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.
Facebook employees were caught spying on users
July 17, 2021
"Using the treasure trove of data to spy on unsuspecting users."
Read full article onReclaim The Net
Governments are using credit card purchase data as "contact tracing' COVID surveillance
July 16, 2021
"Invasive."
Read full article onReclaim The Net
ProtonVPN’s new macOS and iOS update helps bypass censorship
July 16, 2021
"Useful for those in countries where the government are blocking certain websites."
Read full article onReclaim The Net
Florida Tells Court: Actually, It's Section 230 That's Unconstitutional (Not Our Social Media Law)
July 16, 2021
"As you'll recall, Florida's social media bill was declared unconstitutional by a federal judge a couple weeks ago. The state has already moved to appeal that decision, so we'll have to see how the judges on the 11th Circuit feel about..."
Read full article onTechdirt.
Biden's Press Secretary admits Federal Government is flagging content for Facebook to censor
July 15, 2021
"The announcement is raising First Amendment violation flags."
Read full article onReclaim The Net
Article 17 Copyright Directive: The Court of Justice’s Advocate General Rejects Fundamental Rights Challenge But Defends Users Against Overblocking
July 15, 2021
"The Advocate General (AG) of the EU Court of Justice today missed an opportunity to fully protect internet users from censorship by automated filtering, finding that the disastrous Article 17 of the EU Copyright Directive doesn’t run afoul of Europeans’ free expression rights. The good news is that..."
Read full article onElectronic Frontier Foundation
YouTube censors Dr. Drew (again) for "medical misinformation"
July 15, 2021
"Once again."
Read full article onReclaim The Net
France takes to the streets to protest vaccine passports
July 14, 2021
"Citizens are speaking out against the crushing of civil liberties."
Read full article onReclaim The Net
Twitter Says Government Demands To Remove Tweets From Journalists, News Outlets Jump 26% - Activist Post
July 14, 2021
"Meanwhile, Twitter received over 14,500 requests for information between July 1 and Dec. 31, of which 30% of the requests were honored."
Read full article onActivist Post
Discord acquires AI censorship company
July 14, 2021
"A big switch to automatic censorship tech."
Read full article onReclaim The Net