Goodbye, floppies - San Francisco pays Hitachi $212 million to remove 5.25-inch disks from its light rail service Article 428 words 30 votes
Norway is to enforce a strict minimum age limit on social media of fifteen as the government ramped up its campaign against tech companies it says are “pitted against small children's brains” social media Article 508 words 32 votes
The US government wants to make it easier for you to click the 'unsubscribe' button Article 563 words 58 votes
Tech giants should be made subject to a global tax for their use of people's personal data, according to Norway's Finance Minister Trygve Slagsvold Vedum Link 30 votes
New York passes legislation that would ban 'addictive' social media algorithms for kids social media Article 789 words 51 votes
Minnesota repeals law that protected ISPs from municipal competition internet Article 576 words, published May 24 2024 22 votes
US Congress approves bill banning TikTok unless Chinese owner ByteDance sells platform social media Link 69 votes
US FCC to vote to restore net neutrality rules years after the agency voted to repeal them internet Article 1236 words 82 votes
Florida latest to restrict social media for kids as legal battle looms social media Article 1047 words 22 votes
Once more with feeling: Banning TikTok is unconstitutional and won’t do shit to deal with any actual threats social media Article 24 votes
House passes bill that could ban TikTok in the US, sending it to the Senate social media Article 795 words 45 votes
European Union approves landmark AI law, leapfrogging US to regulate critical but worrying new technology Article 26 votes
White House urges use of type safe and memory safe programming languages and hardware security.cyber PDF 38 votes
"By all means, go after big tech. But for the love of the next generation, don’t pretend that it’s going to help vulnerable youth." social media Article 3142 words 33 votes
Privacy win: EU Parliament decides that your private messages must not be scanned privacy Article 2483 words 34 votes
Fact sheet: US President Joe Biden issues executive order on safe, secure, and trustworthy artificial intelligence Article 1522 words 24 votes
UK's Online Safety Bill: Crackdown on harmful social media content agreed social media Article 741 words 27 votes
France’s browser-based website blocking proposal will set a disastrous precedent for the open internet internet.open browsers Article 924 words, published Jun 26 2023 49 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
French government could cut off social media during unrest, says Emmanuel Macron social media Article 894 words 12 votes
Japan to open up Apple- and Google-dominated phone app payments to competition apple google Article 193 words 8 votes
Denmark aims to raise the age limit for the collection of personal data from children by tech giants google Article 284 words 27 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
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
King County, WA is first in the country to ban government use of facial recognition software privacy Link 15 votes
Supreme Court of the United States Justice Clarence Thomas argues for regulating large internet platforms as common carriers internet Article 535 words 21 votes
Big Tech critic Tim Wu joins Joe Biden administration to work on US competition policy Article 419 words 9 votes
Joe Manchin's bid to pierce US tech's shield internet Article 234 words, published Feb 1 2021 4 votes
US President Joe Biden's FCC appointment is a big step toward net neutrality's return internet Article 736 words 10 votes
Trump promises to veto crucial defense-spending bill unless it includes a full repeal of CDA 230, the law that protects online platforms from liability social media internet Article 916 words 27 votes
EARN IT Act introduced in House of Representatives internet security privacy Article 247 words 37 votes
President Trump is continuing his war on Section 230 and the right for the open internet to exist privacy internet social media Article 1029 words 8 votes
A crash course in CDA Section 230, and a discussion between two lawyers about the EARN IT Act and what it means for free speech and privacy online privacy security internet Video 1:08:34, published Aug 22 2020 5 votes
US phone carriers may soon be able to block all calls from robocallers' carriers Article 593 words, published Jul 17 2020 16 votes
United Kingdom to ban Huawei equipment in 2021 and remove it from 5G networks by 2027 Article 388 words 6 votes
Terrible, dangerous EARN IT act set to move forward in the senate; attack on both encryption and free speech online social media internet privacy Article 511 words 27 votes