DuckDuckGo Installs Surge 30.5% After Google AI Search Overhaul
The numbers are small but for the first time the friction of switching looks cheaper to users than the cost of staying.
California’s New Age-Verification Bill Frees Linux But Expands Age Tracking to the Open Web
California fixed the most obvious problem with its age-tracking law but replaced it with a version that follows you across the entire internet.
Even Google Warns Canada Bill C-22 Creates Surveillance Backdoors
The bill is in real trouble when even Google, a company that built its empire on knowing everything about you, thinks a government’s surveillance plan goes too far.
5 Tech Giants Let UK Speech Regulator Preview New Features
Five tech giants just agreed to show a government regulator their homework before turning it in, even though the law never said they had to.
Incoming Chief of UK Speech Regulator Takes Aim at VPNs
The incoming Ofcom chair’s to-do list includes treating VPNs as obstacles, demanding new powers over YouTube, and asking the Treasury for a bigger budget.
MembersThe Web Is Splitting Into Approved and Unapproved Humans
Google asked permission to gate the open web in 2023, got rejected, and just shipped the same thing as a product update nobody voted on.
Google Broke reCAPTCHA for De-Googled Android Users
The company that decides whether you’re a bot now also requires you run its software to prove otherwise.
MembersClose the Shades: The Supreme Court, Google Location History, and the Reach of the Fourth Amendment
The justices seem ready to decide that mass surveillance is fine if you could have turned it off.
Australia Wants To Force Big Tech to Pay Legacy Media
The planned law privileges the biggest publishers.
Brussels Wants Google’s Search Data
Brussels wants the data shared at the same speed Google reads it itself, to recipients the proposal hasn’t finished naming.
MembersThe Opt-Out Button Is Decorative: A Guide to Hardening Your Browser
The opt-out button you’ve been clicking is decorative, so here is the browser build that stops asking nicely.
US Bill Mandates On-Device Age Verification
Buried in the definitions is a mandate that reaches every laptop, console, smart TV, and car infotainment system in the country.
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