Online vitriol could undo decades of political progress, warns Dutch deputy PM social media Article 1006 words 18 votes
Fact sheet: US President Joe Biden issues executive order on safe, secure, and trustworthy artificial intelligence Article 1522 words 24 votes
Finland faces growing Russian online threat, Finnish security services say – espionage attempts have increased since Ukraine invasion security.cyber Article 584 words 22 votes
Taylor Swift managed to drive record-breaking numbers to voter registration website Vote.org after urging her 232 million followers on Instagram to take action social media Article 67 votes
UK's Online Safety Bill: Crackdown on harmful social media content agreed social media Article 741 words 27 votes
Australia tells dating apps to improve safety standards to protect users from sexual violence Article 631 words 12 votes
Local governments aren't businesses – so why are they force-fed business software? Article 812 words 31 votes
Twitter accused of helping Saudi Arabia commit human rights abuses social media Article 1155 words 21 votes
Following Elon Musk’s lead, Big Tech is surrendering to disinformation social media Article 2646 words 35 votes
When Instagram was used for government communication social media Article 331 words, published Jul 31 2023 6 votes
The US tech industry has largely co-opted the once-dreaded “patchwork” of state rules through effective lobbying— and its success is sapping momentum for federal legislation privacy Article 1674 words 7 votes
US Special Counsel got a search warrant for Twitter to turn over info on Donald Trump’s account social media Article 490 words 40 votes
White House unveils ban on US investment in Chinese tech sectors linked to the military Article 599 words 41 votes
A pro-Putin Facebook network is pumping French-language propaganda into Africa. The pages promote Russia’s line on the war in Ukraine to more than four million followers... social media facebook Article 2050 words, published Aug 3 2023 40 votes
Hackers exploited a zero-day flaw in Ivanti's software undetected for at least three months, US and Norwegian cybersecurity agencies warn security.cyber Article 456 words 14 votes
How Big Tech rewrote the USA's first cellphone repair law Article 2009 words, published Feb 8 2023 11 votes
A new bill would force internet companies in the USA to spy on their users for the Drug Enforcement Administration internet privacy Article 1935 words 45 votes
Far-right Twitter influencers first on Elon Musk’s monetization scheme social media Article 1141 words 70 votes
French government could cut off social media during unrest, says Emmanuel Macron social media Article 894 words 12 votes
Denmark's prime minister Mette Frederiksen wrote part of a speech using OpenAI's chatbot ChatGPT to highlight the risks of artificial intelligence Article 396 words 3 votes
Norway's $1.4tn wealth fund calls for state regulation of AI – Nicolai Tangen says fund will set guidelines for companies it invests in on ethical use of AI Article 290 words 4 votes
By more than two-to-one, Americans support US government banning TikTok social media privacy Article 1136 words, published Mar 31 2023 17 votes
Once praised for its generous social safety net, Denmark now collects troves of data on welfare claimants Article 2339 words, published Mar 7 2023 10 votes
Danish parliament urges lawmakers and employees to remove TikTok on work phones as a cybersecurity measure, saying “there is a risk of espionage” social media security.cyber privacy Article 263 words 4 votes
Researchers have been given a £420,000 grant to explore the potential use of a blockchain-based voting system in Greenland Article 346 words 3 votes
Just days after promising advertisers that Twitter would not be a “free-for-all,” Elon Musk promoted a right-wing rumor about the vicious hammer assault on Paul Pelosi social media Article 307 words 29 votes
A growing share of TikTok's adult users say they regularly get news on the site, bucking the trend on other social media platforms social media Article 476 words, published Oct 21 2022 7 votes
New political party in Denmark, whose policies are derived entirely from artificial intelligence, hopes to stand in the country's next general election in June 2023 Article 357 words, published Aug 5 2022 10 votes
Finland's parliament hit with cyberattack following US move to admit the country to NATO security.cyber Article 391 words 7 votes
Two US senators propose ban on data caps, blasting ISPs for “predatory” limits Article 659 words 18 votes
"Letter in Support of Responsible Fintech Policy" - Twenty-six well-known computer scientists send letter to Congress urging them to resist crypto lobbying Article 1887 words 11 votes
Big Telecom convinces Missouri lawmakers to block funding for broadband competition internet Article 5 votes
/r/antiwork: A tragedy of sanewashing and social gentrification social media Article 4297 words, published Feb 8 2022 19 votes
How Beijing influences the influencers social media facebook Article 2037 words, published Dec 14 2021 5 votes
Microsoft, Google, Facebook and other tech firms are pressing lawmakers to stop prosecutors from secretly snooping on private accounts microsoft google facebook privacy Article 2167 words 3 votes
Why Telegram had to follow Apple and Google when they suspended a voting app social media apple google Article 1065 words 9 votes
Facebook paid FTC $4.9B more than required to shield Mark Zuckerberg, lawsuit alleges facebook privacy social media Article 985 words 11 votes
Canadians Michael Spavor and Michael Kovrig, detained in China almost three years, now on plane home. Chinese tech executive Meng Wangzhou left Canada earlier Friday evening. Article 28 words 15 votes
Google, Apple remove Alexei Navalny app from stores as Russian elections begin apple google Article 210 words 13 votes
Sophie Zhang risked everything to expose how Facebook enables global political manipulation. Now she’s telling her story. facebook social media Article 3493 words 14 votes