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recent bookmarks from jmWhatsApp screenshots of Boris Johnson's innumeracy2023-03-03T10:39:27+00:00
https://mas.to/@kityates/109958429104381225
jmboris-johnson fail covid-19 uk uk-politics whatsapphttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:ddd1832b7712/I Thought My Job Was To Report On Tech In India. Instead, I’ve Watched Democracy Decline.2021-04-12T09:51:35+00:00
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/pranavdixit/indian-government-using-tech-destroy-democracy
jmI love tech. But watching it intersect with a Hindu nationalist government trying to crush dissent, choke a free press, and destroy a nation’s secular ethos doesn’t feel like something I bought a ticket to. Writing about technology from India now feels like having a front-row seat to the country’s rapid slide into authoritarianism. “It’s like watching a train wreck while you’re inside the train,” I Slacked my boss in November.
]]>india technology whatsapp facebook twitter scary authoritarianism dystopia techhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:4fbaf295eccc/Excellent Twitter thread on Facebook in Myanmar2019-10-20T20:24:40+00:00
https://twitter.com/nitashatiku/status/1185982325084934145
jmfacebook whatsapp genocide politics hate-crimes india myanmar sri-lanka abuse moderationhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:b2c83ffe879e/Upgrading WhatsApp Security – Medium2017-03-07T12:09:41+00:00
https://medium.com/@mshelton/upgrading-whatsapp-security-386c8ce496d3#.kvtd9idpw
jmwhatsapp security crypto via:zeynephttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:1b109ec7cc05/Law to allow snooping on social media defies European court ruling2016-07-08T12:54:16+00:00
https://www.irishtimes.com/business/technology/law-to-allow-snooping-on-social-media-defies-european-court-ruling-1.2712580
jmBut there’s lots in this legislation that should scare the public far more. For example, the proposal that the legislation should allow the retention of “superfluous data” gathered in the course of an investigation, which is a direct contravention of the ECJ’s demand that surveillance must be targeted and data held must be specifically relevant, not a trawl to be stored for later perusal “just in case”.
Or the claim that interception and retention of data, and access to it, will only be in cases of the most serious crime or terrorism threats. Oh, please. This was, and remains, the supposed basis for our existing, ECJ-invalidated legislation. Yet, as last year’s Gsoc investigation into Garda leaks revealed, it turns out a number of interconnected pieces of national legislation allow at least 10 different agencies access to retained data, including Gsoc, the Competition Authority, local authorities and the Irish Medicines Board.
]]>surveillance ireland whatsapp viber snowden snooping karlin-lillington facebook internet data-retentionhttps://pinboard.in/https://pinboard.in/u:jm/b:36a1043fbb01/'Scaling to Millions of Simultaneous Connections' [pdf]2014-02-20T14:24:00+00:00
http://www.erlang-factory.com/upload/presentations/558/efsf2012-whatsapp-scaling.pdf
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