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  Yikes, Encryption’s Y2K Moment is Coming Years Early

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  Whistleblower reveals how Morocco used a web of surveillance to silence journalists and activists

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  Returning from vacation? The government can search your phone without a warrant.

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  Automatic Transmission — a data-privacy study of connected vehicles

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  Initial thoughts on the EU KIDS Act

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  Joint Letter Sent to Voice Concerns Over Bill C-22

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  25 Years of Mass Surveillance Is Enough

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  New Europol proposal pushes for deregulation and more AI in policing

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  25 Years of Mass Surveillance Is Enough

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  Open letter from European civil society organisations on encryption and privacy threats in Canada’s Bill C-22

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  Government surveillance after 9/11 is a hotter debate than ever

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  A List of ICE Subpoenas to Tech Companies

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  Hint: photo and video evidence has only been a thing for less than 200 years when photos and videos were invented. So if humanity managed without it before that, it can do so again.

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  Canonical-Server: Massive Cyberattacke läuft

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  The countries that were ruled as single-party states by communist parties in the 20th century, including those that survive until today, called themselves "socialist" and called the goal they were supposedly working towards "communism". Of course all of this ideology was always nonsense. The liberal revolutions of the centuries before that were all about taking power away from the (monarchical/aristocratic) government in order to establish a society in which the government w...

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  California’s 3D Printer Law Would Criminalize Open Source, Enshittify The 3D Printing Space

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  I think you may be looking for this: https://ourworldindata.org/births-and-deaths

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  Is WLBR supposed to be an abbreviation for something? I realize it is a reference to the mascot Wilber, but apart from that?

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  With chat control we actually have to distinguish two different things that people sometimes confuse: - voluntary chat control ("chat control 1.0"), which is currently already the law in the EU - mandatory chat control ("chat control 2.0"), proposed in 2022 Voluntary chat control is about *letting* operators of communication services *voluntarily* scan messages for certain illegal activity (without this constituting a violation of data protection laws). This doesn't bre...

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  Yes; recent news have made me somewhat optimistic that the resistance to it is winning though. Age verification laws currently look like a much greater danger to freedom.

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  2000s: war on general purpose computing because of copyright 2020s: war on general purpose computing because of child protection In the 2000s the forces of freedom mostly won, e.g. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consumer_Broadband_and_Digital_Television_Promotion_Act didn't become law. So far it seems that we are currently losing. :(

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  Frankreichs Plan: Weg von Windows, hin zu Linux

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  „Der nächste große Schritt“: GOG Galaxy soll offenbar auf Linux portiert werden

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  Minister: Estonia does not support EU's private chat monitoring policy

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