Privacy gets treated like a nuisance right up until the day you need it most.
This week's privacy roundup is a bleak one: Microsoft's account suspensions hit key security tools like WireGuard and VeraCrypt, while employers are increasingly being accused of using personal data to work out the lowest wage you'll accept. That is the same old story in a new form: more control for platforms, less power for ordinary people.
At some point, we need to ask whether modern tech is being built for user safety, or for bureaucracy, profiling, and lock-in.
How much more "security theatre" are people expected to tolerate before they push back?
https://streamyard.com/watch/G8dAKAEzh5ff
#Privacy #Security #DigitalRights #WireGuard #VeraCrypt #Microsoft #Surveillance #DataPrivacy #SelfSovereignty
beitmenotyou1 / Michael J Burgess
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