npub1ukq5...s4c6 4 months ago

UK Government Secretly Tracked 25 Million People as Potential EV Owners

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UK Government Secretly Tracked 25 Million People as Potential EV Owners

Two years of surveillance, £600,000 spent, and the program ended not because anyone asked if it was wrong, but because the data was garbage.

npub1ukq5...s4c6 4 months ago

California Law Forces Age-Tracking Into Every Operating System by 2027

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California Law Forces Age-Tracking Into Every Operating System by 2027

In a different timeline, wiring an age-surveillance layer into the boot sequence of every computing device in California is an idea that would have...

npub1ukq5...s4c6 4 months ago

A UK Labour Minister Just Resigned Over a Secret Plot to Silence Journalists Using a Spy Agency

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A UK Labour Minister Just Resigned Over a Secret Plot to Silence Journalists Using a Spy Agency

Simons was accused of running a thinktank dedicated to fighting "disinformation," then used a government intelligence body to spread it.

npub1ukq5...s4c6 4 months ago

Apple Rolls Out Age Verification to UK iPhone Users Under Online Safety Act

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iPhone Software Beta's UK Age Verification Screen Raises Questions

The screen Apple called an "error" revealed exactly how the company plans to use your credit history, account age, and payment data to decide what ...

npub1ukq5...s4c6 4 months ago

Apple Expands Age Checks to Australia, Brazil, Singapore, and US States

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Apple Expands Age Checks to Australia, Brazil, Singapore, and US States

The company selling privacy as a feature is now running age screening on 18+ app downloads without explaining what data makes that determination po...

npub1ukq5...s4c6 4 months ago

Russia’s FSB Charges Telegram Founder Pavel Durov with Aiding Terrorism

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Russia's FSB Charges Telegram Founder Pavel Durov with Aiding Terrorism

The man who outlasted a French arrest now faces a Russian prison threat from the country he left behind two decades ago.

npub1ukq5...s4c6 4 months ago

Newsom Backs Teen Social Media Ban After Daughter’s Birthday Party Phone Moment

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Newsom Backs Teen Social Media Ban After Daughter's Birthday Party Phone Moment

The governor who couldn't bring himself to say "put the phones down" at his own daughter's party is now asking the state to say it for ev...

npub1ukq5...s4c6 4 months ago

Zuckerberg’s “Fix” for Child Safety Could End Anonymous Internet Access for Everyone

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Zuckerberg’s “Fix” for Child Safety Could End Anonymous Internet Access for Everyone

Zuckerberg spent five hours defending Instagram's design choices, and walked out having handed legislators and regulators their preferred blue...

npub1ukq5...s4c6 4 months ago

Berlin Court Orders X to Hand Over Hungarian Election Data to Researchers

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Berlin Court Orders X to Hand Over Hungarian Election Data to Researchers

The court gave researchers what they asked for, but the same institution that fined X for refusing is also the largest funder of the group that sue...

npub1ukq5...s4c6 4 months ago

Spanish Court Orders NordVPN and Proton VPN to Block Piracy Streams

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Spanish Court Orders NordVPN and Proton VPN to Block Piracy Streams

The same blocking system that once took down Amazon, GitHub, and Cloudflare is now targeting the tools Spaniards used to get back online.

npub1ukq5...s4c6 4 months ago

Arizona Bill Would Require ID Checks to Use a Weather App

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Arizona Bill Would Require ID Checks to Use a Weather App

The bill would require parental permission or ID checks to open the calculator app that came with your phone.

npub1ukq5...s4c6 4 months ago

UK Regulator Ofcom Proposes Second Fine Against US Platform 4chan

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UK Regulator Ofcom Proposes Second Fine Against US Platform 4chan

Ofcom is pressing ahead with enforcement against a US platform over speech rules controversial even in Britain, as the platform argues in US federa...

npub1ukq5...s4c6 4 months ago

Brazil Charges Woman for 2020 Social Media Posts Under Court-Defined “Transphobia”

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Brazil Charges Woman for 2020 Social Media Posts Under Court-Defined “Transphobia”

The country's Supreme Court created the crime she's accused of without asking Congress, and now a veterinary student faces a decade in pr...

npub1ukq5...s4c6 4 months ago

Alabama Moves to Put a Gatekeeper on the App Store

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Alabama Moves to Put a Gatekeeper on the App Store

The Legislature waved it through, but HB161 locks mandatory age checks and parent-linked accounts into the foundation of Alabama’s app ecosystem.

npub1ukq5...s4c6 4 months ago

California Wants Gun Blueprints Treated Like Weapons

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California Wants Gun Blueprints Treated Like Weapons

California is betting that code and blueprints can be treated as contraband by not calling it speech.

npub1ukq5...s4c6 4 months ago

Gab Refuses to Pay Germany’s Fine, Challenges Cross-Border Online Censorship

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Gab Refuses to Pay Germany’s Fine, Challenges Cross-Border Online Censorship

Berlin treats the internet as annexed territory, asserting control wherever Germans can read a post.

npub1ukq5...s4c6 4 months ago

New York Budget Bill Proposes Mandatory File-Scanning Tech and In-Person Sales for 3D Printers

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New York Budget Bill Proposes Mandatory File-Scanning Tech and In-Person Sales for 3D Printers

A proposal framed as a fix for ghost guns changes how general-purpose machines are allowed to function in New York.

npub1ukq5...s4c6 4 months ago

EU Targets VPNs as Age Checks Expand

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EU Targets VPNs as Age Checks Expand

European policymakers are treating VPN adoption as behavior to be contained.

npub1ukq5...s4c6 4 months ago

Spanish PM Declares War on the Internet While Calling It Protection

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Spanish PM Declares War on the Internet While Calling It Protection

The new European coalition could make national internet laws a shared tool of control.

npub1ukq5...s4c6 5 months ago

Capitol Hill Hears the Cost of Speaking Freely Online in Europe

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Capitol Hill Hears the Cost of Speaking Freely Online in Europe

In Washington, they watched a continent trade liberty for censorship and call it progress. Now, that threat is coming across the Atlantic in the fo...