After years of failed promises on transit, Silicon Valley is loading cars with new technologies to get a cut of the profits—and to collect data on us.
Big Tech Is Watching You as You Drive (archived)
Tag: Internet
Cuba Says Biden Applies Blockade Even More Aggressively Than His Predecessors
Biden has maintained many of Trump’s sanctions against Cuba. He must fulfill his promise to reverse Trump’s actions.
Cuba Says Biden Applies Blockade Even More Aggressively Than His Predecessors
EU capitals want media law carve-out to spy on reporters
European Union governments want to be able to spy on reporters in the name of national security, even as lawmakers urge them to crack down on spyware.
EU capitals want media law carve-out to spy on reporters
The Coming Fight Over American Surveillance
The Coming Fight Over American Surveillance
But no threat of any kind is required to conduct surveillance under Section 702. The law permits surveillance of any foreigner abroad, as long as a significant purpose of the surveillance is to acquire “foreign intelligence information.” FISA defines this term extremely broadly to include any “information related to . . . the conduct of U.S. foreign affairs.” A conversation between friends about whether the United States should do more to support Ukraine would justify surveillance under this definition.
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NATO to Build Center for Pipeline Protection
The North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) has agreed to establish a center to protect critical undersea infrastructure such as pipelines citing risks of attack by Russia.
NATO to Build Center for Pipeline Protection
Navy probe prompted by suicides condemns conditions at shipyard: ‘We let our people down’ + The Brandon Act
Navy probe prompted by suicides condemns conditions at shipyard: ‘We let our people down’
EDITOR’S NOTE — This story includes discussion of suicide. If you or someone you know needs help, please call the Suicide and Crisis Lifeline. This is a hotline for individuals in crisis or for those looking to help someone else. To speak with a trained listener, call 988. Service members and veterans can call 988 and then press “1”. There is also an online chat at 988lifeline.org
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If you or someone you know in the military needs help, contact the Veterans Crisis Hotline at 800-273-8255, on veteranscrisisline.net, or by texting 838255. Civilians can text “STRENGTH” to the Crisis Text Line at 741-741.
Google bans Downloader app after TV firms complain it can load a pirate website
The Google Play Store suspended an app that combines a web browser with a file manager after a Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) complaint pointed out that the app is capable of loading a piracy website—even though that same pirate website can be loaded on any standard browser, including Google Chrome.
Google bans Downloader app after [Israeli] TV firms complain it can load a pirate website
The Stupidity Of Making Porn Filters Mandatory On Mobile Devices (And Other Musings On Reality)
Lawmakers in the Alabama state legislature have voted for a bill that would require parental controls and NSFW content filters to be enabled on every phone and tablet sold in the state. House Bill (HB) 298, or the Protection of Minors from Unfiltered Devices Act, cleared the state House with an overwhelming 70-8 vote, with two dozen members abstaining from voting, last week. Now in the Senate, HB 298 is seeing success after the bill’s sole sponsor, state Rep. Chris Sells, failed in some previous legislative sessions to push this legislation to approval.
The Stupidity Of Making Porn Filters Mandatory On Mobile Devices (And Other Musings On Reality)
Heritage Foundation Says That Of Course GOP Will Use KOSA To Censor LGBTQ Content
We’ve talked a lot about KOSA, the “Kids Online Safety Act” that has massive bipartisan support in Congress. The latest version was introduced with 26 Senators as sponsors or co-sponsors. We’ve explained over and over again how the bill is unconstitutional and will actually do a lot to harm kids.
Heritage Foundation Says That Of Course GOP Will Use KOSA To Censor LGBTQ Content
Pakistan lurches to dictatorial rule as authorities launch vendetta against Imran Khan and supporters of his Islamic populist PTI
The long simmering political crisis in Pakistan is now boiling over. Terrified that the campaign of ex-Prime Minister Imran Khan for immediate new elections could inadvertently precipitate an explosion of mass working class anger against brutal IMF-dictated austerity, soaring food prices and mass joblessness, the government and military are resorting to dictatorial forms of rule.
Pakistan lurches to dictatorial rule as authorities launch vendetta against Imran Khan and supporters of his Islamic populist PTI
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