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The Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) has joined the American Civil Liberties Union, Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), and Fight for the Future calling on the House Energy and Commerce Committee to oppose
H.R. 7521, the “Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act”.
This bill would functionally ban the distribution of TikTok in the United States, and would grant the President broad new powers to ban other social media platforms based on t…

CDT Joins Others in Letter Opposing the Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act
The Center for Democracy & Technology (CDT) has joined the American Civil Liberties Union, Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF), and Fight for the Future calling on the House Energy and Commerce Committee to oppose H.R. 7521, the “Protecting Americans from Foreign Adversary Controlled Applications Act,” because it would violate the First Amendment rights of Americans across […]

In its annual report, Civil Liberties Union for Europe says media freedom is declining across the EU and "perilously close to breaking point" in some countries (Jon Henley/The Guardian)
https://www.theguardian.com/media/2024/apr

Free our birds: what is happening with illegal imprisonment of Ukrainians in Russia: https://benborges.xyz/2024/02/28/free-our-birds.html

The BC Civil Liberties Association is opposed to the presence of School Liaison Officers, or police in schools. Police in schools create significant harms and rights violations for students and staff, particularly racialized and marginalized students from heavily policed communities.
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#BC #bcpoli

“In long-established – so resilient – democracies where far-right parties are in power, or influencing power, such as Italy and Sweden, Liberties said deterioration of the rule of law, while gradual, risked becoming systemic.” https://www.theguardian.com/world/2024/mar

Each week, Metacurity offers our free and premium subscribers a digest of the best infosec-related long reads.
This week's selection covers
--Crypto startups are scrimping on security,
--Fake streaming music accounts pump up royalties,
--The problems with post-quantum cryptography,
--American barriers to TikTok-like foreign surveillance go back to 1787,
--Social resistance to app overuse clashes with civil liberties in TikTok ban,
--TikTok's Project Texas is dead
https://www.metacurity.com/p/best-infosecrelated-long-reads-week-31624

And the slow walk to US fascism continues. https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1781546937675657392.html

Thread by @LizaGoitein on Thread Reader App
@LizaGoitein: It’s over (for now). A majority of senators caved to the fearmongering and bush league tactics of the administration and surveillance hawks in Congress, and they sold out Americans’ civil liberties. Se...…

Via New Statesman: 'Many authoritarian leaders were democratically elected and used that popular support to justify curtailing civil liberties. Trump has been clear that if he is put into office, he will try to change the rules so that he can impose his agenda without representative democracy or checks and balances. Trump barely grasps what these rules even are. This time around, he has a team of conservative zealots who understand American democratic governance well enough to break it.&…

Each week, Metacurity offers our free and premium subscribers a digest of the best infosec-related long reads.
This week's selection covers
--Crypto startups are scrimping on security,
--Fake streaming music accounts pump up royalties,
--The problems with post-quantum cryptography,
--American barriers to TikTok-like foreign surveillance go back to 1787,
--Social resistance to app overuse clashes with civil liberties in TikTok ban,
--TikTok's Project Texas is dead
https://www.metacurity.com/p/best-infosecrelated-long-reads-week-31624

Wall Street Journal Opinion on:
The Moral Blindness of Putin’s Apologists on the Right
is subtitled:
"They have embraced the moral equivalence that used to define the self-loathing left-wing elites."
Even when taking the right side the Murdochs can't resist being dicks

The principal components of electoral regimes -- Separating autocracies from pseudo-democracies
Karoline Wiesner, Samuel Bien, Matthew C. Wilson
https://arxiv.org/abs/2402.11335 <…

The principal components of electoral regimes -- Separating autocracies from pseudo-democracies
A critical issue for society today is the emergence and decline of democracy worldwide. It is unclear, however, how democratic features, such as elections and civil liberties, influence this change. Democracy indices, which are the standard tool to study this question, are based on the a priori assumption that improvement in any individual feature strengthens democracy overall. We show that this assumption does not always hold. We use the V-Dem dataset for a quantitative study of electoral regi…