Tracking cars by the TPMS. Lawsuit against Flock. Meta “Data Annotators” see you having sex. South Korea lost some seized cryptocurrency. Florida has a problem with nurses having free speech. The UK has a problem with anyone having free speech.
Censorship in social media now serving to quash corporate criticism. The cloud is now a literal military target. More age verification fuckery. Keep your personal and work devices separate.
Listener letter: Julie Bernstein
Pwns: Stryker, Signal (sorta), US Government.
Fail: North Dakota, Tennessee
Links:
I traced $2 billion in nonprofit grants and 45 states of lobbying records to figure out who’s behind the age verification bills. The answer involves a company that profits from your data writing laws that collect more of it. [PDF] [Internet Archive]
I pulled the actual bill text from 5 state age verification laws. They’re copy-pasted from two templates. Meta is funding one to dodge ~$50B in COPPA fines — and the other one covers Linux. [PDF] [Internet Archive]
Follow-up to my bill text comparison: I traced who wrote the OS-level age verification template that covers Linux. Meta, Google, and Snap all supported it. [PDF] [Internet Archive]
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