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Apple pauses all product sales in Russia, pulls RT and Sputnik from App Stores outside of Russia
Another company cuts off Russian citizens.
Tech platforms start blocking RT and Sputnik in Europe after EU order
The European Commission President described the blocks as an “unprecedented step.”
Twitter starts reducing the reach of Russian state-affiliated media websites
Tech companies have faced mounting pressure to restrict Russian state media.
Europe considers regulating Spotify
Forcing it to moderate content.
Google Analytics in its current form is a privacy law violation, France rules
Google tracking scripts on websites are scooping up data on visitors.
Facebook is ordered to delete content defaming a politician in big EU ruling that has free speech implications
The ruling increases the risk of censorship.
Germany’s Interior Ministry accuses Google and Apple of inciting “conspiracy theories” for allowing Telegram
Telegram is one of the next censorship targets.
The EU is considering its own DNS resolver that can block websites
New censorship tools.
New cars sold in the EU will be forced to record driving data
Starting this summer.
European court rules emotion recognition projects can bypass public debate
A loss for privacy.
EU wants more speech control laws to tackle online “misogyny” and more
Drafting new laws.
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