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French president Macron pushing for pre-election censorship of all news articles to combat “fake news”

Updated on Aug 26, 2020 by Rick Falkvinge

French president Macron, in an attempt to have the Power of Narrative stay with the offline-born old guard, is pushing a law that will reintroduce regular news censorship -- even in…

Categories: Censorship, General Privacy News, Governments

Swiss vote overwhelmingly in FAVOR of Internet censorship in June 10 gambling referendum

Updated on Aug 26, 2020 by Rick Falkvinge

The Swiss have held their referendum on foreign online gambling, and voted overwhelmingly in favor of Internet censorship. With 73% in favor of censorship, it's likely that people voted "against…

Categories: Censorship, General Privacy News, Governments

Julia Reda sounds the alarm: Two weeks until Censorship Machine vote in the European Parliament

Updated on Jul 26, 2021 by Rick Falkvinge

Julia Reda sounds the alarm that the European Parliament will vote on mandatory upload filtering in two weeks, with nowhere near enough attention to this issue from the public at…

Categories: Censorship, Copyright, General Privacy News, Governments

FOSTA-SESTA is now law—where does that leave the Internet?

Updated on Aug 5, 2021 by Miles McCain

Though FOSTA-SESTA was signed into law just over one month ago, its impact on the Internet is already visible. The bill was meant to curb online sex trafficking. In reality,…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments

In China’s footsteps: Amazon and US schools normalize automatic facial recognition and constant surveillance

Updated on Nov 18, 2021 by Glyn Moody

Amazon has developed a powerful cloud-based facial recognition system called "Rekognition", which has major implications for privacy. It is already being used by multiple US police forces to carry out…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments, Surveillance

May 25: The General Data Protection Regulation takes effect today

Updated on Jul 27, 2021 by Rick Falkvinge

It's May 25, and the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR) comes into effect. It contains such a shocking amount of common sense, that companies worldwide have been scrambling in…

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Switzerland holds referendum on Internet censorship — to protect domestic gambling

Updated on Jul 20, 2021 by Rick Falkvinge

The Swiss Pirate Party reports that there is a Swiss referendum coming on June 10 to introduce Internet censorship for the first time. The purpose of the censorship is to…

Categories: Censorship, General Privacy News, Governments

The growing threat to privacy from big data forensics and false positives

Updated on Aug 2, 2021 by Glyn Moody

The cost of sequencing the DNA found in genomes has been decreasingly rapidly in recent years. Since 2008, it has been falling even faster than the well-known Moore's Law for…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments

Today, the Senate Votes to Save Net Neutrality

Updated on Jul 30, 2021 by Caleb Chen

Today, the United States Senate will vote on whether or not to save net neutrality.  All 49 Senate Democrats, with the support of key Republican Senators, have successfully forced a Resolution of…

Categories: General Privacy News, Governments

Crypto backdoors are in the news again, and as bad for privacy as ever

Updated on Aug 25, 2020 by Glyn Moody

VPNs are an indispensable part of online life, and they protect many aspects of privacy. But there's a class of threats that VPNs can't defend against: crypto backdoors, which allow…

Categories: Cybersecurity, General Privacy News, Governments
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