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Russia orders 10 leading VPNs to comply with its list of banned sites
Russia has threatened to restrict access to 10 leading non-Russian VPNs if they don’t block certain sites.
The French Council of the Muslim Faith is suing Facebook and YouTube for not taking down the NZ shooting video fast enough
Many groups including the Islamic Association of New Zealand support the lawsuit.
German consumer group awards StartPage.com with a “best search engine” award, mostly due to its privacy
Startpage.com CEO Roberts Been was thrilled by the news and said the company was honored to achieve first place in the test.
Mastercard says it wants you to create a Mastercard ID so it can collect your data and create a “personalized online shopping experience”
The digital identity system will also help simplify government interactions with agencies in activities such as filing taxes, applying for passports, and much more.
The disgraced SPLC has “broad powers” of selecting which AmazonSmile charities can participate in the program
Amazon is yet to wash its hands of this partner, to whom it has given “broad powers” in selecting participants.
Online free speech in Texas is under threat by a new controversial bill, HB 2730
If bill HB 2730 were to pass, it would have multiple negative effects on free speech online.
Twitter plans to hide and label tweets from Trump and other public figures when they violate its rules
In an interview with The Washington Post, Twitter’s Lead of Trust and Safety, Legal, and Public Policy, Vijaya Gadde, said that Twitter is working on ways to hide tweets and label tweets from President Trump and other public figures if they violate Twitter’s rules.
The draconian Australian anti-encryption bill is putting companies off storing data in Australia
According to Bill Smith, Australia had for a long time remained a ‘comfortable’ place for foreign investors and governments to store their data.
BitTorrent Live will be a new, decentralized live-streaming app with blockchain, privacy and user-content ownership ambitions
According to the spokesman, BitTorrent Live will be available to beta testers in Q2 of this year and open to the public late this year.
AT&T, Verizon, and T-Mobile data privacy policies and business models are about to be investigated by the FTC
The FTC would like to know whether ISPs aggregate, anonymize or deidentify information, and what options their consumers have in accessing, correcting or deleting personal data.
A Jehovah’s Witnesses group is trying to abuse copyright law to unmask a Reddit user’s identity
EFF is optimistic that a court will reject the subpoena targeting “darkspilver” – as courts regularly do if these requests don’t pass constitutional scrutiny.
Microsoft embraces censorship, wants a “joint virtual command center” for censoring content
Microsoft has joined those calling for tougher censorship of online content by tech companies in the wake of the New Zealand mosque massacre earlier this month. Even though the contentious sharing of the video of the shooting wasn’t exactly taking place on LinkedIn, the social network owned by