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Twitter suspends the account of Unity4J, prominent Julian Assange free speech support community
Users are shocked at Twitter’s stance against free speech.
UK police are still investigating journalists over the Edward Snowden case from 2013
UK’s National Union of Journalists criticized it by saying that reporting about unlawful surveillance was in the public interest.
US tech companies with ties to Google are helping Middle East dictators, report suggests
The report suggests that US surveillance tech is being put to bad use in the Middle East and North Africa.
New proposed US copyright laws are a major threat to free speech
The new laws have a good chance of being passed on Congress.
Italy outlines free public Wi-Fi program, raising potential privacy concerns
Getting people used to free public Wi-Fi opens them up to the dangers of hidden private honeypot networks.
Google bans Gab app, gives the decentralized social network an impossible list of demands
Google’s decision means it can now ban ANY app that features what it deems to be user generated content if it decides that content is “objectionable.”
YouTube to MP3 and MP4 rippers are being targeted for takedown by YouTube
Many use the services to easily download videos from YouTube to watch or listen to offline. They can easily be downloaded by those that know how, but YouTube wants to make it hard for people by removing the most user-friendly options.
UK Home Secretary pushes crime facial recognition tech that only worked 8 out of 42 times
The technology has been called illegal by civil rights groups.
Google News’ new design shows less news, makes publishers more prominent
Google’s new changes will roll out over the next few weeks.
FTC approves Facebook fine of one month’s revenue in privacy settlement
The fine is related to an investigation around the Cambridge Analytica data scandal.
YouTube says new “creator-on-creator harassment” rules are coming
This comes after Vox host Carlos Maza claimed that comedian Steven Crowder’s jokes about him constituted “harassment.”
Almost all of the 2020 candidates are using bad email security practices
It seems political candidates have yet to learn from the mistakes of the past.