| Date | Title | Description |
| 18.09.2024 | Patents for software and genetic code could be revived by two bills in Congress | Enlarge / An image from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, where in 1874, the newest thing was not software or genetic compositions, but shutter fastenings from H.L. Norton.
Andrew Harrer/Bloomberg via Getty Images reader comments 96
The... |
| 16.09.2024 | Navigating the Digital Landscape: Education in the Age of Surveillance and Technology | In today’s world, technology is as ubiquitous as air. It surrounds us, shapes us, and, for better or worse, defines our future. Yet, as schools grapple with the dual challenges of integrating technology and ensuring student safety, a storm ... |
| 13.09.2024 | School Monitoring Software Sacrifices Student Privacy For Unproven Promises Of Safety | Imagine your search terms, key-strokes, private chats and photographs are being monitored every time they are sent. Millions of students across the country don’t have to imagine this deep surveillance of their most private communications: i... |
| 10.09.2024 | NO FAKES – A Dream For Lawyers, A Nightmare For Everyone Else | Performers and ordinary humans are increasingly concerned that they may be replaced or defamed by AI-generated imitations. We’re seeing a host of bills designed to address that concern – but every one just generates new problems. Case in po... |
| 10.09.2024 | Austrália planeja idade mínima para acessar redes sociais | Debate sobre saúde mental e redes sociais está em alta (Imagem: Robin Worrall / Unsplash)
O melhor da tecnologia está no nosso canal no WhatsApp
Entre Agora
O primeiro-ministro da Austrália, Anthony Albanese, diz que seu governo tem planos ... |
| 07.09.2024 | The Push for Transparency in Tech: Repair Groups Demand Device Lifespan Disclosure | In a world where technology evolves at lightning speed, consumers often find themselves in a bind. They purchase the latest gadgets, only to discover that their shiny new devices come with hidden expiration dates. This is not about food; it... |
| 07.09.2024 | Elon Musk dares the world to take on X | Elon Musk. Image: Grok, created using the prompt “
Brazil’s ban of X amid a fight with Elon Musk over disinformation on his prized social media site offers a cautionary message for other democracies trying to balance freedom of expression w... |
| 05.09.2024 | Repair Groups, Orgs Want FTC to Require Tech Companies to Disclose ‘Minimum Support Time’ for Devices | By Isaiah Richard
Published Sep 5, 2024 10:03AM EDT
Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard Share on Pocket
Many gadgets and smart devices have "expiration dates" where their creator... |
| 05.09.2024 | FTC urged to make smart devices say how long they will be supported | Enlarge / Spotify released the Car Thing to the general public in February 2022. It's bricking them in December.
Spotify reader comments 106
For some of us, few things are more infuriating than a gadget that stops working due to a software ... |
| 03.09.2024 | The Third Circuit’s Section 230 Decision In Anderson v. TikTok Is Pure Poppycock. | Last week, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Third Circuit concluded, in Anderson v. TikTok, that algorithmic recommendations aren’t protected by Section 230. Because they’re the platforms’ First Amendment-protected expression, the court re... |
| 02.09.2024 | EFF Assists Critic’s Fair Use Defense Over Kids’ Religious Program ‘Leak’ | Released Time for Religious Instruction (RTRI) is a mechanism in the United States which allows schoolchildren to receive religious instruction during school hours.
The law says that this can only take place off-site, with teachers and auth... |
| 20.08.2024 | Digital License Plates And The Deal That Never Had A Chance | Location and surveillance technology permeates the driving experience. Setting aside external technology like license plate readers, there is some form of internet-connected service or surveillance capability built into or on many cars, fro... |
| 20.08.2024 | Rolli Partners with Electronic Frontier Foundation to Champion Digital Rights and Innovation | Rolli logo
Electronic Frontier Foundation Logo
Rolli is excited to announce a partnership with Electronic Frontier Foundation, a premier nonprofit organization defending civil liberties in the digital age. SANTA MONICA, CA, UNITED STATES, A... |
| 19.08.2024 | Big Telecom Asks The Corrupt Supreme Court To Declare All State And Federal Broadband Consumer Protection Illegal. They Might Get Their Wish. | As we recently noted, telecom giants like AT&T and Comcast are having some very good luck using a corrupt, MAGA-heavy court to not only kill popular net neutrality rules — but to effectively lobotomize the FCC’s ability to protect broad... |
| 12.08.2024 | UN Delegates Cheer As They Vote To Approve Increased Surveillance Via Russia-Backed Cybercrime Treaty | For years now, the UN has been trying to strike a deal on a “Cybercrime Treaty.” As with nearly every attempt by the UN to craft treaties around internet regulation, it’s been a total mess. The concept, enabling countries to have agreed upo... |
| 06.08.2024 | Appeals Court Rejects DMCA Constitutional Challenge, Because Apparently Fair Use Means Nothing Good Will Ever Be Published | What began as an attempt to challenge the constitutionality of the DMCA’s terrible anticircumvention provision has now backfired. A court ruling will limit our rights to fair use and free expression in favor of Hollywood’s ability to lock s... |
| 05.08.2024 | Chrome’s Manifest V3, and its changes for ad blocking, are coming real soon | Enlarge
Ron Amadeo reader comments 84
Google Chrome's long, long project to implement a new browser extension platform is seemingly going to happen, for real, after six years of cautious movement.
One of the first ways people are seeing thi... |
| 04.08.2024 | Google Chrome предупреждает об отключении uBlock Origin | Google Chrome призывает пользователей uBlock Origin, обновившихся до последней версии браузера, перейти на другие блокировщики рекламы до отключения расширений Manifest v2.
Ведущий разработчик и сопровождающий uBlock Origin Рэймонд Хилл зая... |
| 02.08.2024 | New York State Community-Owned Broadband Networks Get $60 Million In Funding | We’ve mentioned a few times that there are more than $42 billion in broadband subsides about to drop in the laps of state leaders thanks to the 2021 infrastructure bill. Since the bill gives individual states leeway on how this money is spe... |
| 26.07.2024 | The Cookie Crumble: Google’s Sweet Reversal on Privacy**
** | ** In a world where digital footprints are as common as footprints in the sand, Google has decided to keep the tide of third-party cookies rolling. The tech giant announced a significant shift in its strategy, opting to retain these tiny da... |
| 25.07.2024 | Google’s Cookie Conundrum: A New Path in Privacy**
** | ** In a world where digital footprints are as common as dust on a bookshelf, Google has hit the brakes on its long-anticipated plan to eliminate third-party cookies in Chrome. This decision, announced in July 2024, marks a significant pivot... |
| 23.07.2024 | Google scraps plan to remove cookies from Chrome | Google is planning to keep third-party cookies in its Chrome browser, it said on Monday, after years of pledging to phase out the tiny packets of code meant to track users on the internet.
The major reversal follows concerns from advertiser... |
| 23.07.2024 | Congress Wants To Let Private Companies Own The Law | It sounds absolutely batty that there is a strong, bipartisan push to lock up aspects of our law behind copyright. But it’s happening. Even worse, the push is on to include this effort to lock up the law in the “must pass” National Defense ... |
| 23.07.2024 | Google halts its 4-plus-year plan to turn off tracking cookies by default in Chrome | Enlarge / Google, like most of us, has a hard time letting go of cookies. Most of us just haven't created a complex set of APIs and brokered deals across regulation and industry to hold onto the essential essence of cookies.
Getty Images re... |
| 22.07.2024 | Война YouTube против блокировщиков рекламы | У каждого человека есть важный монетизируемый ресурс — его внимание (то есть время осмысленной жизни). За внимание пользователя идёт борьба между интернет-компаниями, они придумывают всё новые трюки, чтобы завлечь и не отпустить юзера, а ег... |
| 22.07.2024 | Google Will No Longer Cancel Third-party cookies For Advertisers | Share
Tweet
Share
Share
Email
Google says it will no longer cancel and replace third-party cookies, a practice long used by advertisers for its internet browser, Chrome.
TakeAway Points: Google said that it will no longer disable third-part... |
| 18.07.2024 | Unconsented AI Training on YouTube Videos Raises Ethical Concerns and Sparks Debate | In a recent revelation that has sent shockwaves through the tech industry, it has come to light that major players such as Apple, Salesforce, and Anthropic have been training their AI models on tens of thousands of YouTube videos without th... |
| 17.07.2024 | Meta vai liberar dados para pesquisas sobre saúde mental no Instagram | Instagram é acusado de viciar crianças e adolescentes (Imagem: Vitor Pádua / Tecnoblog)
Saiba mais sobre Instagram no nosso canal no WhatsApp
Entre Agora
A Meta vai permitir que um grupos selecionados de pesquisadores acessem um pequeno con... |
| 04.07.2024 | Telegram's In-App Currency Gets Crypto Conversion Option | By Aldohn Domingo
Updated Jul 4, 2024 2:06AM EDT
Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard Share on Pocket
Telegram's Stars in-app currency is now more useful than ever. Creators can now share c... |
| 03.07.2024 | Telegram's 'Stars' Now Usable for Paid Content and Channel Promotions | By Quincy Jon
Published Jul 3, 2024 9:50AM EDT
Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard Share on Pocket
Telegram has expanded its premium content with its "Telegram Stars," an in-app ... |
| 26.06.2024 | В Telegram раскритиковали заявления экспертов по безопасности TechCrunch по поводу 30 инженеров и серверов в ОАЭ | 25 июня 2024 года представитель Telegram прокомментировал ресурсу «Код Дурова» материал издания TechCrunch с заявлением экспертов по безопасности по поводу всего 30 инженеров и серверов в ОАЭ. Он пояснил, что материал TechCrunch основан на ... |
| 25.06.2024 | Эксперты по безопасности считают, что штат из всего 30 инженеров в Telegram — тревожный знак для пользователей | В соцсетях обратили внимание на отрывок из апрельского интервью Такера Карлсона с Павлом Дуровым. В видео Дуров рассказывает Карлсону, что он единственный менеджер по продукту в компании и что у него работает всего «около 30 инженеров». Как... |
| 25.06.2024 | Telegram's Security Called Into Question Following Pavel Durov's Viral Interview | By Quincy Jon
Published Jun 25, 2024 10:15AM EDT
Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard Share on Pocket
An interview with Telegram founder Pavel Durov that went viral on social media raised a... |
| 20.06.2024 | Pornhub Blocks Access in 5 More States in the US Over Age Verification Laws | By Inno Flores
Published Jun 20, 2024 4:01AM EDT
Share on Facebook Share on Twitter Share on LinkedIn Share on Reddit Share on Flipboard Share on Pocket
In response to new laws requiring age verification on adult websites, Pornhub has decid... |
| 03.06.2024 | City Council Votes To Keep Paying ShotSpotter For Tech That’s Done Nothing To Make The City Safer | It appears Chicago’s city leaders (well… excluding the mayor, Brandon Johnson) aren’t afraid of spending nothing on do-nothing tech that even the city’s watchdog says is a waste of money. They’re not afraid to blow money on stuff that’s doi... |
| 03.06.2024 | Georgia Prosecutors Stoke Fears Over Use Of Encrypted Messengers And Tor | In an indictment against Defend the Atlanta Forest activists in Georgia, state prosecutors are citing use of encrypted communications to fearmonger. Alleging the defendants—which include journalists and lawyers, in addition to activists—in ... |
| 31.05.2024 | Google Chrome’s plan to limit ad blocking extensions kicks off next week | Enlarge / Someone really likes Google Chrome.
Isaac Bowen / Flickr reader comments 190
Google Chrome will be shutting down its older, more capable extension system, Manifest V2, in favor of exclusively using the more limited Manifest V3. Th... |
| 29.05.2024 | Elon Musk’s Broken Clock Moment: Standing Up To Australia’s Censorship Overreach | Elon Musk, the self-proclaimed ‘free speech absolutist,’ rarely gets it right when it comes to actual free speech. But he deserves a rare round of applause in his fight against Australia’s global speech injunction.
We’ve had many posts deta... |
| 28.05.2024 | Wanna Make Big Tech Monopolies Even Worse? Kill Section 230 | It’s no fun when your friends ask you to take sides in their disputes. The plans for every dinner party, wedding, and even funeral arrive at a juncture where you find yourself thinking, “Dang, if I invite her, then he won’t come.”
It’s even... |
| 23.05.2024 | The First Amendment Gives You The Right To Lie, Even With AI | While the celebrity-driven allure of the Scarlett Johansson voicealike story might be an easier headline grab, it is in the dark arts of election dirty trickery where you’re more likely to find the kinds of election misinformation concerns ... |
| 19.05.2024 | Слежка через пуш-уведомления на смартфонах | Недавно стало известно о новом виде слежки за пользователями смартфонов: через пуш-уведомления в iOS и Android. Газета Washington Post написала, в частности, что эту тактику начало использовать ФБР (кэш статьи).
Довольно интересно, как рабо... |
| 07.05.2024 | Biden Signed The TikTok Ban. What’s Next For TikTok Users? | Editor’s Note: This post was written before TikTok & ByteDance filed a lawsuit challenging the law this morning. So, while it says that no lawsuit has been filed, that’s no longer the case. The rest of the article is still relevant, tho... |
| 06.05.2024 | The U.S. House Version Of KOSA: Still A Censorship Bill | A companion bill to the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) was introduced in the House last month. Despite minor changes, it suffers from the same fundamental flaws as its Senate counterpart. At its core, this bill is still an unconstitutional c... |
| 05.05.2024 | Surveillance looms over pro-Palestinian campus protests | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
As college students reckon with weeks of pro-Palestinian protests and police activity on their campuses, experts warn they might spend their summer breaks feeling the impacts of ongoing campus surveil... |
| 30.04.2024 | Two Years Post-Roe: A Better Understanding Of Digital Threats | It’s been a long two years since the Dobbs decision to overturn Roe v. Wade. Between May 2022 when the Supreme Court accidentally leaked the draft memo and the following June when the case was decided, there was a mad scramble to figure out... |
| 29.04.2024 | What led to TikTok's Washington fumble | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
TikTok's D.C. playbook flopped last week when its tactics — better suited to the tech policy debates of a decade ago — failed to keep lawmakers from passing a bill that threatens its very existence.
T... |
| 25.04.2024 | FCC restores net neutrality rules | figcaption>span]:font-sans">
The FCC on Thursday voted along party lines to treat internet companies like utilities, clearing the way for heightened scrutiny on the industry.
Why it matters: Reclassifying broadband under Title II... |
| 23.04.2024 | Senate passes a bill that would ban TikTok if ByteDance doesn’t sell it | The Senate passed a bill, included with the foreign aid package, that will ban TikTok if its owner, ByteDance, doesn’t sell it within a year. Senators passed the bill 79-18 Tuesday after the House passed it with overwhelming majority over t... |
| 23.04.2024 | Any Privacy Law Is Going To Require Some Compromise: Is APRA The Right Set Of Tradeoffs? | Privacy issues have been at the root cause of so many concerns about the internet, but so many attempts to regulate privacy have been a total mess. There’s now a more thoughtful attempt to regulate privacy in the US that is (perhaps surpris... |
| 22.04.2024 | Lawmakers Who Insisted The US Gov’t Should Never Combat Foreign Influence Online, Vote To Combat TikTok’s Foreign Influence Online | Is the US government allowed to step in to deal with foreign influence on social media or not? According to at least some members of Congress, the answer appears to be “yes, when we dislike what they’re saying, and no when we like what they... |
| 20.04.2024 | U.S. House passes revised bill to ban TikTok or force sale | The U.S. House of Representatives passed a bill this afternoon that would require TikTok-owner ByteDance to sell the popular social media app or see it banned in the United States.
Efforts to ban TikTok go back to the Trump Administration, ... |
| 17.04.2024 | The Motion Picture Association Doesn’t Get To Decide Who The First Amendment Protects | Twelve years ago, internet users spoke up with one voice to reject a law that would build censorship into the internet at a fundamental level. This week, the Motion Picture Association (MPA), a group that represents six giant movie and TV s... |
| 12.04.2024 | Если покупка — это не владение, то пиратство — не воровство | Двадцать лет назад я ввязался в публичную перепалку (дружескую) с Крисом Андерсоном, работавшим тогда главным редактором Wired. Я публично выразил своё разочарование публикуемыми в Wired радужными обзорами отягощённых DRM цифровых устройств... |
| 05.04.2024 | Restricting Flipper Is A Zero Accountability Approach To Security | On February 8, François-Philippe Champagne, the Canadian Minister of Innovation, Science and Industry, announced Canada would ban devices used in keyless car theft. The only device mentioned by name was the Flipper Zero—the multitool device... |
| 03.04.2024 | Supreme Court Does Not Go Far Enough In Determining When Government Officials Are Barred From Censoring Critics On Social Media | After several years of litigation across the federal appellate courts, the U.S. Supreme Court in a unanimous opinion has finally crafted a test that lower courts can use to determine whether a government official engaged in “state action” s... |
| 02.04.2024 | ‘Reverse’ searches: The sneaky ways that police tap tech companies for your private data | U.S. police departments are increasingly relying on a controversial surveillance practice to demand large amounts of users’ data from tech companies, with the aim of identifying criminal suspects.
So-called “reverse” searches allow law enfo... |
| 02.04.2024 | Indianapolis PD Test Drives Three Gunshot Detection Systems, Decides None Are Worth Paying For | No matter who’s pitching the system, gunshot detection just doesn’t seem to be having any affect on crime rates or clearing investigations.
The biggest player in the business — ShotSpotter (now known as SoundThinking) — has seen some major ... |
| 01.04.2024 | Editorials | Editorial: Reddit shows the right way for social media | Congratulations to the newly minted multimillionaires who made bank last month with the IPO of Reddit stock. Under the ticker RDDT on the New York Stock Exchange, the now-public company can fairly be considered one of the giant social media... |
| 01.04.2024 | Because Facial Recognition Tech Just Isn’t Sketchy Enough, Cops Are Now Running Searches Using AI-Generated Faces | Facial recognition tech is probably improving as time goes on. Given enough providers, controversy, and individuals who definitely want this tech to stop being so terrible at correctly identifying women and minorities, anything is possible.... |
| 27.03.2024 | ShotSpotter Pitches In To Help Cops Open Fire On A Teen Setting Off Fireworks | Back in 2021, the Chicago Office of the Inspector General released a report on the PD’s ShotSpotter tech. The acoustic detection system was apparently mostly useless, no matter what ShotSpotter may have commented in response.
Residents of C... |
| 26.03.2024 | Editorials | Editorial: Supreme Court should affirm that government complaints are not free speech violations | Do government officials violate the First Amendment when they press internet platforms to remove or restrict misinformation about COVID-19, alleged election fraud or other matters of public interest? That proposition was presented to the Su... |
| 25.03.2024 | Сервис Glassdoor добавил настоящие имена в профили пользователей без их согласия, «спалив» их работодателям | Пользователи популярного сайта Glassdoor, который позволяет любому анонимно подписаться на обзор компаний, в которых они работали, говорят, что Glassdoor собирал и добавлял их имена в их профили без их согласия. Одна из пользователей под ни... |
| 21.03.2024 | Thousands Of Young People Told Us Why The Kids Online Safety Act Will Be Harmful To Minors | ___________________
___________________
How young people feel about the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) matters. It will primarily affect them, and many, many teenagers oppose the bill. Some have been calling and emailing legislators to tell ... |
| 20.03.2024 | OpenAI’s chatbot store is filling up with spam | When OpenAI CEO Sam Altman announced GPTs, custom chatbots powered by OpenAI’s generative AI models, onstage at the company’s first-ever developer conference in November, he described them as a way to “accomplish all sorts of tasks” — from ... |
| 20.03.2024 | Users say Glassdoor added real names to user profiles without their consent | Users of the popular site Glassdoor, which lets anyone anonymously sign up to review companies they have worked for, say Glassdoor collected and added their names to their user profiles without their consent.
One user, who goes by Monica, w... |
| 20.03.2024 | ISP’s Landmark Piracy Liability Case Doesn’t Get a Do-Over in Appeals Court | Late 2019, Internet provider Cox Communications lost its legal battle against a group of major record labels, including Sony and Universal.
Following a two-week trial, a Virginia jury held Cox liable for its pirating subscribers. The ISP fa... |
| 19.03.2024 | Sony Faces Sales Slump with PlayStation VR 2 | Sony's PlayStation VR 2 is struggling with low sales, forcing the company to halt production until existing stock is cleared. Bloomberg reports that despite releasing over 2 million units, Sony is unable to sell them, leading to a halt in p... |
| 19.03.2024 | Five Questions To Ask Before Backing The TikTok Ban | With strong bipartisan support, the U.S. House voted 352 to 65 to pass HR 7521 last week, a bill that would ban TikTok nationwide if its Chinese owner doesn’t sell the popular video app. The TikTok bill’s future in the U.S. Senate isn’t yet... |
| 16.03.2024 | Supreme Court to hear free speech case over government pressure on social media sites to remove content | Washington — The Supreme Court on Monday will be weighing whether the government crossed a constitutional line into censorship of lawful speech when it pressured social media platforms to take down content it deemed misleading.
The case pos... |
| 15.03.2024 | Cox Requests Rehearing of Piracy Case That ‘Threatens to Throw Countless People Offline’ | Internet provider Cox Communications has been on the sharp end of several piracy lawsuits in recent years.
The biggest hit came four years ago when the Internet provider lost its legal battle against a group of major record labels, includin... |
| 15.03.2024 | EFF Defends Anti-War Group Against SXSW’s Bullshit IP Claims | We haven’t talked a great deal about SXSW in some time, but they are back in the news and not for good reasons! The conference and festival kicked off in March as planned, but less planned were the protests that organized against the confer... |
| 14.03.2024 | Pornhub disables access in Texas due to age verification law | Texas residents can no longer access Pornhub — without a VPN. As of Thursday, when people in Texas try to access any of the porn sites owned by Aylo, formerly MindGeek, they’ll instead see a long message in opposition to age verification la... |
| 11.03.2024 | Once More With Feeling: Banning TikTok Doesn’t Do Much If We Don’t Regulate Data Brokers And Pass A Privacy Law | While it seemed like our national policy hysteria over TikTok had waned slightly in 2024, it bubbled up once again last week upon rumors that the White House is supporting a “welcome and important” new bill that would effectively ban TikTok... |
| 23.02.2024 | ‘IFPS Gateway Operator is not Liable for Pirated Software Keys’ | The InterPlanetary File System, more broadly known as IPFS, has been around for nearly a decade.
While the name may sound alien to the general public, the peer-to-peer file storage network has a growing user base among the tech-savvy.
In sh... |
| 20.02.2024 | Don’t Fall For The Latest Changes To The Dangerous Kids Online Safety Act | The authors of the dangerous Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) unveiled an amended version last week, but it’s still an unconstitutional censorship bill that continues to empower state officials to target services and online content they do not... |
| 14.02.2024 | Meta settles lawsuit over haptic feedback tech in Quest headsets | Immersion, a company specializing in haptic feedback tech, has settled a lawsuit with Meta over the latter’s use of touch-feedback in its Quest VR headsets.
In a press release, Immersion said that it had signed a license with Meta to make I... |
| 13.02.2024 | Dozens of Police Agencies in California Are Still Sharing Driver Locations with Anti-Abortion States. We're Fighting Back. | Over the last decade, California has built up some of the nation’s strongest driver privacy protections, thanks to the hard work of activists, civil rights groups, and elected leaders.
One law in particular, often called SB 34, prohibits po... |
| 12.02.2024 | 9 years through the revolving door: How the GOP's top Senate recruit in Michigan got rich after leaving Congress | Politics 9 years through the revolving door: How the GOP's top Senate recruit in Michigan got rich after leaving Congress
Bryan Metzger
2024-02-12T18:24:00Z
Share icon An curved arrow pointing right.
Share
Facebook Icon The letter F.
Facebo... |
| 09.02.2024 | Stability, Midjourney, Runway hit back in AI art lawsuit | The class-action copyright lawsuit filed by artists against companies providing AI image and video generators and their underlying machine learning (ML) models has taken a new turn, and it seems like the AI companies have some compelling ar... |
| 31.01.2024 | Senate hearing with five social media CEOs was a missed opportunity | Five social media CEOs were sworn in on Wednesday for what could have been the most eventful children’s online safety hearing yet. But even with some of tech’s most powerful figures under oath, the four-hour hearing was anti-climactic.
The ... |
| 31.01.2024 | Microsoft, X throw their weight behind KOSA, the controversial kids online safety bill | On the eve of Wednesday’s Big Tech hearing (both Big Tech and a big hearing — five CEOs are testifying as we speak), Microsoft stepped up to back a controversial bill that aims to protect children from the dangers of social media. In the ea... |
| 30.01.2024 | CEOs from Meta, TikTok, Snap, X and Discord head to Congress for kids’ online safety hearing | CEOs from some of the biggest social platforms will appear before Congress on Wednesday to defend their companies against mounting criticism that they have done too little to protect kids and teens online.
The hearing, set to begin at 10AM ... |
| 30.01.2024 | Ring Breaks Up With Law Enforcement, Will No Longer Provide A Footage Request Portal For Cops | Hey, everyone makes mistakes. Ring certainly did. Amazon’s home surveillance acquisition realized there was no one in the residential space willing to slavishly cater to cops.
Ring decided it would provide this supposed “public service.” It... |
| 23.01.2024 | Was The NO AI FRAUD Act Written By A Fraudulent AI? Because Whoever Wrote It Is Hallucinating | A couple of weeks ago, a friend sent me Rep. Maria Elvira Salazar’s and Rep. Madeleine Dean’s proposed NO AI FRAUD Act, which purports to “protect Americans’ individual right to their likeness and voice against AI-generated fakes and forger... |
| 11.01.2024 | EFF Asks Pennsylvania’s Top Court To Stop Cops From Googling For Suspects | Law enforcement officers learned long ago that if all they have is a crime scene and no likely suspects, there was no reason to wear out shoe leather beating the streets for alleged criminals. They don’t even need to leave the office. All t... |
| 10.01.2024 | California Appeals Court Says Police Drone Footage Not Automatically Exempt From Public Records Law | Public records requesters in California recently scored a small victory in one of the state’s appeals courts. The EFF, which filed an amicus brief in this case, summarizes the decision at its website. |
| 08.01.2024 | Когда старый софт лучше нового | У каждого из нас наверняка есть подборка старого проверенного софта, который много лет работает без сбоев. В такой ситуации возникает вопрос: а зачем его обновлять?
Практика показывает, что новые версии утилит часто изменяются к худшему, ра... |
| 27.12.2023 | Stupid Patent of the Month: Selfie Contests | Patents are supposed to be an incentive to invent. Too often, they end up being a way to try to claim “ownership” of what should be basic building blocks of human activity, culture, and knowledge. This is especially true of software patents... |
| 24.12.2023 | Насколько надежна ваша парольная фраза? | Парольная фраза (passphrase), часто называемая “кодовой фразой” или “25 словом”, является частью предложения BIP-39 и создает дополнительный слой безопасности для вашего сида. Благодаря парольной фразе, пользователь может создать несколько ... |
| 22.12.2023 | Pornhub owner pays US government $1.8M to resolve sex trafficking probe | Pornhub’s parent company Aylo Holdings will pay $1.8 million to the U.S. government to resolve a charge of profiting off of sex trafficking. The company, formerly known as MindGeek, will enter a deferred prosecution agreement, which means t... |
| 20.12.2023 | Tech gifts you shouldn’t buy your family and friends for the holidays | It’s the season to go a little overboard on gift giving. But this year, give the gift of good security (and privacy) and eschew tech that can have untoward risks or repercussions. We’re not talking about things that go boom in the night or ... |
| 18.12.2023 | Internet Archive Files Opening Brief In Its Appeal Of Book Publishers’ Win | A few weeks ago, publishing giant Penguin Random House (and, yes, I’m still confused why they didn’t call it Random Penguin House after the merger) announced that it was filing a lawsuit (along with many others) against the state of Iowa fo... |
| 18.12.2023 | EU begins investigation into X over suspected DSA breach | The European Union (EU) has opened formal proceedings against Elon Musk’s X to investigate if it breached the bloc’s Digital Service Act (DSA) rules.
The probe, launched on Monday (Dec.18), will particularly scrutinize “the dissemination of... |
| 16.12.2023 | Google moves to end geofence warrants, a surveillance problem it largely created | Google will soon allow users to store their location data on their devices rather than on Google’s servers, effectively ending a long-running surveillance practice that allowed police and law enforcement to tap Google’s vast banks of locati... |
| 13.12.2023 | Европол: Bluetooth-трекеры помогают контрабандистам в бизнесе | Контрабандисты стали активно использовать Bluetooth-трекеры для определения местонахождения незаконных грузов, сообщил Европол. Применяя этот инструмент, преступники в первую очередь уделяют внимание незаконному обороту наркотиков.
В течени... |
| 11.12.2023 | Apple’s Nonsensical Attack On Beeper For Making Apple’s Own Users Safer | Apple has spent the past few years pushing the marketing message that it, alone among the big tech companies, is dedicated to your privacy. This has always been something of an exaggeration, but certainly less of Apple’s business is based a... |
| 11.12.2023 | Don’t Fuel the Copyright Troll Fire, Supreme Court Hears | Over the past several years we’ve covered dozens of copyright troll cases against tens of thousands of alleged copyright infringers.
Our coverage mostly focuses on piracy-related cases, but there are other variants too. Outfits that target ... |
| 11.12.2023 | House Committees Offer Up Competing Section 702 Reform Bills. Only One Has Any Actual Reforms. | As is the case any time surveillance powers are up for renewal, there’s always a chance to reform them. Most of these efforts tend to get derailed by a majority of legislators who just want to push things through before any lively discussio... |
| 09.12.2023 | A Trojan Horse in a House Intel Committee Bill Massively Expands FISA 702 Surveillance | Snuck into bill is text that could conscript a huge range of businesses for mass surveillance
Tucked away near the end of the bill the House Intelligence Committee reported on December 7 (H.R. 6611, the “HPSCI bill”) is a provision that wou... |
| 04.12.2023 | UK age assurance guidance for porn sites gives thumbs up to AI age checks, digital ID wallets and more | The U.K.’s Internet regulator has set out draft guidance for how porn sites will need to meet a newly introduced hard legal requirement to prevent children accessing adult content. So, yep, those years-in-the-making British age checks for p... |
