What Happens When Big Brother Meets Big Tech
Author and law professor Maurice Stucke warns that as fundamental privacy rights vanish, your personal data can and will be used against you.
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FBI Now Joins in China Warmongering in Bizarre Speech in London with MI5 About Taiwan, Intellectual Property Theft
The US is really really out to heat things up with China…
Read more...Privacy in the Wake of Dobbs: How Safe Are Your Medical Records and Digital Data If Prosecutors or Bounty Hunters from No-Choice States Come Knocking?
To answer the privacy question posed in the headline in a couple of words: not very. Expect a flurry of litigation involving no-choice and pro-choice states and the feds on issues of extraterritoriality, enforcement, and evidence.
Read more...‘Elon, There Are Rules’: EU Says Twitter Must Comply With New Digital Services Act
One day after Elon Musk took over Twitter, a top European regulator gave the world’s richest man a “reality check” about how they will respond if he loosens the platform’s content moderation policies.
Read more...Journalist Gonzalo Lira Is Alive and So Is His Bucha Video
We are glad to see confirmation that Gonzalo Lira is alive and are reposting his short-lived but important Bucha video.
Read more...Lee Camp: NY Times Goes After Indie Journalists
Lee Camp calls out the New York Times’ many acts of malpractice, including the smearing of real journalists like Ben Norton.
Read more...Data Competition Won’t Protect Your Privacy
Regulators propose democratizing data and encouraging competition to rein in Big Tech. But that won’t do much to protect user privacy.
Read more...Trudeau’s Money Heist: Emergencies Act Allows Seizure of Bank Accounts, Securities, Crypto of Those Suspected of “Links” to Convoy Members w/o Court Order
Why the implementation of Canada’s Emergencies Act is a terrible precedent.
Read more...More Home Surveillance Coming Your Way, Courtesy Bosch and the Internet of Things
Bosch brings you Stasi at home….and the worst is, too many people will happily pay for more surveillance.
Read more...Senators Have Re-Introduced the Highly Unpopular EARN IT Bill That Would Scan All Online Messages
The EARN IT Act would authorize a massive new private surveillance system, rolling back important privacy and security features
Read more...Facebook: Latest Court Case Shows How Europe is Clamping Down on Big Tech
The European Court of Justice has just dealt a major blow to Facebook’s approach to users’ data.
Read more...WSJ Report: Companies Step Up Efforts to Get You to Cough Up Your Data, in the Face of Policy Changes by Apple and Google
In response to data protection laws in California and Europe, as well as big Tech policy changes, customers are increasing their efforts to collect their customers’ personal data.
Read more...Wall Street Journal Provides New Evidence of Facebook Politically-Driven Intervention in Content
Some Facebook internal chats reveal its censorship, um, moderation to be a hot mess.
Read more...Apple Rolling Out iPhone, iPad, iCloud Spyware, with Kiddie Porn as the Excuse
Apple abandons its pretense of caring about user privacy and has now joined arms with the police. Be warned.
Read more...Confessions of a New York Times Washington Correspondent – Bob Smith Pt 1/2
The New York Times is impartial when convenient…which wasn’t during Watergate, My Lai, the Iraq War, and the Trump era, for instance
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