Olives @olives@qoto.org

I think that with Dropbox in particular, these are bound to be someone's private backed up files, and it really should be illegal to do so-called "chat control" on them.

I never thought I'd see a paper which takes the posts of random internet tough guys on social media as genuine views (they're probably not).

I'm drafting a new part 2 to that dive but it's delayed as I don't want to make a too minor change. I'll probably keep the old one around for comparison sake.

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2019/jul/25/priti-patel-record-human-rights-extreme-concern If you want an idea of the sort of people who've been running the U.K. Home Office who have been promoting the #chatcontrol. She was especially anti-E2EE. #HumanRights

https://truthout.org/articles/report-tx-county-lawyers-failed-to-provide-basic-services-for-death-row-clients/

"A new two–part report from the Wren Collective, an organization that seeks to “reimagine the way our country approaches criminal justice,” showcases how dozens of capital punishment convictions in Harris County, Texas, over the past two decades featured instances of court-appointed lawyers failing to provide adequate defenses for their clients.

These failures include neglecting to demonstrate important background on their clients’ lives that could have helped defendants during the punishment stage following conviction. The report also demonstrates that lawyers repeatedly failed to meet with their clients enough times to understand their situation or form a proper narrative to help them at trial."

#HumanRights

https://truthout.org/articles/so-called-child-welfare-tears-families-apart-how-can-we-repair-this-harm/ Child Protective Services criticized for being far too eager to separate poor families due to "neglect". #HumanRights

https://truthout.org/articles/incarcerated-women-suffered-harms-in-university-of-pennsylvania-led-medical-experiments/
More disturbing cases of prisoners being treated like guinea pigs for research in the past. This time involving women.

Disturbing read but an important one. #HumanRights

To Germany, treating criminals like guinea pigs for research is not okay, and there needs to be a serious human rights reckoning there.

I think it's partly to convey emotion.

https://blog.ericgoldman.org/archives/2023/12/twitter-defeats-fosta-case-over-csam-doe-v-twitter.htm That is good. It would otherwise set a very dangerous precedent, if someone could point to "this case" or "that case" where something wasn't moderated perfectly (i.e. quickly enough, in this case), and would be a threat to people's rights (as it would lead to great collateral damage).

Let's just hope it won't start generating nonsense.

https://web.archive.org/web/20231216113909/https://www.coe.int/en/web/cybercrime/workshop-3-online-child-sexual-exploitation-and-abuse-13-december-2023 They're probably promoting chat control at that workshop, given the context and usual chat control advocates.

Worth mentioning that there was a snap election in 2019 in the U.K. and a far more populist government was elected. While the precise timing might or might not jive with that particular incident in 2019, it might jive with the other shrill behavior.

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2023/12/suspects-can-refuse-to-provide-phone-passcodes-to-police-court-rules/
https://reason.com/volokh/2023/12/14/is-compelled-decryption-heading-to-the-supreme-court/

"Criminal suspects can refuse to provide phone passcodes to police under the US Constitution's Fifth Amendment privilege against self-incrimination, according to a unanimous ruling issued today by Utah's state Supreme Court."

#privacy