Olives @olives@qoto.org

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/07/maryland-supreme-court-police-cant-search-digital-data-when-users-revoke-consent Maryland Supreme Court rules that officers can't search data (without a warrant) after someone withdraws consent to do so.

https://reason.com/2023/07/27/brickbat-getting-slammed/
https://www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news/california-man-paralyzed-run-police-gets-20-million-settlement-rcna93800
Elderly veteran receives $20 million settlement over lawsuit over being slammed into the ground by cops (over suspected drunk driving) and being left paralyzed.

Mocked by cops.

https://reason.com/2023/07/27/a-swat-team-destroyed-an-innocent-mans-shop-then-the-city-left-him-with-the-bill/ Man wants SWAT Team to compensate him for destroying his shop.

https://boingboing.net/2023/07/27/teachers-at-private-texas-school-fired-for-going-to-drag-show.html Teacher at private school fired for going to drag show.

Web Environment Integrity is a horrible idea and Google should be ashamed.

Keep fighting!

This describes it well.

Yeah, Ylva's opinion survey is unethical. If you want honest opinions, trying to twist someone's arm / influence them to answer a particular way seems antithetical to that.

Also, some of the claims she made to these people were also misleading / false.

https://reason.com/2023/07/26/he-spent-10-years-behind-bars-without-being-convicted-hell-have-to-wait-longer-to-have-the-case-resolved/ Isn't it unconstitutional to lock someone up for a decade without a trial?

https://www.engadget.com/2019-05-31-sex-lies-and-surveillance-fosta-privacy.html Oh. I forgot about this article. How nostalgic.

Running that same survey again with a slight modification (to add a few items reliant on existing items) doesn't fix the underlying flaws in it...

Of course, he is trying to invoke a weak flavor of "won't anyone please think of the children?" to try to push his unconstitutional ideas.

https://www.xbiz.com/news/275670/conservative-activist-admits-anti-porn-state-laws-are-experiment-for-future-federal-prosecutions A new annoying puritan.

https://element.io/blog/end-to-end-encryption-the-will-of-the-british-people/ Apparently, there is a survey which shows how valuable Brits think end-to-end encryption is to their lives.

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/07/uk-government-very-close-eroding-encryption-worldwide I would set fire to this entire bill. It's a mess.

Someone had the idea of uploading every image to Microsoft's servers for them to check for evil bits. Isn't that a bit... intrusive...?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I14b-C67EXY Since we're talking about Microsoft, here's a hilarious video starring Steve Ballmer.