The UK Age‑Verification Bill will not protect kids, will mean less privacy and more censorship The new law forces users onto tiny, unregulated sites that can simply ignore the rules. Instead of keeping kids safe, it shoves them away from big, proven platforms and into corners of the web where age checks are non‑existent. And it's happing in countries all around the world This is a good explainer video from Techlore and well worth a watch https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/lb3Uo1Q__jE #DigitalFreedom #Privacy #OnlineSafety #UKLaw #StopCensorship

I stopped watching the news years ago and I'm better for it.

Age verification systems will create permanent records of user activity, compromising privacy and freedom of information. Governments and corporations are using the protection of children as a justification for widespread surveillance and censorship

The Michigan Supreme Court ruled that search warrants for digital devices must specify limitations to protect privacy, as outlined in the Fourth Amendment. In People v. Carson, the court determined that warrants should only allow access to data clearly connected to the crime being investigated.

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Fourth Amendment Victory: Michigan Supreme Court Reins in Digital Device Fishing Expeditions

When police have a warrant to search a phone, should they be able to see everything on the phone—from family photos to communications with your d...

Pre-crime AI technology is being marketed in the US following a tragic church attack in Minneapolis, with GIDEON's AI platform aiming to preemptively detect potential violent actors. @Marty Bent rightly warns that pre-crime AI, despite its potential to prevent attacks, will likely be used to curb speech and target individuals who criticize the power structure, similar to practices in Europe.

TFTC – Truth for the Commoner

Pre-Crime: Apparently Coming to the US Next Week

Not great, Bob!

The UK Government has secretly allowed police forces to search over 150 million UK passport and immigration database photos with “Orwellian” facial recognition technology for 6 years

Privacy International

Revealed: “Skyrocketing” scale of UK police's Secret Facial Recognition Searches of Passport and Immigration Databases

Freedom of Information (FOI) requests have revealed the rapidly increasing scale of police mass facial recognition searches against the passport an...

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WTF!

The Rage

DARPA To Launch Pre-Crime AML Program

The Department of Defense is planning to launch a new AML program that wants to stop money laundering before it happens.

"Unthinking respect for authority is the greatest enemy of truth" - Albert Einstein

I came across this video on @Marty Bent @TFTC and it is amazing. The perfect Orange Pilling tool!

Marathon is leveraging heat generated from its Bitcoin mining operations to warm approximately 80,000 homes in Finland. One of many uses for the heat generated by mining

Atlas21

Marathon heats 80,000 Finnish homes with Bitcoin mining heat

The U.S.-based company turns mining-generated heat into an energy resource, highlighting the industry's sustainability. Marathon Digital Holdi...

Really interesting insight into how bad Internet cencership actually is

Fountain

The Joe Rogan Experience • #2237 - Mike Benz • Listen on Fountain

Mike Benz is a former official with the U.S. Department of State and current Executive Director of the Foundation For Freedom Online, is a free spe...

A backdoor implemented by the government gets exploited by the bad guys. This is why you can't put a backdoor in encryption software, we've been saying this for years! Just to be clear, I am in no way saying that the government are the good guys.

No Bullshit Bitcoin

U.S. Officials Urge Americans to Use Encrypted Messaging Apps

This week, the FBI, the U.S. Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), along with partner agencies from New Zealand, Australia, and Cana...

Police use of face recognition technology (FRT) poses a particularly massive risk to our civil liberties, particularly for Black men and women and other marginalized communities Government use of FRT needs to be banned or it will be abused

Electronic Frontier Foundation

Weak "Guardrails" on Police Face Recognition Use Make Things Worse

Police use of face recognition technology (FRT) poses a particularly massive risk to our civil liberties, particularly for Black men and women and ...

A single custodian now controls the coinbase addresses of at least 9 pools, representing 47% of total hashrate. It's time to consider a different type of mining pool like Ocean.xyz Ocean is a non-custodial #bitcoin mining pool. It was relaunched recently by @Luke Dashjr @Bitcoin Mechanic with support from @jack https://twitter.com/mononautical/status/1777686545715089605

Scary and so wrong! https://www.972mag.com/lavender-ai-israeli-army-gaza/

Great episode @Daniel Prince with @Bitcoin Mechanic, @giacomozucco & @leo_haf. Very informative discussion about SPAM on bitcoin. If you are on the fence about this issue it's time to pick a side and support filtering out these types of transactions

#Bitcoin #Mining is not decentralised, the hashing is but only about 12 main mining pools construct the block templates and decide what transactions go in the blocks. That is way too much power in too few hands! Listen to @Bitcoin Mechanic explain the problems and solution to @Stephan Livera