AB 1856 excludes open-source operating systems from the upcoming Digital Age Assurance Act.

The social app’s porous data security could undermine trust. Its decentralized vision won’t matter if users feel their content is AI fodder without consent.

Alt: Amanda Cerny's Shout Out to Mass-Holes

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System76 CEO Carl Richell shares how the open source community successfully worked with legislators in Colorado and California to secure exemptions from age attestation laws, and why the fight to prot...

Trump Mobile is reportedly exposing sensitive customer information through an easily exploitable flaw on its website.

LinkedIn's hidden JavaScript system scans Chrome users for 6,167 browser extensions — including religious, political, and job-hunting tools — without consent. A class action lawsuit filed in Californi...

Phase 2 of New Mexico v. Meta opened May 4 in Santa Fe before Judge Bryan Biedscheid. The state laid out a sweeping remedies wishlist — a 90-hour monthly cap on minors, no autoplay, no infinite scroll, no push notifications during school or sleep, age verification, an end to end-to-end encryption for under-18s, and a court-appointed monitor. Meta says the demands are technically impossible. The judge has three weeks to decide.

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There is a bill working its way through the House right now called the Parents Decide Act, or H.R. 8250. It would require every operating system in the United States to verify the age of every user…

Healey's bill seeks to force social media companies to implement “age assurance” systems and disable common features like infinite scroll for young users.

New polling results show strong support among voters for legislation restricting social media use among kids and teens.

Now I know I’m not supposed to say this as a poet but there are entirely too many easy metaphors at play in real life of late. Cut the shit with all the big dangling meatball over the plate metaphors....

There have been 14 documented incidents where police officers used automatic license plate readers to stalk romantic interests.