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The EU is considering its own DNS resolver that can block websites
New censorship tools.
UK’s Royal Society study says social platforms shouldn’t censor “misinformation”
It only backfires and creates even more mistrust in institutions.
The IRS will force facial recognition scans on users this summer
Users will have to submit private documents, their social security number, credit history, and even a facial scan to a third party to get their information online.
Democrats’ new bill targets “surveillance advertising”
The bill is set to limit the ways companies can profit from user data.
China’s Olympics app is mandatory for heath data, has privacy flaws, and a censorship blacklist
The developers are yet to fix the issues.
House Republican Leader Kevin McCarthy embraces Rumble to share his content “without fear of being censored”
Another big name embraces the free speech video sharing platform.
Pfizer-backed CDC Foundation partnered with Facebook to fund social media tactics to increase “vaccine uptake”
Messages to the White House have been obtained.
Apple CEO Tim Cook is reported to personally be lobbying the Senate Judiciary Committee on antitrust
Cook is trying to protect Apple from regulation.
German court rules against “almost absurd” claim that ad blocking is copyright infringement
The lawsuit was brought against Adblock Plus by Axel Springer.
The CDC just said what Senator Rand Paul was censored on YouTube for saying
Senator Paul wants to know if he’s going to get an apology from YouTube.
Western Australia says vaccine passports to access public spaces could last “years”
Civil liberties in Australia are set to be further challenged.
Avoiding antitrust scrutiny, Microsoft is taking over large segments of the gaming market
Microsoft’s acquisitions are going to have major impacts on the gaming market.