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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Sep 1

    The true challenge is not to enumerate the risk, but to live with it.

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  2. 3 hours ago

    I am sorry to report that our friend quoted above has deleted an extremely funny tweet. We will now return to our regularly scheduled programming.

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  3. 4 hours ago

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  4. 4 hours ago

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  5. 4 hours ago

    yes yes this is an excellent point what has *checks notes* edward snowden ever done to reveal the misbehavior of facebook and google, especially in the last 10 years

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  6. Retweeted
    15 hours ago

    BREAKING: Apple pauses its plan to do client-side scanning for CSAM. This is a direct response to the outcry from users and civil society. We're not done, but this is a reminder that collective action moves the needle.

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  7. 13 hours ago

    they really underestimated how hard we can screech

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  8. Retweeted
    16 hours ago

    With Apple's announcement that it's going to delay implementation of child safety features until it, you know, actually talks to people and gets feedback, and this news that WhatsApp is going to start encrypting back ups, privacy advocates have a moment to feel good about things.

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  9. Retweeted
    19 hours ago
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    As Paul notes: this is not a victory, this is merely hope; and in a sense we will have to defend Apple who will doubtless be criticised from some quarters, for their taking extra time to consider the consequences of their original plan.

    Replying to @AlecMuffett
    Reminds us that it’s always worth fighting, and always worth making a fuss.
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  10. Retweeted
    Sep 2

    "The information that answers our sincere Internet queries is in a manner algorithmically aligned with our preferences, and our community’s preferences. Though for the word “preferences,” you might as well substitute “biases”…" -

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  11. Retweeted
    19 hours ago

    My suggestions to Apple: (1) talk to the technical and policy communities before you do whatever you’re going to do. Talk to the general public as well. This isn’t a fancy new Touchbar: it’s a privacy compromise that affects 1bn users. 1/

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  12. 17 hours ago

    Remember all the tweets about 's insane proposal? Don't ever let anyone tell you that there's nothing you can do when a company announces a plan to screw you. This is a HUGE victory, but remember: this thing isn't dead yet. Be ready to fight if it comes back.

    Breaking: Apple has delayed rolling out its CSAM detection technology in iOS 15, citing feedback from customers, advocacy groups, researchers and others — which has been largely negative since the technology was announced in August.
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  13. Sep 2

    And yet you are demanding a sham prosecution of Julian Assange for specific act of journalism that won awards around the world.

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    During today’s briefing, expressed deep concern at the continued detention of U.S. journalist Danny Fenster in Burma: “Journalism is not a crime.”
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  14. Sep 2

    1. people who accept climate change and think it is caused by humans 2. people who accept climate change and think it is caused by nature 3. people who don’t accept climate change at all What do they have in common?

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  15. Sep 2

    If you don’t want to hear about this stuff, you have a choice: you can either look at the other side’s “data” that says the opposite, or you can toss your phone into the ocean... which is littering.

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  16. Retweeted
    Aug 27

    Stay out of our phones, . Apple's entire brand is built on the idea that you respect that boundary. The minute you roll out a "client-side scanning" system, you have broken that promise. Whatever you're doing here is not worth that.

    Somebody needs to tell and 's board that if this many people are wading through *two-thousand word* tracts on the future cost of their proposed "client-side scanning" system, Apple needs to correct course: "Delay" the rollout. Blame new research. Kill it quietly.
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  17. Retweeted
    Sep 1

    Data as filtered by what calls itself the media⁠—as opposed to data as filtered by an individual⁠—should be better, but isn’t.

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  18. Retweeted
    Sep 1

    This mutant strain has become its own pandemic—one that leaves us in denial about our ability to create change.

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  19. Sep 1

    Context:

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  20. Sep 1

    Milley, chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff: “the perception in the US, in Europe and the media is a narrative of Taliban momentum, and a narrative of Taliban victory. And we need to... try to turn that perception, that narrative around.” More focused on optics than evacuation

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