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Jun 10
Status is privacy by default this isn’t a promise it’s an architecture choice here’s how👇
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Jun 12
Status v2.38 is almost here
Your messages, wallet, browser, and Web3 activity, brought closer together inside one privacy-first app.
Stay tune!
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Jun 11
Why it's always Privacy V/s Safety
privacy is not evidence of wrongdoing
it is the foundation of free speech, human dignity and individual freedom.
Jun 8
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.
Community note
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…
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Jun 10
RT @roxananasoi: Surveillance is not Safety. A Ban is not Care.
A government that holds everyone else accountable but never its own insti…
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Jun 10
The UK has given Apple and Google three months to introduce safeguards that detect and block nude images on children’s devices.
That means inspection happens at the operating system level before encryption protects the message or after it has been decrypted.
Encryption may remain intact
Privacy may not ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
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Jun 10
Status is privacy by default this isn’t a promise it’s an architecture choice here’s how👇
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Jun 10
Most apps start with identity → then add encryption by the time data is “secured”, metadata already exists
At Status, profiles are created from cryptographic keys, not emails, phone numbers, or accounts
★ Chats use end-to-end encryption
★ Wallets are self-custodial
★ Browsing happens without third-party trackers
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Jun 10
on Status identity is never collected,
privacy doesn’t need to be “enabled”
there’s nothing to turn off ¯\(ツ)/¯
that’s why privacy is the default
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Jun 8
This is how centralisation works.
Establish the censorship, then increase it
Jun 7
A social media ban should be extended to those aged 16 and 17, the children’s commissioner has proposed.
Keir Starmer is considering whether to ban under-16s from social media sites, but Dame Rachel de Souza has said that any ban must apply “equally to all children” up to 18.
🔗: telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/06…
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Jun 7
"Privacy is power - and they don't want you to have any"
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Jun 7
"We use your data to improve your experience."
Your experience: the same
Their revenue: up 2X - 3X year on year
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Jun 4
Surprisingly accurate description of how Big Tech stores your metadata for years.
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Jun 1
If an AI can reset your account, revoke your sessions, and lock you out, who really owns the account?
Ownership without control is just permission
‼️🚨 BREAKING: Meta's AI feature let attackers hijack Instagram accounts for days with nothing but a username. It was being A/B tested on a slice of users, and if you were in the test, you couldn't turn it off. Among the casualties: the official Obama White House account.
The method: get on a VPN near the target's region, ask the Meta AI support agent to send a verification code to any email you control, relay that code back to the agent, and it hands over a password reset link. Without ID or human review. From there, the account is yours.
The flaw lived in the AI's logic layer, which acted on recovery requests with no real identity checks. One researcher compared it to the Roblox AI assistant exploit from days earlier, where you needed a target's billing info. Instagram was easier: the username and a regional VPN were enough and victims reported sessions revoked and passwords changed with no email, text, or push alert at all.
By the time it went public, the method was common knowledge in blackhat Telegram circles and had been used to allegedly hijack 100 high-value accounts.
Accounts hit:
- obamawhitehouse (the archived official Obama White House account, ~2.4M followers. Hackers posted an AI-generated image captioned "The White House is under Shiites' control," plus cryptic anti-Trump and pro-Iranian Stories. Meta confirmed the hack and scrubbed it.
- Premium short handles like hey and jowo, worth over $1M combined, stolen and flipped on Telegram.
- albert (owned by Albert Renshaw), whose owner publicly reported being locked out and unable to reach Meta support.
Meta has since patched it. There was no public acknowledgment.
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Jun 1
“I have nothing to hide” or “Privacy is only for criminals”
okay, but what about your:
> Medical history
> Bank activity
> Location patterns
> Private conversations
> Search history
> Family details
> Political opinions
> Relationship data
Privacy was never about hiding.
It was always about protecting your life, and taking back control over who gets access to it.
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May 30
When Big Tech says “You control your privacy,” they usually mean:
• What others can see
• Who can contact you
• Whether your profile is public
What it rarely means:
• Stop internal profiling
• Delete behavioral analytics
• Prevent data sharing
• Opt out of inference models
Control over visibility isn’t the same as control over data collection.
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May 29
E2EE hides the content.
Not the footprint.
Your IP, account, API key, auth session, provider route, model usage, request IDs, billing events, and metadata can still be visible.
Privacy is not just encryption.
It’s the architecture around it.
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Status retweeted
May 25
True privacy isn’t a marketing claim - it’s architecture.
No cloud backups that break encryption
No metadata
No God Modes
That’s why on Status, privacy is built into the stack - from your identity to your messages, wallet, browser, and communities.
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May 25
Transparency for the powerful
Privacy for the people
Not the other way around.
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May 21
Privacy isn't about having something to hide.
It's about having something to protect
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