📰 Reboot's News Round-Up 📰
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Rating system;
🔴 - Important/Urgent/Imminent
🟠 - Approaching/Noteworthy/Planned
🟢 - Good News
🟢👀 - Good news but beware
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🔴🔴🔴🔴🔴 - September, UK Digital Privacy Is Over
Five red 🔴, the highest alert for news affecting our privacy.
If you are not focusing on the news released this week by the UK government, you risk being blindsided because by September 2026, EVERY smart mobile device including Android and Apple, new and secondhand will receive a forced overnight update.
This update will block access to your device, it's OS, apps and content until you verify your age.
UK's government force tech executives to implement this or face 5 years jail time.
You WILL NOT be able to avoid this update if you use a standard device.
This is biometric ID gathering on an unprecedented level.
We at Reboot Privacy don't just provide the news we also provide the solutions. See base of post for details.
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🔴🔴🔴🔴 - Starmer Sets Social Media Ban For Under-16s For springtime next year
Snapchat, TikTok, YouTube, Instagram, X and Facebook will all be blocked for under-16s. Gaming and AI chatbots will be banned for under-18s.
However every adult will have to verify they are not underage. Once your ID is given, you're never getting it back.
🔴🔴🔴🔴 - Stifling The Beautiful Game ⚽️
UK regulator targets world cup social media speech. Ofcom flexes it's muscles and demands social media sites set targets for removing World Cup chatter they deem unsavoury.
🔴🔴🔴 - Can You See the Dots Connecting?
Google is volunteering to broker your legal identity for every ordinary thing you do online making them the ID checkpoint required by all these age verification laws.
🔴🔴🔴 - Canada's "Bill C-34" Requires ID or Face Scans For Social Media
Same 💩 different country.
Canada becomes the latest to try to end online anonymity under the banner of protecting children.
🔴🔴 - Revolut - New AI features enabled
A Reboot member posted details of this new feature enabled by default and how to turn it off.
If you use Revolut bank, you do not want AI analysing your transactions.
🔴🔴 - Germany Fines Citizens a Month’s Wages for Insulting Chancellor Merz on Facebook
The fine isn't really about the money, it's about teaching everyone else to never criticize power.
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