Not your intelligence, not your rights.

No matter how much of your own intelligence goes into a document, if #Claude touched it, it comes out marked as AI generated since August 2.

Consequences for small NGOs using AI to cut costs on design and translation: a witness statement translated into English, a testimony de-identified to protect the source, a report an exiled activist ran through Claude to fix their grammar, all carry the same mark as “fabricated content”.

Once detection tools are public, “this NGO report is AI-generated” becomes the cheapest discrediting line available to the governments we document. The honest caveats in Anthropic’s small print will not travel with the accusation.

European Commission declared #Europe a place for innovation. This is not the way to do it….

Would I stop using AI to defend human rights?

No. Dictators and bad actors already use every tool available to repress people.

We should be able to use every tool available to protect them.

Safe nowhere.

Authoritarian regimes learned how to abuse FATF-based #AML rules, cybersecurity law, MLATs and #INTERPOL to freeze your accounts, harvest your data and end your relationships with banks and donors, on American and European soil.

It was done to me: serving #Kazakh police officers, posing as private victims, filed a complaint in a Belgian court to obtain my passport records, travel data, including Schengen crossings, hotel bills in Miami and Washington, bank movements and private emails.

We describe how #Bitcoin privacy payments and other encrypted tools play crucial role as remedies against transnational financial repression.

Endlessly grateful to Hoover Institution for lighting this up. Read our article with @nprofile1q... 👇🏻

https://www.thefreedomfrequency.org/p/the-rise-of-transnational-financial

If we’re doing security checkups in Bitcoin self-custody, we need to cover everything: cold and hot wallets, multi-signature setups, all of it.

We can’t audit one storage type and leave the rest for later. AI-driven attacks won’t wait for us to finish patching one vulnerability before moving to the next.

Many people are offline, not following X or Nostr discussions. Please check your contact lists and make the effort to reach everyone in the bitcoin space.

Also, telling people to use such platforms as GoFundMe after a bitcoin hack is dangerous advice. GoFundMe will freeze accounts after a few donations once they see funds are being raised in connection with bitcoin / hack attacks. You are sending people into a wall.

@ODFoundation take our responsibility to inform our network of activists, where bitcoin is the only financial tool they have. But we also live in a different reality from most of the bitcoin community. A hot wallet with a small amount is our everything.

We need a coordinated response - develop clear instructions on what we can actually advise, reflecting this new reality where AI systems are testing us endlessly.

With the Digital ID framework, the Digital Euro, and Chat Control all moving toward implementation, the question 'what happens when the state turns off your money?' is no longer theoretical for any EU resident or entity.

Are you ready to fight back for your rights?

Let's meet at @BTCHEL 25.-26. SEPTEMBER in September!

Addressing the weaponization of INTERPOL:

3/3 This is where your voice can make a difference in protecting people from INTERPOL abuse.

As constituents, lawyers, civil society, privacy specialists and people who have been victims of INTERPOL’s abuse, we should jointly push for the reform.

France holds the Presidency of INTERPOL's Executive Committee. The US, Germany and Canada also sit on it — four of the thirteen members of the body that supervises the General Secretariat.

These are the states with a direct hand in INTERPOL's governance. They are the ones who can turn the resolution's recommendations into protection and accountability.

Safeguards that depend on the good faith of the requesting state are not safeguards. Notification and published statistics work regardless of who issues the notice.

In the next posts we will go through the remedies and accountability measures the OSCE PA proposes. If you want to support this advocacy — now is the moment. Join us!

TRANSNATIONAL FINANCIAL REPRESSION: WHAT THE OSCE PA IS ASKING FOR

1/3 Close to vacation time, the European Commission is pushing on Chat Control and age verification — measures that erode the privacy of communication and of access to the internet, and put citizens and entities in the EU at serious risk.

At the same time, parliamentarians across the transatlantic space are calling for something the EU has not done: a proper assessment of how third countries weaponise INTERPOL, AML/CFT and cybersecurity tools against citizens and entities in the West.

These two things cannot be separated. Every mechanism built to see more of what people do gets abused, eventually, by states or their proxies that mean them harm.

For the first time in the transatlantic space, an OSCE PA resolution defines who the victims of transnational financial repression actually are. Not only civil society and diaspora — but entrepreneurs, donors, judges, MPs, scientists, and officials of the EU and NATO.

The resolution says an attack on any of these categories has to be treated as an attack on the democratic, economic and security architecture of the OSCE area as a whole.

It also calls for neutral regulatory language on privacy-preserving tools. AML/CFT and cybersecurity frameworks should describe end-to-end encryption, secure messaging, donation platforms ensuring donor privacy, digital payment tools and VPNs in terms respectful of fundamental rights — and must not treat the use of these tools as an intrinsic indicator of suspicious or criminal activity. Overbroad application of international cooperation mechanisms hits journalists, donors and human rights defenders who rely on them legitimately, for their own security.

As a victim of transnational financial repression and president of the Open Dialogue Foundation I'm very grateful for OSCE PA and Mauro Del Barba for introducing this important reporm.