Ron Deibert, the director of Citizen Lab, one of the most prominent organizations investigating government spyware abuses, is sounding the alarm to the cybersecurity community and asking them to step up and join the fight against authoritarianism.
"With civil society under attack, the very foundations of our country " our ability to hold the government accountable, to be free to dissent and debate, to support vulnerable communities " are also threatened."
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" Ron Deibert (@rondeibert.bsky.social) Aug 7, 2025 at 12:23 AM
We are at that point of the dictatorial slide that CEOs of corporations -- Tim Cook of Apple being the latest -- obsequiously bearing gifts of gold for the Great Leader.
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" Ron Deibert (@rondeibert.bsky.social) Aug 8, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Students have been called to the office -- and even arrested -- for AI surveillance false alarms
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... Lesley Mathis knows what her daughter said was wrong. But she never expected the 13-year-old girl would get arrested for it.
The teenage girl made an offensive joke while chatting online with her classmates, triggering the school's surveillance software.
Before the morning was even over, the Tennessee eighth grader was under arrest. She was interrogated, strip-searched and spent the night in a jail cell, her mother says. ...
"It made me feel like, is this the America we live in?" Mathis said of her daughter's arrest. "And it was this stupid, stupid technology that is just going through picking up random words and not looking at context." ...
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