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MembersTotal Coverage, Optional Oversight
Surveillance companies do not promise their systems will never be abused. They promise the abuse will be caught, which is a different promise and a much smaller one.
Texas Locked a Foreign Company's Domain Over Missing Digital ID Checks
Fourteen days after a Travis County judge signed, motherless.com dropped out of the .com zone file for every person on earth, most of whom have never heard of Travis County.
Apple Private Relay Bug Leaks Real IP in Safari
Under some conditions, the traffic leaves the iPhone directly and never touches the relay the subscriber is paying for.
America Presses South Korea on "False Information" Law
The offense goes undefined, so the cheapest way to comply is to delete every post a court might someday dislike.
WhatsApp Starts Asking Some Indian Users for a Date of Birth
India's IT Secretary says the government will check with WhatsApp about its DPDP age verification methods.
Meta Fined $567M in Ruling That Points to Digital ID
Nothing in the order says "show us your ID" but everything downstream of the order does.
Tower Dumps Are Unconstitutional, Federal Judge Rules
Tower dumps can place people inside homes, clinics, shelters, and polling sites, the Mississippi order warns.
Second Circuit Strikes Down New York City Law Forcing Apps to Share Customer Data
A restaurant taking a DoorDash order sees a first name and a last initial but a new law would have sent the rest.
Revolut Blocks GrapheneOS Users From Logging Into Its App
GrapheneOS accuses Revolut of enforcing Google Play licensing under a security label, blocking de-Googled phones.
London Police Crack the Case of the Three Polite Emails
Mark Rowley says the Met dropped the ball on its 4-month harassment case against reporter Jack Grove.
Four Kids "Safety" Bills, Supporting Online Digital ID Agenda, Hit Senate Floor
KOSA and the CHATBOT Act say they do not require age verification. Their duties still revolve on knowing a user's age.
MembersThe Streetlight With Half a Terabyte of Surveillance Storage Inside
The city council approved a lighting upgrade. What it got was 4,000 poles with an Intel processor and two cameras apiece, and nobody thought to ask which one they were voting on.