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London's police asked Big Tech for comms data over 700,000 times last year
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A Freedom of Information Act request shows the extent of the surveillance
Dark Reading
Google, Meta, and Microsoft about half the time don't comply with requests to opt out of online tracking per a California law mandate, privacy watchdog finds.
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Open Rights Group says years of reliance on US giants have left Britain exposed Britain has spent years wiring its public sector into US Big Tech, and a new report says that dependence could quickly become a national security headache.…
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Appearing before Parliament, Meta, Google and X struggle to explain how fake political video circulated for so long A member of the UK Parliament's lower house who was the victim of a deepfake AI campaign this week had a rare chance to confront the Big Tech executives who helped spread it. Their answers disappointed.…
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The Electronic Frontier Foundation is urging major technology companies to follow through on their promises to implement end-to-end encryption by default across their services, as privacy concerns mount amid increased AI use.
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Lobbying efforts gain ground as proposals carve myriad holes into regulations Privacy advocates are condemning the European Commission's leaked plans to overhaul digital privacy legislation, accusing officials of bypassing proper legislative processes to favor Big Tech interests.…
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Suggests using multiple overlapping approaches and being kind to kids who get kicked off Australia’s eSafety commissioner has told social media operators it expects them to employ multiple age assurance techniques and technologies to keep children under sixteen off social media, as required by local law from December 10th.…
Krebs on Security
In May 2025, the U.S. government sanctioned a Chinese national for operating a cloud provider linked to the majority of virtual currency investment scam websites reported to the FBI. But more than a month later, the accused continues to openly operate accounts at a slew of American tech companies, including Facebook, Github, LinkedIn, PayPal and Twitter/X.
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That niche forum running for 20 years – get ready, there's work to do A little more than two months out from its first legal deadline, the UK’s Online Safety Act is causing concern among smaller online forums caught within its reach. The legislation, which came into law in the autumn of 2023, applies to search services and services that allow users to post content online or to interact with each other.… Analysis
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That land exists – in China, where the government is cracking down on the things that make the internet no fun Internet echo chambers and nasty e-commerce tricks that analyze your behavior to milk you for more cash are set to be banned – in China.…