Em :official_verified:

Public-interest technologist and digital rights activist, with a focus on privacy rights, privacy laws, and privacy technologies.

I'm a consultant, writer, researcher, advocate, programmer, and designer (from a previous career).

Spending most days writing, reading, and talking about privacy.

Member of the @lockdownsystems collective 🐢

Previously 🔒
Journalist + Activism & Outreach Lead at @privacyguides

Currently 👇
Available for a new remote opportunity!

Located in Canada 🇨🇦
She/Her 🏳️‍🌈

Privacy tips: #TinyPrivacyTip
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#DigitalRights #HumanRights #Privacy #Security #FOSS #OpenSource #NoAI

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🐘 infosec.space/@Em0nM4stodon
🐘 mastodon.social/@Em0nM4stodon

#nobridge #nobot #nobots #noai #noindex #nosearch #noarchive #fedi22

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Last Notes

2026-08-04 17:14:37 GMT

The minimum wage should be tied in percentage to the maximum rent allowed for a one-bedroom apartment.
Someone working full-time should be able to cover all their minimal living expenses with their wage. It's social insanity that this isn't the case anymore in many places around the world.

2026-08-01 15:50:26 GMT

A software program doesn't "go rogue,"
it's just a poorly coded program with lots of bugs and security vulnerabilities produced by human carelessness.
Yes, I'm talking about AI.
#NoAI

2026-07-30 17:22:03 GMT

What is your favourite piece of software that you use daily on your desktop or mobile device?

2026-07-19 17:37:54 GMT

I know a service is located in the United-States when there aren't any specifications of currency in pricing, and almost nothing mentions where they are located on the website 🫣
People speak English and use dollars outside the US my American friends. Please try to keep us in mind.
#Localization #US

2026-07-17 18:34:12 GMT

What's the best tv show you have watched this year? :ablobcatpopcorn:
#AskFedi

2026-07-17 18:31:18 GMT

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@nprofile…pa6j The entitlement to others' time some people display is absolutely wild.

2026-07-17 04:56:41 GMT

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@nprofile…wv34 Ah, well I'm not in or from the US, so thankfully that isn't my administration.

2026-07-17 04:52:19 GMT

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@nprofile…wv34 Which administration?

2026-07-15 00:05:20 GMT

We live in the sort of timeline where I had to spend extra effort while shopping for my new prescription glasses frame to make sure it was unambiguously clear that these aren't surveillance pervert glasses.
Yep. We're there.
These horrifying non-consensual surveillance glasses are everywhere now. That's life now. I hate it 🤓
#BanRayBan #Meta #PervertGlasses #SmartGlasses #Surveillance #Privacy #Consent

2026-06-22 17:05:31 GMT

The more I see quote-posts here, the less I like quote posts honestly. I had forgotten about them completely and was quite happy with that.

2026-06-18 21:18:31 GMT

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@nprofile…4xpq I hope I see these changes within my living time. The current state of wealth inequality is horrific and unsustainable.

2026-06-15 18:49:54 GMT

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@nprofile…vmwx Sadly, this will just lead to biometrics collection over time. They've already started developing products for this.

2026-06-15 16:05:58 GMT

Do not provide your ID or facial scan to access social media.
I repeat, do NOT provide your ID or facial scan to access social media when requested.
This is not a drill.
If everyone refuse to comply, and let their accounts dormant instead, I promise you the platforms themselves, with their immense budget and network of lobbyists, are going to fight these absurd laws to recover their users.
They need you more than you need them.
Make them fight for your rights.
Do not comply.
Spread the word and boycott ID checks ✊
#StopIDSurveillance #AgeVerification #Privacy #HumanRights #Democracy #Safety #MassSurveillance #Authoritarianism

2026-06-14 18:13:13 GMT

What activity do you do to take a temporary break from the world's doom, and come back to the fight refreshed and energized?
🌱🎮⚽️🧳🎨🍿👀

2026-06-11 15:46:27 GMT

From Global News:
Grok AI broke Canada’s laws, created 6K sexual deepfakes per hour
"The investigation has found that X Corp and xAI violated Canada’s federal private sector privacy law by launching the Grok AI-powered image generation tool without implementing appropriate safeguards at the outset," privacy commissioner Philippe Dufresne said in a press conference in Ottawa Thursday.
https://globalnews.ca/news/11899687/grok-sexual-deepfake-report/
#NoAI #Grok #Privacy #Consent #CanPoli

2026-06-08 21:33:28 GMT

Is there a tech conference that only presents software and topics that do not use any AI?
#Tech #NoAI

2026-06-08 21:01:58 GMT

I'm so tired of the AI hype.
Can we start solving real problems please?
#NoAI

2026-06-08 00:17:35 GMT

What do you miss the most about how the web was 10, 20, or 30 years ago? 🕸️✨
#Web #Tech

2026-06-07 17:35:40 GMT

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@nprofile…kmsn 🎉

2026-06-07 17:20:50 GMT

I want to rebuild my blog and start writing regularly again, but for weeks I've been a bit in a state of analysis paralysis about the best way to do this, and the best way to potentially monetize it a bit (since sadly I need income).
What do you think would be the best way for me to try to monetize my blog? Is it even worth trying?
What would make you want to contribute to support my writing, and in which ways?
#Blog #Writing #GetSelfFediHired

2026-06-07 17:12:58 GMT

What is your favourite good news you heard of this month? 📰👀
#AskFedi #Hope

2026-06-07 16:50:59 GMT

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@nprofile…mqav Oh no 🫣🤦‍♀️

2026-06-07 15:52:12 GMT

Please stop with the floating elements on websites. They're hiding your content, and make me want to leave!
No, I don't want to "swipe to the next article" if there's also gonna be a giant floating arrow hiding the text and make me want to stop reading the one I'm painfully trying to read right now.
No, I don't want to "donate" if I can't even fully read what your organization is about because of all those buttons floating over your content.
The goal is to show your content! Why hiding it with a bajillion arrows, buttons, and popups? And please test your website for small mobile display. Your floating elements are ENORMOUS there 😭
#WebDesign

2026-06-07 15:04:23 GMT

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@nprofile…cue0 This is the way 👍

2026-06-04 21:45:54 GMT

Today, 37 years ago, was the Tiananmen Square massacre in Beijing.
Remember these events.
Remember these people who fought for freedom and democracy.
This is important 💛☂️
"On the 30th anniversary of the protests in 2019, the well-known Chinese artist Ai Weiwei wrote that 'autocratic and totalitarian regimes fear facts because they have built their power on unjust foundations' and he also wrote that memory is important: 'without it there is no such thing as a civilised society or nation' because 'our past is all we have.'"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1989_Tiananmen_Square_protests_and_massacre
#TiananmenSquare #Democracy #JuneFourth

2026-06-04 21:23:00 GMT

Incredibly reasonable minimal take:
Make Trillionaires and Billionaires Millionaires again.

2026-06-02 18:37:41 GMT

Tech could be good.
Tech could serve humanity first.
Surveillance capitalism isn't an inherent part of tech, it's an inherent part of capitalism.
We could, and we must, build better tech.
Tech for the people.
#Tech #Privacy #HumanRights

2026-06-01 19:03:59 GMT

I need more rainbows in my feed.
Please post more rainbows :rainbowdance:
More rainbows! :blobcatrainbow: :blobcatrainbow: :blobcatrainbow:
MORE RAINBOWS!!!!
:nyancat_rainbow: :nyancat_rainbow: :nyancat_rainbow: :nyancat_rainbow: :nyancat_body: :nyancat_face:
#Pride #PrideMonth

2026-05-30 17:34:54 GMT

Do you know a payment service that collects donations, tips, and monthly subscriptions that does NOT rely (only) on either PayPal or Stripe?
#AskFedi

2026-05-27 23:47:43 GMT

Seriously, I cannot emphasize this enough Canadian friends:
Bill C-22 SHALL NOT PASS! ⛔️
If you are Canadian, you must contact your representative ASAP to tell them you strongly oppose Bill C-22.
We cannot have this kind of authoritarianism in Canada (or anywhere else frankly).
More information here: https://action.openmedia.org/page/188754/action/1
Contact your representative(s) directly without the form by finding their contact information here: https://www.ourcommons.ca/members/en/search
#BillC22 #Privacy #HumanRights #DigitalRights #Canada #Authoritarianism #MassSurveillance #CanPoli #CndPoli

2026-05-27 12:56:34 GMT

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@nprofile…6q4p Here's the solution, this is what I did too: https://infosec.exchange/@Em0nM4stodon/116574167655290400

2026-05-26 05:52:01 GMT

I injured myself worse, in a new spot, while trying to protect another injured part I had. Is this what getting old is like? :neocat_up:

2026-05-20 23:48:39 GMT

I'm delighted to announce today that I have joined the Lockdown Systems collective! 🐢💚
We are working on amazing projects right now, many to be announced soon. If you want to get more information on our work, you can follow the collective here on Mastodon: @nprofile…6f6s
And if you want to support the work we do even more, we accept donations here :awesome: https://lockdown.systems/donate/
I look forward to contributing further to Lockdown Systems' projects, and continue working with this absolutely fantastic team! 🎉🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢🐢
#LockdownSystems

2026-05-19 05:34:05 GMT

These times are difficult for most of us.
But what gives you hope right now? 💚👀
#AskFedi #Hope

2026-05-15 00:06:16 GMT

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@nprofile…2v9q Fix all the things, just to be sure

2026-05-14 17:50:57 GMT

I really crave a Mastodon feature to "allow only replies from followers" or being able to remove all the disinformation being spread in my replies. Because the mansplaner season is strong this year. And I have no spoons to give free education to all of them.

2026-05-14 17:40:23 GMT

I just emailed a strongly worded letter
to my government representative to oppose Bill C-22.
If you are Canadian, you should too: https://action.openmedia.org/page/188754/action/1
#BillC22 #Privacy #HumanRights #Canada #CanPoli #CndPoli

2026-05-14 15:15:27 GMT

Just so you know, using an AI notetaker during a meeting without priorly asking for consent from all participants before starting it breaches many if not most privacy laws around the world.
In certain cases, it can even breach two-party consent laws, and be a criminal act.
Ideally, never use these privacy-invasive tools ever. But if you do use them, you must ask for everyone's consent first, and respect their choice fully if they refuse to be recorded.
#Privacy #AInotetakers #NoAI

2026-05-13 04:37:48 GMT

What is your favourite code editor that is:
1) light (feature-wise)
2) pretty (in a customizable way)
3) running on Linux :ablobcatbongokeyboard: 👀
#Linux #Programming #OpenSource

2026-05-13 04:29:40 GMT

Do not collect the data that you do not need.
Do not collect the data
that you do not need.
Do not collect
the data
that you
do not
need
.
#DataMinimization #Privacy #DigitalRights

2026-05-08 18:46:49 GMT

Which are good organizations to work at for women in tech? 👀
#AskFedi #WomenInTech

2026-05-08 15:28:43 GMT

I need to write again. I have so many ideas. But there are so many steps for me to complete before I can write again.
It would be much faster for me to write again if someone just hired me so that I could write for them. Just saying.
#GetFediHired

2026-05-07 15:51:07 GMT

From Global News:
"OpenAI violated Canadians’ privacy, watchdogs say in call for legal reform."
https://globalnews.ca/news/11836689/report-on-openai-expected-from-federal-provincial-privacy-watchdogs/
"The report criticizes OpenAI for rushing its ChatGPT products to market before having proper privacy safeguards in place, only addressing concerns after the fact, which violated accountability requirements in the federal Personal Information Protection and Electronic Documents Act (PIPEDA)."
"Michael Harvey suggested that ChatGPT by design 'cannot be compliant' with the province’s privacy law as currently written, which forbids companies from relying on 'implied consent' if it is not collecting the data itself, but rather from third-party websites."
#NoAI #Privacy #CanPoli

2026-05-04 13:57:54 GMT

It's May The Fourth today! :rebel:✨
To celebrate, tell us what is your favourite Star Wars tv series and who is your favourite character in it? 👀
#StarWars #MayThe4th

2026-04-28 14:58:29 GMT

Anyone asserting encryption is a tool for crime is either painfully misinformed or is attempting to manipulate legislators to gain oppressive power over the people.
Encryption is not a crime,
encryption is a shield.
Encryption protects you from cyberattack, identity theft, discrimination, doxxing, stalking, sexual violence, physical harm, and much more.
For safety, for privacy, for democracy, and for all our human rights, it's critical that we defend our right to encryption.
https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/04/11/encryption-is-not-a-crime/
#Privacy #Encryption #DigitalRights #HumanRights #Democracy #RootForE2EE

2026-04-25 15:13:12 GMT

Today is my Fediversary! :rainbowdance: ✨
I cannot tell you enough how much the Fediverse and Mastodon changed my life positively.
From the amazing community,
to a new connected social life free from big tech's authoritarianism, I will forever be grateful for what I found here 💚
If you want to give me a gift for my Fediversary, please send a donation to my incredible instance Infosec Exchange, generously administrated by @nprofile…l9z3
🎁 :em_rainbow: https://liberapay.com/Infosec.exchange/
On each of our Fediversary,
let's take a moment to appreciate all the people who kindly give their time to manage an instance for free, to do the hard work of moderation to protect us all, to contribute with code, documentation, art, and more. Without them, you and I wouldn't be here.
Thank you everyone for being part of this community :blobcatheart:
Long live the Fediverse! :blobcheer: :mastodon:
#Fediversary #Fediverse #Mastodon

2026-04-23 21:38:21 GMT

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@nprofile…ntm0 Interesting! That's much more affordable actually. I will look it up. Thanks for the recommendation Jonah!

2026-04-23 21:35:50 GMT

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@nprofile…6090 Thank you! I will go look at it 👀

2026-04-23 21:34:32 GMT

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@nprofile…wxce This is very helpful information! Thank you!!

2026-04-23 21:33:23 GMT

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@nprofile…xgry I will look it up! Thanks! 🙏

2026-04-23 21:32:44 GMT

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@nprofile…ml4y Indeed, I already use a simple static website now, but I'm looking if there could be an easier "all-in-one" solution, so that I would spend less time with coding and more time with writing.
I'm picky though (especially about data collection and design), and might just come back to a static website if it's simpler in the end.

2026-04-23 21:26:24 GMT

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@nprofile…wxce Have you used this solution yourself? How much control do you have on the data collected from visitors on WordPress?

2026-04-23 21:17:08 GMT

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@nprofile…ntm0 What makes me hesitant with Ghost is:
The high monthly fee
I'd rather not have to create an account on Stripe, and it seems Ghost only accepts Stripe.
Potential limited customization for themes, but I have not researched too deep into available themes.

2026-04-23 21:06:45 GMT

Do you know any good alternatives to Ghost for blog websites that:
Federates
Allows to collect donations
Don't collect more data than the minimum required to run the service
#AskFedi #Blog #Blogging #OpenSource #Fediverse

2026-04-22 19:05:17 GMT

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@nprofile…j4vx The Privacy Activist Toolbox isn't a list of tool recommendations for activists, but is actually a list of advice for privacy advocate. Quite a unique resource.
That being said, I did wrote a whole tutorial about Tails, this was my very first article for Privacy Guides in 2025: https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/01/29/installing-and-using-tails/

2026-04-22 17:53:03 GMT

If you've been wondering why
I haven't published any new articles in a while,
Just a reminder that I actually wrote 25 short articles just in February! They were all published together with the launch of Privacy Guides' new Activism section in March.
They're short articles offering practical tips and resources.
You can find them all linked here, on the Privacy Activist Toolbox page 🧰👇
https://www.privacyguides.org/en/activism/toolbox/
#Privacy #Activism #DigitalRights

2026-04-22 17:40:44 GMT

Age verification laws forcing platforms to restrict content access have been multiplying exponentially.
The problem is, implementing such measures necessarily requires identifying every user accessing the content, one way or another.
This is bad news for everyone.
If these regulations continue
to proliferate, this could lead to the end of pseudonymity online, and much worse.
I wrote this article last year,
but unfortunately this problem has only become worse, and it is sadly still very relevant.
https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/05/06/age-verification-wants-your-face/
#Privacy #AgeVerification #MassSurveillance #Authoritarianism

2026-04-22 17:28:05 GMT

Such a fantastic talk by @nprofile…4mdk .
Truly an essential watch in this sad day and age we're living in: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-6K3dPTV4HU
#Privacy #Safety #Fascism #Spyware

2026-04-21 18:23:25 GMT

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@nprofile…t20x Both! 💜

2026-04-21 14:00:18 GMT

You might have heard of Tor already,
yet never dared to try it yourself.
Despite being around for decades,
Tor is still a tool too few people know about. Tor is essential to journalists, activists, whistleblowers, dissidents, and people in vulnerable situations everywhere.
Thanks to Tor, activists have a safe way to continue fighting for human rights and resist censorship from oppressive regimes.
Here's how Tor works,
and why you should support it.
https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/04/30/in-praise-of-tor/
#Privacy #Activism #Tor #DigitalRights

2026-04-15 15:47:02 GMT

In privacy, we talk a lot about how to protect our own data,
But what about our responsibility to protect the data of others?
If you care about privacy rights, you must also care for the data of the people around you.
To make privacy work, we need to develop a culture that normalizes caring for everyone's data, not just our own.
https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/03/10/the-privacy-of-others/
#Privacy #Consent #HumanRights

2026-04-15 15:22:14 GMT

Laws are only as strong as their enforcement.
This is the core problem with most privacy laws. We need to demand better laws, with stronger, faster enforcement mechanisms.
#Privacy #PrivacyLaw #HumanRights

2026-04-12 17:50:53 GMT

When you read about Bans of Social Media for Teens and Age Verification, you must remember what it truly means:
• Official identification of every adult using social media.
• Deanonymization of every account, endangering groups that often rely on pseudonymity for safety, such as victims of domestic violence, victims of stalkers, people of color, and LGBTQ+ people.
• Putting every adult at great danger of exploitation, fraud, and identity theft by forcing them to share their official ID with a for-profit third-party company with no incentive to protect it. Breaches have already happened.
• Constructing a system of mass surveillance to attach every comment on social media to a legal identity. Effectively allowing authoritarian governments to silence their critics and opposition.
• Potential for dystopian censorship and cutting off means of organization for groups of resistance to oppressive regime and organizations.
• Endangering children online by putting a clear identification beacon over every child or family with children online.
• Endangering the data of children who will inevitably try to pass as adults, and have their information collected by the third-party for-profit company.
• Diminishing the value of official identification due to the inevitable data breaches, eventually pushing the system to require even more intrusive identification techniques, such as iris scans and fingerprints.
• Installing a system of mass surveillance capable of attaching even more information to everyone's legal identity. With a potential to built list of people in certain groups, and scale-up state censorship and discrimination in unprecedented ways.
• The list goes on and on.
This isn't about protecting the children.
It never was.
Do not be duped by this excuse used to convince you to let go of your human rights. They are only trying to manipulate people lacking information.
Stay informed on the issues related to Age Verification, and push back for your rights to privacy and democracy.
The future depends on us.
#AgeVerification #Privacy #HumanRights #MassSurveillance #Authoritarianism

2026-04-12 16:36:52 GMT

The horror of Age Verification is
arriving in Canada 🚨🇨🇦
Contact your federal MP and the office of the Prime Minister this week to tell them you strongly oppose the privacy-destroying and inefficient measure.
The time to push back is NOW: https://globalnews.ca/news/11797286/liberal-party-adopts-motion-social-media-ban-kids/
'Prime Minister Mark Carney said last month that the idea “merits an open and considered debate in Canada,” although he does not have a settled view on it yet and said there were good points on both sides.'
Shared educational resources with them on the dangers of Age Verification: https://www.eff.org/age
We do NOT want this nightmare in Canada. Fight back for your privacy rights! ✊🔒
#AgeVerification #Privacy #DigitalRights #HumanRights #MassSurveillance #Canada #CanPoli #CndPol

2026-04-08 14:56:26 GMT

If a human right is in the way of your "innovative" technology, the expected solution should be to modify your technology to respect this human right, not to reduce the protections to this human right.
Technology and innovation must be in service of humanity, not the other way around.
#HumanRights #DigitalRights #Privacy

2026-04-07 18:13:01 GMT

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@nprofile…2v9q Excellent, thank you! I need this too! 🙌

2026-04-06 16:52:26 GMT

"Texting a stranger is better for reducing loneliness than an AI chatbot, study finds"
From CTV News: https://www.ctvnews.ca/vancouver/article/texting-a-stranger-is-better-for-reducing-loneliness-than-an-ai-chatbot-study-finds/
"The study found that only those who texted with a fellow human reported feeling less lonely at the end of the experiment.
'We thought that interacting with AI might be as helpful as texting with a random fellow first-year student,' said the study’s author, psychology PhD candidate Ruo-Ning Li, in a media release.
'But to our surprise, only the human-to-human texting reduced loneliness over time. The chatbot, even though we designed it to be the ideal supportive friend, didn’t shift loneliness.'"
#NoAI #Loneliness

2026-04-04 16:48:34 GMT

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@nprofile…2v9q :d20:

2026-04-02 15:20:27 GMT

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@nprofile…6ec4 ✊💚

2026-04-02 01:38:40 GMT

Innovation without ethics is no innovation at all.
#NoAI

2026-04-01 05:55:18 GMT

There is so much disinformation in the world right now.
And in recent years, all of it gets amplified by AI web scrapers that eat it up to spit it out at a later date, in an inappropriate context.
Be careful what data you add to the slop soup on April 1st.
The world is in dire need of more truths and knowledge these days, not the opposite.
#AprilFools #AIFools #NoAI

2026-03-31 20:41:25 GMT

If you're feeling discouraged fighting against this fresh "AI" hell we're dealing with daily now,
I recommend listening to this awesome podcast by @nprofile…4eyj to lift your spirits.
You're not alone in this battle :no_ai:
Available on PeerTube!
https://peertube.dair-institute.org/c/mystery_ai_hype_theater/videos
#NoAI #AI #MysteryAIHypeTheater3000 #PeerTube #Podcast #Fediverse

2026-03-31 16:10:03 GMT

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@nprofile…dwqn This is my favourite underwhelming reply to almost everything.

2026-03-31 16:04:16 GMT

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@nprofile…4xpq @nprofile…mknl :awesome:

2026-03-30 04:53:14 GMT

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@nprofile…g2n5 @nprofile…xv93 @nprofile…yvcw :1000:

2026-03-30 03:10:07 GMT

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@nprofile…clrk @nprofile…yvcw :awesome: 🧡

2026-03-29 17:14:52 GMT

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@nprofile…yvcw Congratulations Avi! 🧡

2026-03-29 17:09:56 GMT

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@nprofile…4xpq 💛

2026-03-28 12:17:07 GMT

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@nprofile…t5xr @nprofile…dla5 What I mean is a solution that would practice data minimization, protect well the information it has to collect, and would not monetize this information with external partners (everywhere, not just in Europe). This would be privacy-respectful in the payment-processing world, compared to currently available solutions. Nothing will be anonymous, of course.

2026-03-28 11:54:41 GMT

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@nprofile…dla5 I don't mean anonymous. Anonymity and privacy are different concepts.
Of course, legal names and transaction information are necessary to collect for legal reasons. But, for example, facial prints aren't, copies of official ID by anyone else who isn't a bank aren't either, sharing this information to monetize it with commercial partners is entirely unnecessarily privacy-invasive.
There are many things that can make a payment processing solution more privacy-respectful, without being anonymous. Data minimization, and strict policies on access and sharing are key here.

2026-03-28 11:02:37 GMT

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@nprofile…lhv6 Pink please

2026-03-28 11:01:58 GMT

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@nprofile…aj8w @nprofile…2r9r I have lots of hopes for this project 👀
But also, I need something now, and I need something that accepts credit cards.

2026-03-28 10:57:10 GMT

We need a solution to process international payments that isn't an American fintech company or cryptocurrency and is privacy-respectful like yesterday.
Please 🙏

2026-03-27 04:25:29 GMT

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@nprofile…4xpq @nprofile…lklx @nprofile…k2mn 💛

2026-03-27 02:11:08 GMT

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@nprofile…lklx @nprofile…k2mn 💛

2026-03-27 01:41:13 GMT

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@nprofile…lz9j @nprofile…lklx Yay!! Congratulations! 🎉

2026-03-25 23:17:42 GMT

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@nprofile…g30f @nprofile…850x 💜💜

2026-03-24 23:12:03 GMT

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@nprofile…p5x7 @nprofile…r6ca Welcome to Mastodon Ben! :awesome: :mastodon:
I wrote this list of small tips for newcomers that you might find helpful: https://infosec.exchange/@Em0nM4stodon/109323504324459171

2026-03-24 14:57:58 GMT

Are you using Signal to conduct job interviews and work meetings? :signal: 👀
If yes, what do you like about it?
If not, why not?
#Signal #Privacy #Security

2026-03-24 14:32:59 GMT

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@nprofile…40zt @nprofile…lknd This is infringing so many privacy laws...

2026-03-23 21:54:56 GMT

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@nprofile…5gk6 This is the way 💚

2026-03-23 16:33:00 GMT

An excellent article by Jean-Christophe Bélisle-Pipon on OpenAI's reaction to the Tumbler Ridge tragedy:
OpenAI’s safety pledges in the wake of Tumbler Ridge aren’t AI regulation — they’re surveillance
https://theconversation.com/openais-safety-pledges-in-the-wake-of-tumbler-ridge-arent-ai-regulation-theyre-surveillance-278364
"True AI regulation asks whether a model might facilitate or amplify harmful ideation through its interaction patterns. It asks how the system is built, what it’s tested for and what obligations attach to its deployment.
The current arrangement asks none of these questions. Instead, it builds a pipeline from private AI interactions to law enforcement, administered by a corporation, governed by proprietary policy.
I call this the surveillance substitution: a governance vacuum gets filled not with democratic regulation, but with corporate surveillance of users. It is not regulation of AI. It is regulation of the people who use AI, conducted by the AI company itself, with the police as the endpoint."
#NoAi #AI #OpenAI #CanPoli

2026-03-23 15:18:40 GMT

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@nprofile…pzfr @nprofile…ulx7 Indeed, lobbyists are behind this: https://www.patrick-breyer.de/en/chat-control-eu-ombudsman-criticises-revolving-door-between-europol-and-chat-control-tech-lobbyist-thorn/

2026-03-23 15:14:34 GMT

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@nprofile…ulx7 This is unbelievable. They literally cannot take no for an answer 🙄

2026-03-22 21:10:05 GMT

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@nprofile…ag04 :ablobdj:

2026-03-22 20:23:22 GMT

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@nprofile…5yvf :blobheartcat:

2026-03-22 19:58:51 GMT

My 3 favorite music genres are:
• Punk music
• Metal music
• Steven Universe Remix music: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLHi2T2b45lpgWMxx2xrkug4_8AZ_7jVfb
#StevenUniverse #Music

2026-03-22 07:22:58 GMT

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@nprofile…4xpq Aww I see what you did there. That's amazing 🥰⭐️✨

2026-03-22 05:39:20 GMT

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@nprofile…4xpq 💛

2026-03-21 23:13:54 GMT

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@nprofile…h4nu Awww 😄🥰