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Memes are safe for now, as the “anti-meme” bill is blocked from Senate vote
Senators Ron Wyden and Rand Paul have saved the day.
AG William Barr makes his case for a domestic surveillance system to tackle “potential mass shootings”
The memorandum also reveals that the US now plans to put to use domestically its post 9/11 anti-terrorism experience, in the past applied in other countries.
TikTok says it’s not censoring content on behalf of the Chinese government
TikTok has been accused of censoring on behalf of China and has raised national security concerns in the US Congress.
New Republican bill thinks Minority Report style mass school surveillance will cut school shootings
To date, there has been no documented evidence that this level of mass surveillance actually prevents any harm.
The “anti-meme” law just got landslide approval from House of Representatives
Congress is coming for your memes.
Facebook to start revealing Page owners, forcing them to make their private information public
The changes mean many popular anonymous and pseudonymous meme pages and political pages will be forced to leave the platform.
Major data leak on Best Western Hotels booking system exposes data related to Department of Homeland Security
The most affected of this vulnerability has been the United States Government.
Imgur will stop displaying NSFW subsections from Reddit on its site
Imgur says these pages put its business “at risk”.
Congress to vote on CASE Act – a law that would enable censorship through copyright claims
Copyright trolls would benefit from the situation.
Colleges are secretly using social media data to rank applicants
Many have privacy concerns.
Journalists are increasingly using Google’s G Suite for their work, raising ethics and privacy questions
Data created and exchanged using G Suite is not end-to-end encrypted, which allows Google – and others, such as a US government agency, to gain access to it.
Joe Biden thinks he can introduce background checks for accessing 3D printed gun code
The big picture of this issue is that the State Department’s unchecked power to control what information is published online can lead to sweeping censorship.