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🚨 In a new @amnesty report, an ex-security agent exposes how Morocco’s surveillance system works, explaining how journalists & activists are targeted in operations designed to instill fear & ultimately silence & stop them from doing their work.
amnesty.org/en/latest/news/2…
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🇪🇺⏳ #ChatControl countdown:
Pick up the phone before 6 PM! 📞 MEPs must not accept "search plans" & mass scanning in tonight's trilogue.
📲 MEP phone numbers: fightchatcontrol.eu/#delegat…
📄 Press release & info: patrick-breyer.de/en/eu-chat…
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A year ago we launched Signal Secure Backups.
Now, we’re happy to share all of the additions and improvements we’ve made to backups since then: On-device backups, cross-platform support, storage optimization, and attachment backfill for linked devices.
signal.org/blog/backup-impro…
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We're always looking for more great people to join our team. Check out two new opportunities: torproject.org/about/jobs/
🎨 UX Lead: guide our design team and shape more intuitive, accessible, and human-centered products. Apply by September 4.
🧭 Board of Directors: help provide strategic direction and governance for Tor’s mission. Apply by September 21.
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Coordinated false reporting is a censorship threat to civil society, and it’s nearly invisible.
Senior researcher Alberto Fittarelli speaks to @OCCRP about this increasingly common tactic.
Read: occrp.org/en/news/i-terminat…
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Introducing Automatic Key Verification! Complementing the existing safety number system, automatic key verification provides an additional, streamlined way to confirm the privacy of your chats.
Read our announcement here: signal.org/blog/automatic-ke…
Thanks to @Cloudflare and @trailofbits for serving as the independent auditors for our system 💙 🙏
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USA TODAY is partnering with Palantir to de-anonymize & ID readers across 200 newspapers.
And turn them into "actionable intelligence."
That spy language from @USATODAY is a huge red flag.
I'm sure they are trying to stay profitable.
But media exists to hold power accountable.
Not to partner with defense intelligence contractors.
Or treat readers like intelligence targets.
By: @HanaaTameez
niemanlab.org/2026/08/americ…
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The rules are set to change — but not to protect people's rights.
Across the MENA region, new social media laws are being proposed with one aim: to expand state control over online expression.
Learn more ⬇️ accessnow.org/mena-social-me…
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If you use Signal to work with sensitive contacts, it’s not a “set it and forget it” app.
You do need to maintain the safety of your account.
Our digital security team walks through foundational account security settings to help.
freedom.press/digisec/blog/s…
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Spyware company NSO Group’s co-founder Shalev Hulio used an Israeli diplomatic passport to enter Panama in 2013, raising questions over the firm’s claims of independence from the Israeli state.
occrp.org/en/project/the-peg…
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Until Congress reforms the Espionage Act, it will remain a loaded gun pointed at whistleblowers and the press.
@RSF_inter highlights how the U.S. has deployed this law as part of a worldwide trend of using “national security” to persecute the press.
rsf.org/en/new-rsf-report-na…
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If you use @signalapp to work with sensitive contacts, it’s not a “set it and forget it” app.
You do need to maintain the safety of your account.
Our digital security team walks through foundational account security settings to help.
freedom.press/digisec/blog/s…
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Qubes OS 4.3.1 has been released!
qubes-os.org/news/2026/06/11…
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It was a pleasure to speak with @iMEdD_org and @pfronista about the work of the @citizenlab while in Athens, Greece.
"Surveillance capitalism, counterintelligence for civil society, and journalism: a conversation with Citizen Lab’s founder"
lab.imedd.org/en/surveillanc…
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Our statement on the UK government’s demand that all content on all devices sold or used in the country be scanned, on the presumption of nudity, using a dystopian combination of age verification and content scanning. This proposal will not safeguard children. It endangers us all.
signal.org/blog/pdfs/2026-06…
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Help us keep Internet Freedom infrastructure online 👇
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This is what the UK spyware proposal means.
There must be government spyware on every mobile device. It shall watch everything that happens, including always watching the screen, looking for things the government disapproves of.
When anything is flagged by the software as something the government doesn't like, the software must block it from being sent or displayed (in realtime).
The user of the device must not be able to shut this watching and blocking off. The only way to shut it off would be to ask the government or its proxies to do so for you, at their discretion.
Therefore the whole device must be locked down. Administrator rights and the decision of what software or operating system to run or not to run must be taken from the owner/user and handed to the government and its proxies.
Apple and Google are themselves working hard to lock down the devices they are involved in to shut out competition and establish a duopoly.
The UK government says it is "working closely" with Apple and Google and currently they synchronise and coordinate their communication on this subject.
The UK government is now proposing to mandate what would otherwise be illegal anti-competitive practices.
@GrapheneOS on the Apple and Google duopoly:
xitter.cf/GrapheneOS/status/2053…
Statement from @signalapp
xitter.cf/signalapp/status/20640…
@ReclaimTheNetHQ on the state spyware:
reclaimthenet.org/starmer-ca…
The government announcement:
gov.uk/government/news/new-p…
Our statement on the UK government’s demand that all content on all devices sold or used in the country be scanned, on the presumption of nudity, using a dystopian combination of age verification and content scanning. This proposal will not safeguard children. It endangers us all.
signal.org/blog/pdfs/2026-06…
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Mandatory phone scanning won't make you a good parent.
It will lead down a path where under 16-year-olds only have access to government sanctioned information.
There is also the side effect of making them the next generation of VPN experts.
This government will not stand by while children are put at risk online.
Today I am calling on the tech companies to introduce device-level controls to prevent children from taking, sharing or viewing nude images.
And if they don’t act, we will.
Readers added context they thought people might want to know
Jess Phillips resigned from gvnt May 12 citing Starmer's failure to act on this specific measure.
lbc.co.uk/article/keir-s…
Technology like this requires blanket ID vertification to take vetted photos. Kids easily verify as adults rendering measures useless while curbing liberty for everyone else.
eff.org/pages/uk-onlin…
thedailyeconomy.org/article/califo…