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Google Android ID Rules Take Effect In Four Countries
Google’s identity checkpoint has arrived, and sideloading now comes with paperwork, warnings, and a waiting period.
Google Starts Asking for Developers' Papers on September 30
The thing that made Android worth choosing is now a setting you have to search for.
Privacy Groups Revolt Against Google’s Demand to Register Every Android Developer
Google is turning sideloading from a right into a permission slip, and the open-source community has until September to convince it otherwise.
Google Softens Planned Android Sideloading Ban but Keeps Developer ID Verification
Google’s nod to openness feels more like a gated entrance than a genuine return to Android’s freewheeling past.
Indonesian Government Restores TikTok’s License After Platform Shares User Data
In a country where social media often outpaces law, TikTok’s quiet concession speaks volumes.
Google to Require ID Verification for All Android Developers
Android’s last big selling point, the freedom to install whatever you want from who you want, may soon run through a single Google checkpoint.
Biden Endorses G20 Declaration to Censor “Disinformation”
While facing a censorship lawsuit.
G20 Summit Hears Calls for a Global Digital Health Passport
In time for the “next pandemic.”
Facial Recognition Tech Is Deployed at G20
Just “in case” of a crime.
YouTube CEO Hypocrisy: Susan Wojcicki Says She Wants “as Much Free Speech as We Possibly Can”
From the head of a platform that censors millions of videos each year.
Indonesia’s President Agrees to Pardon Professor Who Was Jailed Over WhatsApp Message
Indonesia’s strict “safety” laws have a chilling impact on free speech.
Indonesia COVID App Suffers Major Data Leak of Over 1 Million People
Increasingly common with COVID apps.
