Olives @olives@qoto.org

https://reason.com/2024/02/26/feds-target-journalist-tim-burke-with-law-intended-for-hackers/ What do you think of this case? #FirstAmendment

https://reclaimthenet.org/avast-anti-virus-company-is-fined-for-tracking-and-selling-user-data

"Avast, a well-known cybersecurity firm, has been confronted with a $16.5 million penalty from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC)."

"Contrary to the firm’s promise of guarding consumer data against tracking on the web, the FTC claimed that they’ve been acting against their word. They’ve allegedly been gathering and marketing user browsing data unbeknownst to the users, and additionally misleading them."

#privacy

Wondering where to stay during #LibrePlanet2024, where to eat, and how to get around Boston? Answers to all your questions can be found at https://libreplanet.org/2024/getting-around/

https://ccla.org/press-release/ccla-urges-substantial-amendments-to-the-online-harms-act/
"This is a massive bill that we need to examine in greater detail. Our preliminary read raises several serious concerns. While the CCLA endorses the declared purposes of upholding public safety, protecting children, and supporting marginalized communities, our initial assessment reveals that the bill includes overbroad violations of expressive freedom, privacy, protest rights, and liberty."

Canadian Civil Liberties Association comments on why the new bill is bad. #canada

Don't know what is up with that snippet (which clearly doesn't match the link), looks like a bug.

If you're curious about the sorts of people who push for these sorts of things, one who appeared before parliamentarians is the U.K.-based Vice-President of an American bunch of Christian fundamentalists known as NCOSE (formerly known as Morality in Media)*, Haley McNamara.

These politicians also voice "concern" about something, then they push for broader censorship than that. For instance, this "baroness" appears to be looking to censor vast swathes of content. It is an extreme attack on free expression.

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Center_on_Sexual_Exploitation
#ukpol

24/7 GPS monitoring of migrants enabled the UK Home Office to collect vast amounts of personal data, invading people’s privacy and inflicting psychological burdens.

It’s a punitive and offensive measure that has rightly been found unlawful by the Information Commissioner’s Office.

#migrants #ukpolitics #surveillance #privacy #GPS #GDPR

https://www.wired.com/story/gps-ankle-tags-uk-privacy-illegal/

They also conflate real content with fantasy content, rely on misleading misrepresentations of the effects on porn, and typically, people like this conflate animated violence with realistic violence, and mild "aggression" with what might more typically be viewed as "aggression". To put it simply, it is a mess, and extremely problematic.

As it turns out though, they're looking for submissions. #ukpol