Germany
Vodafone plans to subvert privacy protections with new ad-tracking tech
Tracking on the service provider level.
Pressure Group Tells German Citizens to Use App To Report “Hate Speech”
Similar to implementations from the Chinese Communist Party.
WHO partners with Deutsche Telekom to push global vaccine passport system
The affront to civil liberties continues.
Members
Facebook backtracks after censoring anti-war socialist video
The video was deleted within days of its upload.
Ukraine’s Foreign minister asks countries to criminalize the use of the “Z” symbol
The symbol is used by supporters of Russia and President Vladamir Putin’s invasion of Ukraine.
Music companies’ attempt to shutdown open-source video downloader youtube-dl gets pushback
Music companies try to suggest downloading videos is tied to copyright infringement.
Court rules against Germany’s “hate speech” law, says it’s illegal to share innocent users’ data with law enforcement
A win for freedom of expression.
Telegram begins blocking some channels in Germany after meeting with government
Blocked across all Telegram versions in the country.
Germany backs down on threat to ban Telegram
It would have been impossible anyway.
Germany’s Interior Ministry accuses Google and Apple of inciting “conspiracy theories” for allowing Telegram
Telegram is one of the next censorship targets.
German court rules against “almost absurd” claim that ad blocking is copyright infringement
The lawsuit was brought against Adblock Plus by Axel Springer.