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Taken from sources across the net, this is your weekly digital tech/privacy digest.
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Rating system;
🔴 - Important/Urgent/Imminent
🟠 - Approaching/Noteworthy/Planned
🟢 - Good News
🟢👀 - Good news but beware
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🔴🔴🔴 - UK Apple iPhone Users - Update 26.4 Changes Everything
Every UK Apple user has age verification imminent - Update 26.4 - It's age verification on your device.
Chaos has ensued however with failed face scans, rejected passports and forced content filters.
🔴🔴 - It's Confirmed - Meta and Youtube Design Addictive Products Which Cause Harm
The devices, services and platforms we use are addictive by design. Engagement = Profit.
🔴 - Keir Starmer says UK will ‘have to act’ to curb addictive features of social media
Threatening wording from the UK government after Meta and Google fined for designing addictive tech. Another opportunity to take more data from us all.
🔴 - AI written books almost undetectable
The future of human writers looks bleak. The dumbing down of the human mind continues apace.
🔴 - Hong Kong criminalises refusal to unlock your device
It's now a criminal act to refuse to unlock your device to Hong Kong police. Residents, tourists or connecting travellers must unlock their phone to police if requested or face up-to 1 year behind bars.
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🟢 👀 - European Parliament Rejects Mass “Chat Control”
The EU's mass, on-device, surveillance plan was rejected BY JUST ONE VOTE.
This was the 3rd time in quick succession it was voted on and each time the ''wins'' are getting narrower.
One vote separated Europeans from continued mass surveillance of their private communications by American tech companies.
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