📰 Big Tech, DHS Cooperation & Digital ID Push | Reboot's News Round-Up 📰
Rating system;
🔴 - Important/Urgent/Imminent
🟠 - Approaching/Noteworthy/Planned
🟢 - Good News
🟢👀 - Good news but beware
🔴🔴🔴🔴 - Law Enforcement Now Taking Note of Anti-AI Sentiment
When the rights of AI begin to outweigh your right to free speech.
🔴🔴🔴🔴 - Oracle co-founder Larry Ellison Says Citizens will be on their best behaviour
"We’re constantly recording and reporting everything that is going on"
🔴🔴🔴🔴 - Reddit, Meta, and Google Voluntarily Gave DHS Info of Anti-ICE Users
Big Tech identifying details of users critical of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE).
🔴🔴🔴 - Texas Enforce App Store Age Checks
Texas can start forcing app stores to check the age of everyone who wants to download an app.
🔴🔴🔴 - Samsung Throws Its Support Behind Digital ID
Samsung wants your passport living inside your phone and it has handed the keys to a private company called CLEAR.
🔴🔴🔴 - Seattle Children’s Hospital Spied on Searches
A snippet of code sat quietly on the hospital's site and mailed every parent's search straight to Facebook for ad-targeting.
🔴🔴 - Did you know?
Channels you subscribe to on Youtube collect names, mailing addresses, residential addresses, business addresses, email addresses, telephone numbers, and IP addresses?
🟢 - DuckDuckGo Installs Surge 30.5% After Google AI Search Overhaul
Google is replacing traditional search with an AI agent, people have had enough and are seeking private alternatives. You should too.
🟢👀 - California’s New OS Age-Verification Bill Excludes Linux
Great news for Linux users but the bill will target browsers too so ditch big tech's and use Librewolf. California is a testing ground for this so expect it in the UK and Europe in due course.
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