Topic: Meta
Meta’s platforms reach billions, and its rules on speech, data, and identity verification travel with them. We cover the company’s handling of government censorship demands, its data collection, and its growing push toward age and identity checks that erode online anonymity.
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Seattle Children’s Hospital Spied on Searches, Parents Tell WA Court
A snippet of code sat quietly on the hospital’s site and mailed every parent’s search straight to Facebook.
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EU-Backed Appeals Center Accidentally Confirms the DSA Censorship Regime Is Unworkable
The body Brussels built to make its censorship regime work just published the numbers proving it can’t.
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Supreme Court Refusal in Vermont v. Meta Strengthens Addiction Suits Threatening Online Anonymity
The justices let an addiction case proceed and buried inside it is the end of logging on as a stranger.
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California’s New Age-Verification Bill Frees Linux But Expands Age Tracking to the Open Web
California fixed the most obvious problem with its age-tracking law but replaced it with a version that follows you across…
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Germany Considers Law to Force Social Media Algorithm Boost for State-Approved News
The regulators who would decide what counts as “reliable” news are appointed through a chain that starts with the same…
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The Strange Truth Behind The New WhatsApp Privacy Lawsuits
End-to-end encrypted, with asterisks nobody reads.
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5 Tech Giants Let UK Speech Regulator Preview New Features
Five tech giants just agreed to show a government regulator their homework before turning it in, even though the law…
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Canada Says Critics Don’t Understand Its Surveillance Bill
They do. That’s the problem.
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Days Away: The TAKE IT DOWN Act Creates a Censorship Mechanism With No Safeguards
The law Congress unanimously passed to fight revenge porn also handed anyone with an internet connection and a grudge a…
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Meta Will Fight Ofcom Over the Math, Just Not the Censorship
The company that could most credibly challenge Britain’s online speech regime is instead asking a London court to please use…
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European Commission Official Touts 17 Investigations as Proof the Digital Services Act “Delivers”
The Commission now employs 127 people to police online speech and is hiring 60 more, all without a single courtroom…
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France Moves to Break Encrypted Messaging
France’s parliament just endorsed the one idea every cryptographer on earth has already debunked and they’re calling it a compromise.