PrivacyLx joins the Reclaim Your Face campaign

The Reclaim Your Face Campaign It’s a European Citizens’s Initiative (petition) with the goal of banning biometric mass surveillance. You can read more about it and sign it at reclaimyourface.eu Signature Collection Our team will be going to the streets in Lisbon to collect signatures. And we’ve already started! On the 25th of April (freedom day in Portugal) we walked along Restauradores collecting signatures with the following poster:

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Community Gatherings on Wednesdays

Dear PrivacyLxers, We’ll be trying out a weekly community discussion online in our chat. Would you like to bring a topic for discussion? Are you concerned with your digital footprint or/and want to protect your privacy online (and offline)? Then you have a good reason to join us on our weekly gathering, where we will be having lively discussions and Q&A on security, privacy, anonymity and freedom of expression online.

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Notice: Mandatory use of App Stayaway

On the 14th day of this month, the Government presented a bill that imposes the use of the COVID Stayaway application. This statement contextualizes the problem in a logic of privacy and digital sovereignty. The application fails in several domains, but without wanting to go into detail of a technical, social or legal nature - in this short communication PrivacyLx advocates to not this application and recommends reading the excellent work that has been conducted by the D3 Association, either through the “Comunicado sobre a Stayaway” or through their website dedicated to the subject.

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