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MembersYou Don’t Own Your Kindle Books. Here’s What You Can Do About It.
The open source ebook ecosystem now has a genuine answer for every piece of Amazon’s walled garden, if you care enough to look into it.
A Court Banned a Man from ChatGPT. No One Asked If That’s Constitutional.
A California judge just decided who gets to use ChatGPT, and the person banned from it wasn’t even in the courtroom.
Turkey To Require National ID for Social Media Accounts
Turkey’s government just found a way to put a national ID card on every tweet, post, and comment its citizens make online.
Xbox Now Wants Your Face to Let You Play Games You Already Own in Singapore
Microsoft wants your face, your passport, or your national ID, just to keep playing the games sitting on your account.
Ofcom Demands Tech Platforms Fund the UK’s Internet Censorship Regime
Ofcom now sends the bill for policing the internet directly to the companies being policed, and the meter just started running.
Secret Grand Jury Convened to Unmask Anonymous Government Critic on Reddit
The government lost its case in open court, so it moved the whole thing behind closed doors.
Massachusetts House Passes Social Media Age Verification Digital ID Bill
Every adult in Massachusetts would have to hand their ID to a tech company just to keep scrolling.
Idaho Bans Mandatory Digital ID With New Privacy Law
In a country racing to put every ID on a screen, Idaho just wrote the right to say “no” into law.
xAI Sues Colorado to Block AI Speech Regulation on First Amendment Grounds
AI’s lawsuit against Colorado doubles as the first major courtroom test of whether the government can tell an AI what opinions to have.
EU Says EUDI Wallet Is Voluntary; Germany’s SPD Plan Says Otherwise
You don’t set an 80% adoption target for something you genuinely intend to keep optional.
MembersCongress Mandated the Backdoors That Got Hacked and Is Trying to Demand More
A backdoor doesn’t check credentials. Once it exists, it’s a target for anyone with the skill to find it.
Reno Police Sued After Wrongful Arrest Based on Facial Recognition Errors
The officer who arrested him later admitted under oath it never should have happened, and that doing it this way was department policy.