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Cloudflare Appeals €14 Million AGCOM Fine, Challenges Italy’s Piracy Shield as Illegal Censorship System

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Cloudflare Fights Italy's Piracy Shield Censorship

Blocking a Ukrainian education portal and killing Google Drive for 12 hours is what happens when private media companies get to shut down the inter...

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UK Regulator Ofcom Has Fined 4chan £520,000 Under a Law That Doesn’t Apply in the US

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Ofcom Has Fined 4chan £520,000 Under a Law That Doesn't Apply in the US

The regulator issued a £520,000 fine; the lawyer replied with a picture of a hamster.

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Spain Fines ID Tool Yoti for Privacy Violations in Biometric ID App

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Spain Fines ID Tool Yoti for Privacy Violations in Biometric ID App

The six-month deadline to fix the consent screens and retention logs is the least interesting part of a ruling that quietly confirms governments ar...

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Brazil Launches Mandatory Age Verification Law for Online Platforms

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Brazil Launches Mandatory Age Verification Law for Online Platforms

Brazil built a national age verification system, called it child protection, and buried the surveillance infrastructure in the footnotes.

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The FISA Surveillance Tool Is Up for Renewal, and the SAVE Act Is Riding Shotgun

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The FISA Surveillance Tool Is Up for Renewal, and the SAVE Act Is Riding Shotgun

Modest but meaningful surveillance reforms, warrant requirements, parallel construction limits, may die on the vine if they stay hitched to a bill ...

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Britain’s Business Registry Left Director Data Wide Open — Yet the Government Is Still Building a National Digital ID

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Britain's Business Registry Left Director Data Wide Open — Yet the Government Is Still Building a National Digital ID

The system that just leaked directors' home addresses through a back button is also the one the UK government plans to store biometric data in.

reclaimthenet 3 months ago

Meta is Ending Instagram Direct Message End-to-End Encryption

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Meta is Ending Instagram Direct Message End-to-End Encryption

Starting May 8, every Instagram DM becomes readable by the same company that sells ads against everything else you do on the platform.

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Canada’s Bill C-22 Mandates Mass Metadata Surveillance of Canadians

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Canada's Bill C-22 Mandates Mass Metadata Surveillance of Canadians

The government insists it isn't surveilling ordinary Canadians; it's just requiring every company to store their location data, device in...

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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”

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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.

reclaimthenet 3 months 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.

reclaimthenet 3 months ago

UK Government’s Digital ID System Could Grant Police Access to Facial Recognition Database

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UK Government's Digital ID System Could Grant Police Access to Facial Recognition Database

A system the government is describing as a digital convenience tool could, under legislation its own consultation proposed, become searchable by po...

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BC Tribunal Clears Student of “Hate Speech” Charge Over COVID-19 Video

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BC Tribunal Clears Student of "Hate Speech" Charge Over COVID-19 Video

A student who shared a pandemic video in a private chat walked away cleared, with a tribunal drawing a line that offended feelings and illegal disc...

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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.

reclaimthenet 3 months 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...

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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 ...

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Microsoft Copilot Update Hijacks Default Browser Links

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Microsoft Copilot Update Hijacks Default Browser Links

Microsoft's new "context preservation" keeps you from losing the thread of your conversation and keeps you inside Microsoft's browser eng...

reclaimthenet 3 months 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.

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House Committee Passes Child “Safety” Bills That Push National Age Verification Surveillance

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House Committee Passes Child “Safety” Bills That Push National Age Verification Surveillance

The bills arrive dressed as child protection but leave behind a mandate to build the largest ID grab in American consumer history.

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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.

reclaimthenet 3 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.