Privacy
Sony was granted a patent for “spoiler blocking” technology just days before The Last of Us 2 leaks
The technology will control the amount of spoilers a player comes in contact with until they’ve completed enough of the game.
Surveillance is going viral
Rights are being eroded.
How Huawei’s 5G roll-out is directly tied to China’s human rights abuses and “digital gulags”
Nations have more than one reason to reconsider Huawei’s 5G roll-out.
How China appoints 4.5 million “administrators” to snoop on and report neighbors who don’t conform
Coming to a state near you?
Status is the latest privacy-focussed chat app that aims to fix messaging and more
More alternatives are popping up in recent months.
Open source NodeTube allows users to beat censorship and deploy their own YouTube alternative
More YouTube alternatives are finally popping up.
Tony Blair Institute For Global Change says increased surveillance is a “price worth paying”
The institute thinks we should ease off on civil liberties for the sake of the pandemic.
UK’s centralized contact tracing corona app aided by UK intelligence agency
The UK, along with France, have rejected a decentralized model.
Poll suggests majority of people support big tech contact tracing
The pandemic has been a big boon for big tech overreach.
WhatsApp was so desperate to suppress conspiracy theories it suppressed everything
Facebook is taking a sledgehammer approach to even private conversations.
Harvard and Arizona law professors lay out the case for online “speech control”
“Significant monitoring and speech control are inevitable components of a mature and flourishing internet, and governments must play a large role in these practices to ensure that the internet is compatible with a society’s norms and values.”
US Police begin using surveillance drones donated from China
The use of drones is being encouraged to enforce social distancing measures.