There has been a raft of site-blocking bills in the latest Congress, and the latest is called the “Deterring Extraterritorial Foreign Exploitation of Networks Damaging Intellectual Property” aka the “...

The agency approved a request for foreign investors to indirectly hold a non-voting stake in excess of 25% in the aggregate

The slick voter registration website, currently being promoted to millions of people, is a digital surveillance machine.

Discord age verification now locks stage channels, DMs, and adult content behind four ID methods — each with different privacy trade-offs worth knowing.

Just so we're clear: pre-merger promises (especially in the media and telecom sectors) are absolutely worthless. There's fifty years of indisputable evidence that all of the "synergies" and innovative improvements promised on the front end of major media mergers mean absolutely nothing. Especially in a country dead-set on defanging its labor and consumer protection regulators.To...

ALT: Jeremy Clarkson's Oh No! Anyway - Top Gear

From the very beginning of this recent obsession with identifying everyone online (yes, they like to call it "age" verification, but it always ends up as identity verification), we've been pointing out that it was a huge privacy nightmare waiting to happen. Or maybe it wasn't waiting. Maybe it was already happening. This week a...

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Six years ago, when Trump first tried to force ByteDance to sell TikTok’s US operations to his billionaire buddy Larry Ellison at Oracle, we wondered if this would finally get Oracle to chang…

The Illinois legislature recently passed House Bill 5511, which imposes a sweeping, device-level age-gating framework across nearly all internet-enabled hardware, operating systems, and online service...

Big Tech Lobbying if you want to call it that has been exposed for its data protection issues. A Reddit researcher just did what regulators, journalists, and consumer advocates have struggled to do fo...

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A Florida Republican's defense bill amendment summary went viral after its text revealed the office had submitted AI output — complete with a chatbot label — without editing a word.Rep. Anna Paulina L...

Here lies darkness.

The NO FAKES Act is supposed to target harmful AI-generated impersonations. But in reality, it will make it easier to suppress commentary, satire, and other lawful speech. That's why EFF has signed a ...