Brave Now Has a Stripped Down Option — Here’s Who Should Care
It’s a surprisingly coherent product, but whether you actually need it depends entirely on which kind of privacy user you are.
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It’s a surprisingly coherent product, but whether you actually need it depends entirely on which kind of privacy user you are.
The FCC just proposed fixing your robocall problem by building the kind of phone-user registry that privacy advocates have spent decades trying to prevent.
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The bill that promises not to surveil Canadians requires a year of every Canadian’s location data sitting on private servers.
The bill defunds the same disinformation programs that Washington spent the last decade building.
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The 45-day extension passed without anyone being allowed to read the secret court ruling that found constitutional violations in how the program operates.
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The reforms add paperwork and prison time for misuse, but they leave the part everyone has fought about for two decades exactly where it was.
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