Privacy, censorship, & security in the news.
Here are a collection of links to articles I have found about privacy, censorship, and securty that are worth a read! I can't possibly write articles covering all the news on these topics, but I can share some good articles from other websites with you here instead. Note that I occasionally find a decent article from a source I can't stand. In this case, I will run the link through "archive.today" so I don't send the site in question any traffic.
Amazon Hit With Record EU Data Privacy Fine
July 31, 2021
"Amazon.com Inc has been hit with a record $886.6 million (746 million euros) European Union fine for processing ..."
Read full article onwww.theepochtimes.com
With help from Google, impersonated Brave.com website pushes malware
July 31, 2021
"With a valid TLS certificate, faux Bravė.com could fool even security-savvy people."
Read full article onArs Technica
Canada's next proposal to censor the internet
July 30, 2021
"Unfortunately, the government hasn't given up."
Read full article onReclaim The Net
Money Reimagined: Can DeFi Stay Decentralized? | Opinion - CoinDesk
July 30, 2021
"Uniswap’s move to restrict investor access to certain tokens raises questions about DeFi's decentralization, says CoinDesk's chief content officer."
Read full article onCoinDesk
Twitter forced Dave Rubin to delete a tweet criticizing federal vaccine mandates
July 30, 2021
"Forced to erase a tweet that echoed points that have been reported by multiple mainstream media outlets."
Read full article onReclaim The Net
Northern Ireland admits vaccine passport data leak
July 30, 2021
"Another reason why vaccine passports are a bad idea."
Read full article onReclaim The Net
Google's Jigsaw proposes real-time, cross-platform monitoring of "hate clusters" to "disrupt their reach"
July 30, 2021
"Google's researchers aren't happy that users are migrating to platforms that don't censor "misinformation.""
Read full article onReclaim The Net
PM Orders Internet Blocked For Anyone Spreading Info That Might Frighten People | Chiang Mai News - Daily News Stories From Chiang Mai & Thailand
July 30, 2021
"Prime Minister Prayut Chan-o-cha has ordered internet service providers to immediately block the internet access of anyone who propagates information that may frighten people. The order, issued under"
Read full article onChiang Mai One
DHS’s Flawed Plan for Mobile Driver’s Licenses
July 29, 2021
"Digital identification can invade our privacy and aggravate existing social inequities. Designed wrong, it might be a big step towards national identification, in which every time we walk through a door or buy coffee, a record of the event is collected and aggregated. Also, any system that..."
Read full article onElectronic Frontier Foundation
New bill would force government to disclose online censorship requests
July 29, 2021
"Not that the Federal Government should be violating the First Amendment anyway."
Read full article onReclaim The Net