In Mexico 🇲🇽, Sheinbaum's government is pushing through Congress sweeping legal reforms that will establish mass identification and surveillance systems of the population. Here is a thread 🧵 summarizing the scope and reach of these reforms:

It’s clear that trans people face unique, advanced, and persistent threats—online and off. Here are some strategies for resisting the tech-enabled violence that trans people face.

I was encouraged to see the #G7 Leaders' Statement on Transnational Repression which also calls out mitigating harms around mercenary spyware 👇🇨🇦 www.pm.gc.ca/en/news/stat...

NEW today from myself @citizenlab.ca, on the unspoken implications of Canada's Bill C-2 for data-sharing with the United States and other foreign countries: citizenlab.ca/2025/06/a-pr...

Calling all journalists covering the US-MX border and immigration: we're teaming up with @freedom.press , @tcij.org g‬, and ACOS Alliance to offer dedicated security workshops in Albuquerque and El Paso in August. Apply here! eff.org/jstapp

In April, President Trump and Salvadoran President Bukele shook hands in the Oval Office to celebrate a deal to ship gang members to the notorious CECOT prison. But a new ProPublica investigation found there’s more to the story. 🧵👇

NEW @citizenlab.ca report confirms the targeting of two more journalist with #Paragon spyware in the context of 🇮🇹 Details here: citizenlab.ca/2025/06/firs... @billmarczak.org @jsrailton.bsky.social

NEW REPORT: Our forensic analysis confirms ✅ two more European journalists targeted with Paragon's Graphite spyware. Read it here: citizenlab.ca/2025/06/firs...

Confidential records obtained by WIRED & @propertyofthepeople.org show the ag industry deploying moles to infiltrate activist meetings, while functionally serving as FBI informants, in a shadow campaign to brand the animal rights movement America's biggest bioterrorism threat. My latest @wired.com:

BREAKING: jury awards massive $167 million in punitive damages against spyware company NSO Group. Precedent-setting win against notorious #Pegasus spyware maker. Very consequential for victims to see this. Congratulations to #WhatsApp on sticking this case through since 2019. Some thoughts 1/

In the coming weeks, I will be leaving my position as Executive Director of @r3d.mx . I do so with enormous satisfaction and pride, having dedicated 11 years to collectively building a transcendental organization for the defense of human rights in Mexico and the region.

A LOT of folks in the US have moved away from texts, WhatsApp, iMessage, etc. to Signal. That’s a good thing. Also - Signal is a non-profit. If you’re relying on @signal.org to have your back, make sure you have their back too. Go donate and get your friends to do so as well! signal.org/donate/

The U.S. trains them, arms them, pays them as intelligence assets, launders their money, condecorates them, then prosecutes them or, as Trump did, let them go, but always, uses their example to denounce Mexico’s corruption while obscuring its own. www.nytimes.com/2022/12/08/m...

As someone who has reported on AI for 7 years and covered China tech as well, I think the biggest lesson to be drawn from DeepSeek is the huge cracks it illustrates with the current dominant paradigm of AI development. A long thread. 1/

Europe wants to save democracy from the techno-authoritarians by *checks notes twice because can't believe this level of idiocy* ending anonymity and encryption online to facilitate surveillance.

We need #encryption backdoors to 'enforce' democracy says Europol chief. Says anonymity "not a fundamental right" I disagree. Giving governments total access to private communications lays the technical groundwork for undermining democracy 1/ www.ft.com/content/1e6a...

Labeling calls for mercy on the most vulnerable people as hate speech is the type of newspeak we can expect from the “censorship in the name of free speech” policies in X, Meta and TikTok moving forward.

Free speech restored bigly

Decentralized social media Is the only alternative to the Tech Oligarchy 🔗 www.404media.co/decentralize...

Nazis: "that's a nazi salute" Historians: "that's a nazi salute" Average person: "that's a nazi salute" The Media: "Elon Musk makes odd gesture throwing his heart to the crowd."

Normalization of fascist symbols goes like this: 1. "It wasn´t a nazi salute" 2. "I'm just doing it to own the libs" 3. "Heil Trump" We might reach number 3 before midnight.

If drug cartels are designated as terrorist organizations: Are U.S. gun vendors, businesses, and banks that launder cartel's money and U.S. drug consumers going to be labeled as persons providing material support/resources to FTOs? Will Mexico be designated as a "State sponsor of terrorism"?

Banning TikTok wasn’t about protecting privacy. Restoring TikTok wasn’t about free speech. The problem for the U.S. empire wasn’t the tool, it was about who owns it. It was always about having power over a magnificent surveillance and censorship tool. Textbook fascism.

Every authoritarian in the world is taking note that you can shut down entire applications by claiming "national security concerns" without even having to entertain any freedom of expression analysis.

Nobody spies on internet users but me! and maybe the boy!

The new TikTok ban: This decision will not help protect Americans from having their data collected by untold other platforms & digital services. Manipulation is everywhere. This merely limits avenues of expression & sets up a potential buyer to adapt TikTok in troubling ways as Musk did w/ Twitter.

To all reporters covering the TikTok ban: Please ask the US State Department for comment. How does it feel about the US shutting down an online service, action that State has rightfully called out as fundamentally undemocratic when other nations do it.

The fact-checking change was maybe the 4th or 5th scariest thing about Zuck’s announcement. Or 6th or 7th or 8th. It depends how you count.

(5) Then there's Latin America. If Z wants more Lat Am countries to start (a) acting like Brazil or (b) proudly and publicly advancing terrible legislation designed to punish him, this is a good way to start that fight. The biggest losers in that scenario will be Latin American Internet users.

What a stupid fucking timeline we live in.

Meta's platforms simply are not safe spaces for LGBTQ+ people (if they ever were). I don't think it is morally justifiable to continue to use those platforms when so clearly and viciously Meta has declared open season for LGBTQ+ abuse. This is beyond tolerance. Meta is encouraging abuse.

Facebook is censoring 404 Media stories about Facebook's censorship 🔗 www.404media.co/facebook-is-...

We will never have free speech OR safety for marginalized people on platforms owned and controlled by billionaires & monopolists. My cranky ass opinion is we should spend less time worrying about what Zuck says and more time building a movement to dismantle Big Tech & build the Internet we need

Meta's policy changes should be denounced, not only because they are a disgraceful display of obedience to Trump but primarily because of how they will harm LGBT+, PoC, and other populations. But I hope some reflection is given on how defending and pushing for censorship paved the way for this.

BREAKING: court finds NSO Group liable for #Pegasus hacking of #WhatsApp users. Big win for spyware victims. Big loss for NSO. Bad time to be a spyware company. Landmark case. Huge implications. 1/ 🧵

The court just handed WhatsApp a major win in the case against NSO Group ⚖️ 🎉 NSO was found liable under federal #CFAA & state law for #Pegasus hacking through WhatsApp's servers. As a lawyer working on surveillance, let me break down the ruling 🧵 1/ storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...

The Helpline team has been my safety net. I am proud of the work we do to support others (and each other) against the prevalent web of tech-enabled abuse and oppression. @fightforthefuture.org’s @evangreer.bsky.social stood up for all of us. We show up in solidarity. Our union is our strength 👁️👇

FYI @daphnek.bsky.social

Mexico's Supreme Court with another judgment rejecting the "right to be forgotten" doctrine and intermediary liability. It also established an interesting precedent on jurisdiction and applicability of Mexican data protection laws to foreign platforms. r3d.mx/2024/12/04/s...

📢NEW: 'Open' AI systems aren't open. The vague term, combined w frothy AI hype is (mis)shaping policy & practice, assuming 'open source' AI democratizes access & addresses power concentration. It doesn't. @smw.bsky.social, @davidthewid.bsky.social & I correct the record👇 nature.com/articles/s41...

amid totally predictable cyber-attack, U.S. government tells Americans to use encrypted messaging apps that U.S. government has been demonizing and trying to outlaw for years www.nbcnews.com/tech/securit...

NEW: phone tapping to identify sources violated Hungarian journalist's rights. European Court of Human Rights rules 🇭🇺 #Hungary: ☑️ Infringed Right to Privacy & Freedom of Expression. ☑️Lacked proper surveillance oversight & legal remedies. 🇭🇺Gov ordered to pay compensation, legal costs.👇

This severely damages the credibility of US efforts to curtail mercenary spyware. Worse, it is likely the Trump admin will exploit this to lift sanctions and bans, and to justify supporting digital authoritarianism by his right-wing allies around the world.

This is a really good response to a lot of the questions about both present and future Bluesky that people keep asking me. I'm going to write something soon about some of this too, but this is great for folks who keep raising the "but won't it turn evil" question...