npub1ukq5...s4c6 1 month ago

Spain’s HODIO Program to Monitor and Rank Social Media Platforms on “Hate Speech”

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Spain's HODIO Program to Monitor and Rank Social Media Platforms on "Hate Speech"

Spain's government will now grade tech companies on speech removal twice a year, with the same officials defining what counts as hate setting ...

npub1ukq5...s4c6 1 month ago

UK Speech Regulator Chief Melanie Dawes Says US Free Speech Lawsuits Are “a Sign That We’re Having the Impact We Want”

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UK Speech Regulator Chief Melanie Dawes Says US Free Speech Lawsuits Are "a Sign That We're Having the Impact We Want"

The woman tasked with policing the internet has decided that getting sued across the Atlantic isn't a setback, it's a performance review.

npub1ukq5...s4c6 1 month ago

Australia VPN Boom as “Age Verification” Law Takes Effect

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Australia VPN Boom as "Age Verification" Law Takes Effect

The law successfully drove millions of Australians to VPNs and unregulated sites.

npub1ukq5...s4c6 1 month ago

New Zealand Parliamentary Committee Recommends Social Media Ban for Under-16s

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New Zealand Parliamentary Committee Recommends Social Media Ban for Under-16s

Another country is moving toward getting in line with the agenda.

npub1ukq5...s4c6 1 month ago

UK Parliament Plans ISP Blocking and Age Verification Powers

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UK Parliament Plans ISP Blocking and Age Verification Powers

The bill's child protection framing obscures what it actually creates: a legal architecture for government-controlled internet access that has...

npub1ukq5...s4c6 1 month ago

UK Lords Back Facial Recognition Overreach, Protest Crackdown Powers

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UK Lords Back Facial Recognition Overreach, Protest Crackdown Powers

The DVLA was built to check whether people can drive, and the Lords just voted to turn it into the largest real-name face recognition database the ...

npub1ukq5...s4c6 1 month ago

How Grok’s Football Roasts Put X in the Crosshairs of Britain’s Online Censorship Law

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How Grok's Football Roasts Put X in the Crosshairs of Britain's Online Censorship Law

The episode handed British regulators the pretext they'd been waiting for to wire censorship directly into the software itself.

npub1ukq5...s4c6 2 months ago

Security Researchers Warn Age Verification Laws Are Building a Global Surveillance System

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Security Researchers Warn Age Verification Laws Are Building a Global Surveillance System

The people who spent their careers building the security systems governments want to exploit for age verification have finally had enough.

npub1ukq5...s4c6 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 months ago

Republican Lawmakers Demand Answers on UK’s iCloud Encryption Backdoor Order

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Republican Lawmakers Demand Answers on UK's iCloud Encryption Backdoor Order

Britain's demand that Apple build a backdoor for everyone on earth, then quietly reframe it as a domestic matter after Washington pushed back,...

npub1ukq5...s4c6 2 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 2 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 2 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 2 months ago

FBI Wins Court Ruling to Keep Twitter Payments Secret

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FBI Wins Court Ruling to Keep Twitter Payments Secret

A federal judge just ruled that the public can't know exactly how much the FBI paid Twitter during the years it was also telling Twitter which...

npub1ukq5...s4c6 2 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 2 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 2 months ago

Germany’s CDU Pushes Real-Name Social Media Mandate and ID Checks

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Germany's CDU Pushes Real-Name Social Media Mandate and ID Checks

The party could ask Germans to show their papers before they can post a tweet.

npub1ukq5...s4c6 2 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.