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Canadian credit union to track transactions and tie them to carbon footprints
Normalizing social nudging through transactions.
Riot and Ubisoft team up to censor “toxicity” in gaming
Censoring chats.
G20 summit hears calls for a global digital health passport
In time for the “next pandemic.”
Queen Máxima of the Netherlands lobbies G20 for digital ID
An ID mechanism tied to the ability to make payments.
Rumble Fires Back at France’s Censorship Demands
A new legal challenge.
Senator Ed Markey issues threat to Elon Musk’s Twitter
Says Twitter will “pay a price” if it doesn’t add “guardrails.”
Pastor Greg Locke says YouTube has banned his channel, deleted over 800 videos
The pastor says he received no reason.
Mayorkas defends DHS efforts to address online “disinformation”
But said recent documents showing social media collusion were from before he was in office.
FBI Director Christopher Wray sounds an alarm about TikTok
Potentially allowing the Chinese Communist Party to collect data.
Police in Spain to deploy automated facial recognition
A database of citizens.
Google is sued for auto-installing Covid “spyware” on people’s phones
Users woke up to find Covid tracing tech on their device without their consent.
New York Fed plots test of centrally controlled digital dollar
Governments are creeping towards controllable currency.