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UK Government to Launch PR Campaign Undermining End-to-End Encryption

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Rolling Stone is reporting that the UK government has hired the M&C Saatchi advertising agency to launch an anti-encryption advertising campaign. Presumably they’ll lean heavily on the “think of the children!” rhetoric we’re seeing in this current wave of the crypto wars. The technical eavesdropping mechanisms …

Banning Surveillance-Based Advertising

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The Norwegian Consumer Council just published a fantastic new report: “ Time to Ban Surveillance-Based Advertising. ” From the Introduction: The challenges caused and entrenched by surveillance-based advertising include, but are not limited to: privacy and data protection infringements opaque business models manipulation and discrimination at scale fraud and other criminal …