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OpenMedia  

The replacement for 2025's disastrous Bill C-2 is out - and just as broken! Bill C-22 still gives the Public Safety Minister broad powers to issue secret orders to any electronic service provider in Canada.

It isn't safe for privacy or rights, and cannot pass like this. We stopped broken Bill C-2, and we can stop this bill too if enough of us speak up.

Stay tuned for more updates in the next week!

openmedia.org/press/item/ottaw

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Senator Paula Simons🇨🇦  

I usually take time to craft and hone and practice my Senate speeches. But yesterday I rose unprepared and impromptu to address an amendment to Bill C-12, thru the eyes of an Albertan, haunted by the official xenophobia of my province. Turns out, if you’re angry enough, you don’t need notes. youtu.be/7U4evGu-jks?si=5YNOEJ #ableg #abpoli #cdnpoli #Alberta #immigration

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AltStore  

To celebrate us joining the fediverse, we're also launching 3 incredible fediverse-related apps on AltStore!

🐘 iPhanpy — a mobile Mastodon client by @fantinel

▶️ @peertube — a video hosting platform by @framasoft

➰ @loops — a short-form video app by @pixelfed

You can add them from our Add Source screen, and also follow them all on explore.alt.store

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Kevin Dominik Korte  

So, the Dutch government tried to whitewash Amazon's sovereign cloud offering, only to be called out so hard that they had to withdraw the paper.
#digitalsovereignty
nltimes.nl/2026/03/05/dutch-go

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Gina  

In case anyone was still under the assumption that US Big Tech and the Trump regime aren't one and the same:

The US has ordered its diplomats to lobby against EU attempts to regulate US tech companies 🚨

We need ethical open alternatives.

reuters.com/sustainability/boa

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Gina  

Or better yet, work with tech and consultancies that guarantee ethical behavior from the start. They're out there. Make it a condition in tech procurement.

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Torsten Grote  

The @torproject VPN app for Android is now available in @fdroidorg and therefore guaranteed to be fully Free Software, rebuilt from source.

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keverets  

It's insane how much AI bullshit one has to go through these days in order to find the answer to simple questions such as "how do I adjust the fill level on a korky fill valve?" from all major search engines.

The answer was m.youtube.com/watch?v=vqDi0Nbn

Was not on top 10 anywhere.

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Neil Brown  

People should be able to write software for Android, and distribute it outside Google's Play store, without having to:

* pay Google
* give government to with Google
* agree to Google terms and conditions

People should be able to install the software they want on their phone, from sources other than Google's Play store, without having to jump through Google-imposed hoops.

e.g. via F-Droid.

We've got until September this year to stop Google squeezing the open Android ecosystem.

keepandroidopen.org/

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Electronic Frontier Foundation  

Don’t be fooled by Ring’s latest attempt to make mass surveillance and real-time identification the new norm in our neighborhoods. eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/no-o

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