The Engineer Who Tried to Put Age Verification Into Linux
He read the law, took it at face value, and started writing code. The word for what that is sits somewhere past malice, something more insidious: an engineer who treats…
ORACLE’S LARRY ELLISON: “Citizens will be on their best behavior” with AI surveillance systems
“We’re constantly recording and reporting everything that’s going on.”
A new California law says all operating systems, including Linux, need to have some form of age verification at account setup
The government of California is implementing a law that requires operating system providers to implement some form of age verification into their account setup procedures. Assembly Bill No. 1043 was…
Hackers Expose Age-Verification Software Powering Surveillance Web
Together with two other researchers, they set out to look into Persona, the San Francisco-based startup that’s used by Discord for biometric identity verification – and found a Persona frontend…
Discord’s age verification rollout has ties to Palantir co-founder and panopticon architect Peter Thiel
Last week, Discord invited the contempt of its users by announcing it will be rolling out global age verification restrictions in March, which will restrict viewable content and communities for…
Don Lemon speaks outside of the courtroom after release
"I will not be silenced.”
Surveillance isn’t “out there” anymore
it’s on our streets
Flock Safety and Texas Sheriff Claimed License Plate Search Was for a Missing Person. It Was an Abortion Investigation.
New documents and court records obtained by EFF show that Texas deputies queried Flock Safety's surveillance data in an abortion investigation, contradicting the narrative promoted by the company and the…
Who is Larry Ellison?
Here’s everything you need to know about the billionaire IDF donor who may soon have the keys to the TikTok algorithm in the US.
Murdoch’s TikTok? Trump offers allies another lever of media control
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