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Edward Snowden book to be published in September
The whistleblower and privacy campaigner has written a memoir.
New UK Home Secretary Priti Patel says anti-encryption summit “exciting moment for the UK”
The war against encryption is underway.
Fact checker says Facebook isn’t doing enough to combat so-called “fake news”
The group wants Facebook to share more data with “fact checkers” to improve the results.
Court rules UK’s invasive mass surveillance program is not a breach of human rights
Apparently, bulk data collection of all citizens is perfectly fine.
Twitter tells Canadian Yasmine Mohammed her tweet may violate UK speech law
This follows Twitter previously sending similar notices to people outside of Pakistan saying that their tweets may be violating Pakistan’s blasphemy laws.
Facebook backtracks and removes 3D printed gun restrictions
In a rare move, Facebook has reversed its ban on 3D printed guns.
UK YouTube chief says government regulation could lead to censorship on the platform
Perhaps YouTube thinks it should be the ones to decide what’s allowed and that the government should stay away?
G7 nations outline plans for “urgent” taxes on big tech
The seven nations think tech companies need to be taxed more in order to be controlled.
UK lawmakers call for police to stop using face recognition tech
The news comes as the Home Secretary called for increased testing of face recognition technology to fight crime.
After browsers banned 3rd party tracking, publishers are switching to tracking you themselves
Publishers are building their own 1st party solutions to track you now browsers have blocked cross platform tracking.
UK lawmaker “Censorship Queen” Margot James resigns
Online rights groups have reason to celebrate today after a one of the most censorship-driven lawmakers in British politics has resigned.
UK Labour Party demands documentary exposing anti-semitism within the party is removed from the internet
The party told the BBC they should take the documentary down and only reupload it when they make the changes they want.