Privacy
Brazil Law Makes VPN Use an Aggravating Factor in Crimes as the First Lady Pushes For a Discord Ban
Brazil's virtual patrol rule also lets police pull connection data with no warrant.
Xbox Age Checks Hit Australian Adults Buying 18+ Games
Every adult hands over a face or a document, and the children the rule is aimed are are still playing.
MembersTotal Coverage, Optional Oversight
Surveillance companies do not promise their systems will never be abused. They promise the abuse will be caught, which is a different promise and a much smaller one.
Apple Private Relay Bug Leaks Real IP in Safari
Under some conditions, the traffic leaves the iPhone directly and never touches the relay the subscriber is paying for.
WhatsApp Starts Asking Some Indian Users for a Date of Birth
India's IT Secretary says the government will check with WhatsApp about its DPDP age verification methods.
Meta Fined $567M in Ruling That Points to Digital ID
Nothing in the order says "show us your ID" but everything downstream of the order does.
Tower Dumps Are Unconstitutional, Federal Judge Rules
Tower dumps can place people inside homes, clinics, shelters, and polling sites, the Mississippi order warns.
Second Circuit Strikes Down New York City Law Forcing Apps to Share Customer Data
A restaurant taking a DoorDash order sees a first name and a last initial but a new law would have sent the rest.
Four Kids "Safety" Bills, Supporting Online Digital ID Agenda, Hit Senate Floor
KOSA and the CHATBOT Act say they do not require age verification. Their duties still revolve on knowing a user's age.
MembersThe Streetlight With Half a Terabyte of Surveillance Storage Inside
The city council approved a lighting upgrade. What it got was 4,000 poles with an Intel processor and two cameras apiece, and nobody thought to ask which one they were voting on.
Italy's Draft AI Decree Lets Police Take the Biometrics of Everyone at a Protest
The government's defense is that collection and recognition are two different stages, seven days apart.
Wichita Machinist Sues City to Shut Down Flock License Plate Camera Network
The suit asks Kansas courts to read the state constitution as protecting more than the Fourth Amendment does.