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EU Court Recognizes VPNs as a Legitimate Technical Tool
The Court of Justice of the European Union has ruled that VPN publishers and providers are not liable for copyright infringement by users who circumvent geographical restrictions.
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Google to Roll Out Age Verification on Android Worldwide by Year's End
The company is opening its Play Age Signals API to all developers and plans a global launch by the end of 2026, starting with Australia and Canada.
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New York Will Require Age Verification for Algorithmic Social Media Feeds
To see an Instagram or TikTok feed curated by an algorithm, or to get notifications after midnight, residents of the state will have to verify their age. The SAFE for Kids Act takes effect on January 25, 2027.
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Claude's public links pushed users' chats into Google search
Claude users are creating public links to their conversations without realizing that their chats and the projects they've built become accessible to anyone through Google's search results.
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Cognyte Sells a Mobile Cell-Phone Surveillance System
The Israeli company Cognyte supplies police with FalcoNet, a device that mimics a cell tower and forces nearby phones to connect to it. A contract with the state of Texas has revealed the details of how the system works.
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Apple Delays Its Smart Glasses to Sort Out Privacy
According to Bloomberg, Apple has pushed the launch of its first smart glasses to late 2027 — in part to work out privacy protections and avoid repeating Meta's reputational troubles.
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US Charges a Citizen Over a Password That Wiped His Phone at the Border
Sam Tewnick gave agents a “duress password” that erased his GrapheneOS smartphone. Now he faces charges under a rarely used law on destroying evidence.
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Hunting Flock Cameras: An Anti-Surveillance Movement Gains Ground in the US
Across America, activists are disabling the automatic license-plate readers made by Flock, and the authorities are already treating the fight against them as a matter of national security.
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Tile Trackers' Poor Security Turns Out to Be a Gift for Stalkers
Adafruit draws attention to the vulnerabilities of Tile Bluetooth trackers: their weak security essentially plays into the hands of those who use such devices to spy on people.
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Librarians Are Teaching Americans to Switch Off AI — and the Rooms Are Packed
Free “Avoiding AI” workshops have become an unexpected hit at U.S. libraries: hundreds of people are showing up to learn how to turn off the artificial-intelligence features being foisted on them.
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Vietnam proposes not to banish children from social media, but to mute them
Vietnamese authorities are preparing an unusual set of restrictions: teenagers would keep their accounts but lose the ability to post anything. The country joins a growing list of states that limit children's access to social media.
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European Commission tells TikTok to make child protection the default
The European Commission's preliminary findings under the Digital Services Act point to one conclusion: minors' accounts on TikTok are too open. Non-compliance could cost the platform a fine of up to 6% of its global annual turnover.
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Drones Instead of Patrols: Aerial Response Programs Surge in the U.S.
After the FAA streamlined its approval process, more than a thousand agencies won the right to launch autonomous police drones. The EFF warns of a new wave of surveillance from the sky.
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LG monitors were quietly installing an app on Windows that advertised McAfee
Some LG monitors were silently installing a program on connected computers through Windows Update that displayed ads for McAfee antivirus. After the story went public, Microsoft said LG would disable the pop-ups.
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U.S. Appeals Court: Manual Phone Search at the Border Requires No Suspicion
The Fourth Circuit has ruled that border agents may manually browse a traveler's smartphone without a warrant and without any suspicion. The EFF, which took part in the case, calls the decision disappointing.
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EU Court Recognizes VPNs as a Lawful Technical Tool
In a case about a digital edition of Anne Frank's diaries, the European Court of Justice ruled that VPN providers are not liable for users who circumvent geoblocking, and that the mere existence of VPNs does not render a site's protective measures ineffective.
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Firefox 153 Released: JPEG XL, PDF Tools, and Restrictions for Extensions
Mozilla has released Firefox 153.0. Among the new features are experimental support for JPEG XL, tools for merging PDFs, and tighter access restrictions for extensions.
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Britain Scraps Digital ID Cards Under Pressure of Nearly 3 Million Signatures
The UK's new government has wound down a digital identity programme that sparked mass resistance, redirecting the savings toward lowering electricity bills.
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MIT Is Rolling Out a Network of 500 Cameras with AI Recognition
According to the student newspaper The Tech, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology is spending more than $3 million on a video surveillance system capable of classifying people by clothing, gender and age.
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ACLU: Camera maker Flock systematically lies to governments and police
Civil-rights advocates at the ACLU have accused Flock Safety, a supplier of automated license-plate recognition systems, of a string of knowingly false statements to city councils, police, and the public.
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