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In Praise of #Tor: Why You Should Support and Use Tor
https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/04/30/in-praise-of-tor/
Many people have heard of Tor in the media, but despite its long history of protecting the free internet, most consider it a niche tool and have never ventured to try it themselves.
In reality, Tor is easy to use for anyone. It helps not only journalists and activists, but anybody who seeks greater privacy online or access to information regardless of location.
What is Tor exactly? How can Tor help you? And why is it such an important tool? Staff writer @Em0nM4stodon explains in the latest Privacy Guides article: https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/04/30/in-praise-of-tor/
@PrivacyDigest
@juliewebgirl Because they know Seattle will kick them to Texas. Read: They're Afraid.
#Police officers who joined #Jan6 rally ask #SupremeCourt for #anonymity
Four officers sued to prevent the disclosure of Seattle’s investigation into their attendance at the pro-Trump ‘Stop the Steal’ rally on Jan. 6, 2021.
#Trump #seattle #stopthesteal #j6 #maga #scotus
We all know services that require authentication can correlate your activity on that service with your account. This becomes particularly dangerous when that account is linked with payment information that could potentially link back to your real identity.
It doesn't have to be this way though: The Privacy Pass protocol presents a path forward for "blind" authentication, if more services adopt it. Our team member @fria walks us through how it works:
https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/04/21/privacy-pass/
"It’s a dangerous time for protest rights in the UK. The government has introduced a bill that would make it a criminal offence to conceal your identity at a protest.
The crime and policing bill establishes an offence if a person conceals their identity within a specifically designated area in England or Wales. That is, an area where the police believe that a protest is taking place, or is likely to take place, and that involves, or might involve, the “commission of offences” (people breaking the law).
These powers are preemptive and vague – how is the “likelihood” of a protest or offences determined? What specific “offences” does the bill refer to? What safeguards exist? Ultimately, the bill does not appear to place any real limits on the degree of discretion extended to the police.
The passage of this bill would have significant implications for the right to anonymity in public places. It is unparalleled among liberal democratic states, bringing UK practice into line with Russia, Hungary and China."
Fedi people with a website who are also pseudonymous, what did/do you use to register your domain name(s)?
I would like to be able to 1. pay anonymously, preferably using a debit card through a blind signature or zero-knowledge proof mechanism as privacy-friendly crypto is hard to find, and 2. not have to register using an email address, which again are not easy to get pseudonymously/anonymously.
Boosts appreciated.
"Anonymity on the internet should be banned."
Do we really want to live in a world where every opinion must be permanently tied to our real-world identity, etched in stone for judgment, even as we grow and evolve? Anonymity protects our ability to change, learn, and stay free.
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Polish government has suggested new EU rules to ban the #anonymous purchase of #prepaid #SIMcards.
“The main threat associated with prepaid SIM cards is #anonymity,” says a document obtained by @statewatch and one cannot make one's disdain for #humanrights any clearer.
Extensive research has found no evidence that bans on anonymous purchases of SIM cards contribute to reducing #crime.
Ah, here it is, in the text of the report;
"The Bank of England and HM
Treasury note in their 2023 Consultation Paper that a digital pound would not be anonymous
because, 'just like bank accounts, the ability to identify and verify users is necessary to prevent
financial crime'.”
Chapter 2.1, Enhancing the Privacy
of a Digital Pound
https://dci.mit.edu/enhancing-the-privacy-of-a-digital-pound
So what they're contemplating is only as private as a bank transfer, not as private as cash.
Stop Confusing Privacy & Anonymity (and Security) by @privacyguides
Update. "SAFE-Track: Secure Anonymous Federal Evidence, Data and Analysis Tracking"
https://datafoundation.org/pages/safetrack
"The Data Foundation's SAFE-Track portal provides a secure, encrypted channel for documenting changes to federal evidence and #data activities. As a trusted, non-partisan authority on government data and evidence policy, the #DataFoundation maintains this platform to systematically understand and analyze impacts on America's evidence infrastructure…SAFE-Track enables confidential reporting through:
* Complete #anonymity for submissions
* End-to-end #encryption of all data
* No requirement for email or personal identification
* Option for secure follow-up communication through anonymous conversation codes
* Protections against collection of personally identifiable information."