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reclaimthenet 3 weeks ago
New Jersey wants to set the hours when an app is allowed to send your child a notification. Nothing between 10pm and 6am, nothing between 8am and 4pm on school days. Whether a phone can buzz on a Saturday night used to be a question for parents. New Jersey thinks it's a question for the state.
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New Jersey Kids Code Act Draws First Amendment Warning
The statute never says age verification. It just makes not knowing expensive enough that everyone will find out.
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reclaimthenet 3 weeks ago
Flock told Norman's council the town would attract criminals if it didn't buy license plate readers. The council voted it down anyway. Then the county sheriff signed a $60,000 renewal for 20 cameras and put them in regardless.
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Flock Cameras Come to Norman, Despite Council Rejection
The council controls the police department. It does not control the sheriff, the commissioners, or the homeowners association on the other side of ...
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reclaimthenet 3 weeks ago
California published its proposed rules for proving you're not a child. Among the approved methods: facial analysis, hand-gesture or gait patterns, vocal analysis, or a government ID. That could mean a camera at your face, a microphone at your voice, or uploading a government ID just to speak online. The state is facing a legal challenge.
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California Digital ID Age Law Faces New Platform Appeal
The regulations were drafted while the constitutional question was still open, which tells you something about how confident the state is.
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reclaimthenet 3 weeks ago
Gallego's new bill tells platforms to take "reasonable steps" to work out which users are children. It never says how. The duty kicks in when a platform "knows or should know" a user is under 16, and there's no way to know that without carding everyone...
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Ruben Gallego Social Media Bill Gives FTC Authority Over Age Verification Methods
The bill asks platforms to know something that the only way it can know is through ID checks.
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reclaimthenet 3 weeks ago
An "elite" UK police squad has spent six months watching social media posts. 106 posts referred to local forces but half of them were in June alone, the month public anger at the police ran hottest. They won't say which posts and they never tell the person they flagged.
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Britain's Elite Speech Monitoring Squad Has Flagged 106 Posts
The National Internet Intelligence Investigations team flagged 106 social media posts, half of them in June alone.
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reclaimthenet 3 weeks ago
France's highest court just killed the under-15 social media ban. The problem was never the kids. It was that to prove a user isn't 15, every adult in France has to prove they aren't. The Constitutional Council called that a disproportionate hit to free expression with no safeguards for private life. It was blocked three weeks before it took effect. Macron has already ordered a rewrite.
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France's Top Court Kills the Under-15 Social Media Ban
Macron wanted to export the model around the world. His own constitutional court sent it back with notes.
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reclaimthenet 3 weeks ago
From late August, adults in Australia must hand over a face scan or a passport to buy an 18+ game on Xbox. Refuse and your account is locked out. Australia's under-16 social media ban left 85% of 12 to 15 year olds still logged on. It doesn't stop savvy kids. It just collects data on adults.
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Xbox Age Checks Hit Australian Adults Buying 18+ Games
Every adult hands over a face or a document, and the children the rule is aimed are are still playing.
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reclaimthenet 3 weeks ago
Brazil just signed a law that treats using a VPN as an aggravating factor in some crimes, and lets police pull your connection data with no warrant, just a judge notified 48 hours later. At the signing ceremony, the First Lady demanded Discord be taken offline. She holds no office.
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Brazil Law Makes VPN Use an Aggravating Factor in Crimes as the First Lady Pushes For a Discord Ban
Brazil's virtual patrol rule also lets police pull connection data with no warrant.
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reclaimthenet 0 months ago
South Korea's amended Network Act lets courts punish "false or manipulated information." The law doesn't define what that phrase means. Publishers cannot tell in advance which post is legal, so the safe move is to delete on suspicion. US lawmakers have questions about what that means for American platforms...
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America Presses South Korea on "False Information" Law
The offense goes undefined, so the cheapest way to comply is to delete every post a court might someday dislike.
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