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This Week
📱 Starmer wants to ban children from private messaging. Uses disappearing messages himself.
🍎 UK gave Apple and Google 3 months to scan every device in Britain.
🌐 Google disabled adblockers. Google sells ads.
Privacy for the people writing the laws.
Surveillance for everyone living under them.
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SMSPool.net retweeted
Jun 9
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:
x.com/GrapheneOS/status/2053…
Statement from @signalapp
x.com/signalapp/status/20640…
@ReclaimTheNetHQ on the state spyware:
reclaimthenet.org/starmer-ca…
The government announcement:
gov.uk/government/news/new-p…
Jun 8
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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SMSPool.net retweeted
Jun 8
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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Jun 8
Device-level controls means the government decides what images exist on your phone. That's not child protection, that's surveillance.
What are you doing @Keir_Starmer?
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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Introducing Loupe, our latest privacy app for iOS. Discover what apps can learn about you just by reading data your iPhone already exposes, such as your languages, installed apps, device sensors, and much much more
Loupe is free, private, and open source. Give it a try 👇
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Jun 2
🇨🇭Switzerland built its whole reputation on privacy. Now it's proposing a surveillance law that would force VPNs, email, and messaging providers to collect your ID, log your data for six months, and decrypt it on demand.
Proton says it's worse than the US.
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May 26
could've sent it to me but ok
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May 23
Ofcom is the problem here
BREAKING: UK's incoming speech regulator Ofcom just called VPNs a "technical problem."
35 million people use VPNs in the UK.
The technical problem isn't the VPN.
It's the regulator.
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May 22
There’s a new AI tool to access government information.
GOV.UK Chat draws on tens of thousands of pages of GOV.UK guidance. It lets you ask questions and get clear, reliable answers in seconds. You can find Chat in the free GOV.UK app.
Download for iOS on the App Store apps.apple.com/gb/app/gov-uk…
Download for Android on the Google Play Store play.google.com/store/apps/d…
Find out more at gov.uk/app
ALT A smartphone displaying the GOV.UK Chat interface, which is an experimental AI tool. The screen shows a chat about available support after having a baby, mentioning "Child Benefit." The background is light blue with the text "Chat is here" prominently displayed.
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SMSPool.net retweeted
May 20
🚨 Canada’s Bill C-22 is here & it’s the same surveillance bill from last year's failed C-2. 🚨
What does this mean?
❌ Your metadata would be stored by electronic service providers - for example messaging and email providers - for up to 12 months.
❌ The government would force these companies to build surveillance capabilities directly into their platforms.
The government calls it “lawful access” but we know that forcing providers to enable access to encrypted data puts EVERYONE'S privacy & security at risk. 😡
Because we know that there is no backdoor for the good guys only!
Help us fight for Canadian's privacy & say no to this surveillance bill.
Send a letter to reject Bill C-22 here 👉 internetsociety.org/our-work…
#Canada #CanadaBill #Surveillance
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In the last few weeks:
🛑Google flagged privacy phones as fraudulent
🇫🇷France criminally charged Elon
🇪🇺 Meta faces $12B fine for not knowing who you are
🇪🇺EU proposed behavior profiling ID for every login
🇬🇧 Palantir UK contract: your data kept 2 years after exit
🇬🇧UK passed facial recognition nationwide
🇬🇧PlayStation mandated face scans to talk to friends
🇩🇪 Germany pushing IP retention with no judicial review
🇷🇺 Russia confirmed the internet has an off switch
➡️Time to take your privacy seriously
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May 10
Don't be evil @Google, do the right thing.
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Don'…
‼️🚨 ALARMING: Google now treats privacy as suspicious behavior by default. Users of GrapheneOS, CalyxOS, /e/OS, and other deGoogled Android phones are being locked out of millions of websites unless they install the exact Google Play Services software they deliberately removed.
GrapheneOS is recommended by the EFF and used by journalists, lawyers, and activists in high-risk environments. The audience most likely to read Google's data practices and refuse its terms is now flagged as fraudulent for that exact decision.
What happened?:
▪️ Google announced "Cloud Fraud Defense" at Cloud Next on April 22-23, 2026, branding it "the next evolution of reCAPTCHA." Existing reCAPTCHA customers were auto-migrated.
▪️ When the system flags traffic as suspicious, the old click-the-bus puzzle is gone. Users get a QR code instead.
▪️ Scanning the QR code requires Google Play Services running on the device. Internet Archive snapshots show this requirement has been live since at least October 2025, silently rolled out for 7 months before anyone noticed.
▪️ No Play Services = no QR scan = locked out.
The bigger picture:
▪️ Google already tried this in 2023. It was called Web Environment Integrity (WEI), and it would have let Google decide which devices were "real enough" to access the web. Standards bodies and the public pushed back hard, and Google killed it. Three years later, the same idea is back, just hidden behind a QR code instead of a browser feature.
▪️ reCAPTCHA runs on millions of websites. Every developer who keeps using it is now, by default, telling deGoogled Android users they're not welcome...
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May 7
Starts with S and we all love it
May 7
Starts with P and we all love it
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May 5
Cross-platform end-to-end encrypted RCS is finally on iOS 26. E2EE means only you and the person you're messaging can read your messages, not Apple, Google, or anyone else. If you're on the iOS 26 dev beta, enable it now. 🔒
May 4
Interoperable E2EE RCS is finally rolling out in iOS 26.5. This is huge and I’m very proud of my teams to make this happen and protect the privacy of millions of users 🔒
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Starting September 2026, a silent update, nonconsensually pushed by Google, will block every Android app whose developer hasn't registered with Google, signed their contract, paid up, and handed over government ID.
keepandroidopen.org/
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May 4
Darth Sidious once tried to pass the Enhanced Privacy Invasion Bill, giving the government power to spy on every citizen "for their protection". 👁️
Sound familiar?
May the 4th be with you!
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SMSPool.net retweeted
Apr 29
“Age verification” is being sold as protection.
When in reality, it requires your ID to access the internet and opens the door to widespread surveillance.
What do you think age verification should be re-branded as?
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May 1
🇯🇵 Japanese phone numbers are some of the hardest to get in the world, strict carrier rules mean most SMS verification providers simply don't offer them.
We do.
Use them for Pokémon Center Japan raffles, Premium Bandai, Mercari Japan, Yahoo! Japan Auctions & more.
smspool.net/article/how-to-g…
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