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Cloudflare Announces Warp: A Free VPN That It Claims Will Actually Respect Your Privacy
Cloudflare claims that its Warp VPN will not write any user-identifiable log data to disk, will purge all debug logs within 24 hours, and will not require any personally identifiable information to start using the service.
Prosecutors Want Key Figures of the Infamous Copyright Troll Company Prenda Law Firm to Over a Decade in Jail
Members of the firm uploaded torrents of copyrighted pornographic material to the Pirate Bay sharing website with the goal of luring “pirates” into downloading this content, TorrentFreak is reporting.
Twitter Plans to Hide and Label Tweets From Trump and Other Public Figures When They Violate Its Rules
In an interview with The Washington Post, Twitter’s Lead of Trust and Safety, Legal, and Public Policy, Vijaya Gadde, said that Twitter is working on ways to hide tweets and label tweets from President Trump and other public figures if they violate Twitter’s rules.
A Jehovah’s Witnesses Group Is Trying to Abuse Copyright Law to Unmask a Reddit User’s Identity
EFF is optimistic that a court will reject the subpoena targeting “darkspilver” – as courts regularly do if these requests don’t pass constitutional scrutiny.
The US Government Is Using Images of Citizens Without Their Consent, Including Dead People and Exploited Minors, to Test Facial Recognition Tech
People are being captured at their most vulnerable positions and their images are being used without knowledge or consent.
Consider Making Your Flickr Photos Creative Commons to Avoid the 1,000 Photo Limit
“All public Creative Commons works on Flickr are now protected from deletion”, says Flickr.
Senator Josh Hawley’s Solution for the Censoring of Conservatives Would Actually Lead to More Censoring of Conservatives
Section 230 is actually good at protecting free speech.
Huawei: The US Is Scared We’ll Stop NSA Spying – It’s Nothing to Do With China
“Prism, Prism on the wall, who is the most trustworthy of them all?”
5g Privacy Concerns Are Real, Says Bell Labs Researcher
5g is coming and one of most alarming issues is how 5g makes it easy to access the location of a user.
New FTC Task Force Is Starting to Investigate Tech Monopolies
Many feel that tech companies are getting too big and need to be broken up to maintain a fair market.
Free Speech Social Network Gab and Its Dissenter Comments Extension Are Now Open to All Users
Gab, the free speech social network, was previously invite-only and Dissenter, the extension that allows you to create Gab-hosted comments feeds for any website, was initially only available to Gab Pro users. Now anyone can sign up for a free Gab account and connect it to Dissenter.
Publishers Say That Revenue on Apple News Is “Abysmal” Due to Apple’s Focus on Privacy
Advertisers love lots of privacy-invading data, and Apple won’t collect it.
