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MAGA World’s ‘Freedom Phone’ Actually Budget Chinese Phone
MAGA Influencers are pushing a phone preloaded with apps like Parler and Rumble that appears to be a vastly more expensive version of a phone made in China.
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Port Permanently Bans Facial Recognition, Other Biometrics for Law Enforcement and Mass Surveillance
The Port of Seattle Commission voted today to permanently prohibit the use of biometric technology — including facial recognition — for law enforcement, security, and mass surveillance purposes by the...
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Ring’s end-to-end encryption is rolling out globally
The company is also adding support for authenticator apps.
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White House Executive Order Poised to Restore Net Neutrality. Order takes several steps to restore telecom oversight, ban sneaky fees, and kill harmful, exclusive landlord broadband deals. #NetNeutral... View More
White House Executive Order Poised to Restore Net Neutrality
Order takes several steps to restore telecom oversight, ban sneaky fees, and kill harmful, exclusive landlord broadband deals.
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Chatcontrol: European Parliament approves mass surveillance of private communications
Today, the European Parliament approved the ePrivacy Derogation, allowing providers of e-mail and messaging services to automatically search all personal messages of each citizen for presumed suspect ...
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Encrypted chat data leads to major drug raids in Germany
BERLIN (AP) — German security officials said Tuesday they made more than 750 arrests and seized large amounts of drugs after gaining access to extensive chat data of encrypted cellphones. The focus of...
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Hong Kong defends privacy law after Big Tech raises concerns
An industry body has warned that tech companies could stop offering services if the new law goes ahead.
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Microsoft executive says U.S. overuses secret orders for Americans’ data
The United States government is overusing its secret subpoena power to routinely gather vast amounts of data on American internet users, a senior Microsoft executive said in prepared testimony to Cong...
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EPIC - Maine Becomes First State to Enact Statewide Ban on Face Surveillance
The Maine Legislature has enacted the country’s strongest statewide facial recognition law. Maine’s new law prohibits public officials and public employees at the state, county and municipal levels fr...
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Google reiterates Assistant recordings aren’t listened to by employees
Google has reportedly admitted to an Indian government panel that the Google Assistant records in secret even when it’s not vocally triggered.
