Privacy Tablet Special Offer + Ooti's News Round-Up
Rating system;
🔴 - Important/Urgent/Imminent
🟠 - Approaching/Noteworthy/Planned
🟢 - Good News
🟢👀 - Good news but beware
🟢 - LIMITED STOCK - Reboot Privacy Tablets + FREE Speaker/Charging Dock!
After a UK shortage, Ooti (our Reboot mascot) has sourced limited stock of these excellent privacy tablets.
Privacy Tablet 11" with 128GB Storage - £550
Privacy Tablet 11" with 256GB Storage - £650
**FREE Speaker and charging dock worth £100+ with every tablet order**
Those who recently purchased one without a dock will receive one as a gesture of goodwill. Watch your emails 😉
🔴🔴🔴🔴 - UK On-Device Scanning - "Groundbreaking Legislation" Incoming
A 3 month media/tech reporting blackout led to an announcement from government explaining that no breakthrough had been made on age verification and on-device scanning.
Now they threaten legislation to force big tech to scan your devices in real-time.
This gives us a window of opportunity. Learn Linux, ditch Android dump Apple.
🔴🔴🔴🔴 - Australia's Age Verification Fail - More Invasive Checks Incoming
Australia is the canary in the coalmine, the test-bed. Watch them closely to see where the UK is heading.
🔴🔴🔴 - Revolut's Biometric Bribe - For Coffee
If you are a Revolut customer, you could've opted-in using your app over the weekend and received a £1 speciality coffee. At the till, scan your face and receive your "gift".
Revolut say this is the first step in their "Pay With Smile" facial recognition checkout.
🔴🔴🔴 - Digital ID Age Checks Begin At Pubs In England And Wales
Now you don't need to carry ID, instead pull out your phone and let a 3rd party private company's app confirm your identity with a "medium level of confidence".
What could possibly go wrong?!
🔴🔴🔴 - Britain Is Building an Information Defense Center. Orwell Had Another Name for It
This centre will coordinate with intelligence agencies, government departments, the police, and social media companies, to “detect, attribute and disrupt” what the PM said are “hostile information attacks” that use deepfakes to damage British interests.
🔴🔴🔴 - UK Government’s Apple iCloud Backdoor Secrecy Called “Farcical” in Court
The British government’s policy of neither confirming nor denying that it had ordered Apple to put a backdoor into iCloud has been described as “farcical” during a court hearing.
If you didn't know, the UK want a key to your Apple iCloud account to snoop around but they forced Apple to keep quiet about it.
🔴🔴🔴 - AI Is All Over The ''Tech'' News, As If Nothing Else Matters
Taking The Guardian as an example, go to their Tech pages and out of the 16 front page stories, 14 are focused on AI….and none of them are positive.
Threats, rouge agents and even Billy Boy Gates warning of "a billion deaths".
Best to resist AI is what we say!
🟢🟢 - Utah Blocks Key Provision Of Age Verification and VPN Law
Utah’s attempt to locate everyone, everywhere, has run into the Constitution.