly

On the topic of copyright, now that #1984 is in the #publicdomain (mostly, outside of the USA) ther have been some interesting reuses of the novel. Here are two I’ve noticed, the latest one turning the junk Da Vinci Code into 1984:

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2023/oct/26/david-shrigley-turns-da-vinci-code-novels-nineteen-eighty-four

and from a few weeks ago, Julia, a rewrite of the novel from the female co-protagonist’s perspective.

https://www.theguardian.com/books/2023/oct/18/julia-by-sandra-newman-review-a-new-nineteen-eighty-four

for those of you following the #IPA #TCNs debacle, in which #Apple and other companies are being threatened with a UK and potentially globally applicatible Permafrost against deployment of #E2EE, I've published ORG's draft consultation here along with links to the original and the email for the responses: https://wiki.openrightsgroup.org/wiki/IPA_notices_consultation_draft

Quick note on #threads: I am really hoping it will be easy for users to set up an account, and then port it straight out to an existing #mastodon acount.

For organisations or government bodies, this would allow them to run their own instances, and federate with systems like Threads without being their prisoner, or even without losing their initial Instagram social graph.

But the real win is still the point where Twitter might be forced to do the same.