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.
Your Old Kindle Still Works Perfectly. Amazon Is Killing It Anyway
Every internet-connected device in your home carries an expiration date.
MembersWhen Government Hacks Go Wandering
Government-built surveillance tools keep ending up in criminal hands, and the people who build them keep acting surprised.
The Verdict Against Meta and Google That Could End the Anonymous Internet
If the design-as-defect argument survives appeal, more than 1,600 similar cases waiting in courts across the country inherit a ready-made blueprint for killing anonymous speech.
Google’s Android Sideloading Will Now Require 10 Steps and a 24-Hour Wait
The ten-step process includes a mandatory 24-hour waiting period for something Android users have done with a single toggle since the platform launched.
Brazil Launches Mandatory Age Verification Law for Online Platforms
Brazil built a national age verification system, called it child protection, and buried the surveillance infrastructure in the footnotes.
Google Opens Android App Distribution, Cuts Play Store Fees After Epic Antitrust Loss
Google lost in court, lost on appeal, lost at the Supreme Court, and is now describing the result as something it chose to do.
Judge Blocks Virginia’s One-Hour Social Media Limit for Minors as Unconstitutional
Virginia set the government as the default gatekeeper of how long children can read, watch, and talk online, and a federal judge found that unconstitutional before the law ever took effect.
