🚨Meta's got a new "safety" update for teen accounts on Instagram...but they're not just selling parents new safety features, they're also selling parents the App Store Accountability Act (now being rebranded as the App Store Child Protection Act - the ASAA on steroids)
They also call on TikTok and YouTube to adopt the same data collection, age verification, and surveillance features they've added to their platforms as a result of the 52 AG $12B settlement...calling it "child safety."
Full breakdown: https://t.co/0cA4B3p89w
A 47-year-old man has been detained for damaging a government building with "construction machinery", police in China's Shaanxi province have said.
No one was injured in the incident, and no motive has been given.
"We will be banning under-16s from going to public parks in order to prevent them getting molested. We will also be banning all over-16s to prevent them doing the molesting, unless you give us a full 3D scan of your entire body. If you disagree with this you're a paedophile btw"
🚨UK Lawmakers Demand Spyware on Every UK Phone
Conservative peer John Nash and Labour MP Jess Phillips are leading a cross-party push to force scanning software onto every phone and tablet in Britain—including those already owned, via mandatory updates.
The tools would inspect every photo, video and livestream for child sexual abuse material, including AI-generated images, then block or blur matches.
Officials insist this protects children and can be done without privacy damage because nothing leaves the device. Detecting the illegal content still requires examining everything else first.
Even if it catches some abusers, it still plants a permanent state examiner inside the private camera roll on the phone you own.
@BenBrodyDC@SenTedCruz KOSA is why the GOP lost in this round. Everything else we are doing no worse than Autopen so they are not reasons to switch. It's Ted Cruz, Blackburn and the authoritarian snakes colluding with Bluemental to rape our Bill of Rights with Digital age ID censorship+surveillence
MPs and peers want mandatory scanning software on every phone and tablet in the UK, including the one already in your pocket. It would inspect every photo, video and livestream on the device. The government promises this can be done without threatening privacy. It cannot.
https://t.co/qNTXasf9KF
I would like to point out to the state of #Texas that this is a direct violation of the first amendment.
You are banning people under 16 from a means of speech. You are effectively saying that people under 16 don't deserve basic human rights.
This is NOT free speech.
British police arrested a man after Facebook reported a picture he sent privately to his wife through Messenger. Police seized both their devices.
The man had downloaded an image of a Mexican actress from Google or Bing Images (he says he doesn’t remember which engine), unaware that it was AI generated. He sent it to his wife to ask if she’d like him to buy her similar clothes.
According to his account, police said the image matched a hash associated with a real Mexican actress.
If the image was illegal and could be identified through its hash, it shouldn’t have been available on Google or Bing Images. They should have remove it and report it to the police.
Anyone in the UK can face arrest, police investigation and seizure of their devices over something they download from the internet or say in a private conversation, even when they have no idea the content could be considered illegal.
Facebook Messenger is supposed to protect private conversations through end-to-end encryption. But if Meta can scan messages on people’s devices or inside the app before encryption or after decryption, that privacy protection becomes worthless against Meta’s monitoring.
The same privacy and personal safety problem applies to the ChatGPT integration for Apple Messages and Meta’s Muse spyware agent. Giving these companies access to private conversations allows them to monitor and analyse sensitive information about everyone involved, including people who never consented.
End-to-end encryption doesn’t protect people when they add third party services.
🚨Digital ID whack-a-mole games are back for 2027:
Starting with Texas social media ban SB 212. This year's version lowers the age from 18 to 16. It's supposed to "protect kids", but it's going to require every user to provide identity verification to have a social media account.
Doesn't put parents in the "driver's seat". In fact, parents have no say. Under 16 = NO social media. There is no parental consent exception.
This is government-as-parent.
Pay attention to the "transactional data" that is required for the verification process. This means credit bureau, bank, and data broker records. How many 16–17-year-olds have that?
This is another bill being sold as "child safety" that creates a digital ID and surveillance framework for every user.
Not to sound like a broken record, but how is forcing everyone (including children) to submit their personal information to tech companies and Mark Zuckerberg (who is funding KOSA) keeping children safe? Go ahead, I'll wait.
Also speech with extra steps is NOT free speech.