Sony says "reasonable consumers" know they don’t own the digital PlayStation games they buy.
It argues that it's "not plausible" to suggest that when they buy a digital game they actually believe they're "obtaining ownership" of it.
https://t.co/8mCoRnDp6v
Thomas Massie talks about his soon to be released legislation to try to stop the use of Flock cameras and mass surveillance technologies, by removing ALL Federal funding for any municipality that uses Flock cameras.
He also mentions FISA program abuses prove the government cannot be trusted with this technology.
‘DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE’: How Cops Are Trying to Hide Their Use of Flock
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When cops use Flock to arrest someone in Wapello County, Iowa, they don’t want them to know. A usage policy for the automated license plate reader cameras in the county tells police, in no uncertain terms, to keep them a secret: “DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE TO THE OCCUPANTS OF THE VEHICLE,” the policy document reads. “DO NOT MENTION ALPR USAGE IN YOUR REPORT OR COMPLAINT UNLESS ABSOLUTELY NECESSARY.”
https://t.co/J31MCnMzrC
Louisiana Governor Jeff Landry personally signed a mutual nondisclosure agreement dated April 23, 2024, with Laidley LLC, a Meta Platforms subsidiary, covering negotiations for the Hyperion AI data center campus in Richland Parish.
The Digital Age Assurance Act requires "age assurance" (NOT age verification) at the OS level (which they already do) and mandates that the age signal be passed on to apps, websites, etc.
The bill specifically says it does not require age verification. It has some nice sounding data privacy clauses. And it discourages over collection of data.
This is exactly the move that Aylo/Pornhub has been advocating for. Websites and developers like this because it shift liability to the OS level.
The bill also requires kids under 17 to be linked to a parent account, but the bill is silent about how that relationship is to be established, leaving it up to the OS companies to determine...or worse, the FTC.
The potential for mission creep with this policy is almost guaranteed. "We weren't able to sufficiently protect kids with age assurance, so now we will need to move to age verification."
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please share. anyone who lives in Texas. Don't vote for Ken Paxton. I beg you. He's only gonna make this issue worse. he wants age verification for the internet. He does not care for you 1A right
Bull.
Parental controls exist for the very thing you are too stupid to look into.
KIDS act is a surveillance bill masquerading as a way of keeping kids safe, just like the OSA. The only differences are the name and the country it's in.
The House floor vote didn't quite go our way, but the fight's not over yet.
Start contacting your Senators and tell them to oppose the KIDS Act, and if that doesn't work, this package can still be stopped in court like what happened with the CDA of 1996 and COPA.
The “conservative” group planning this protest (Humans First) forgot to censor their website’s privacy policy, which shows they’re using The Action Network, which is basically ActBlue for nonprofits.
Don’t fall for the psyop, folks.
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OS age verification law: "You no longer own your computer".
It violates the First, Fourth, and Fifth Amendments.
No OS has to comply - "any law repugnant to the Constitution is null and void". Developers who do deserve class-action lawsuits.
Ai-generated artwork officially is ineligible for copyright protection as the US Supreme Court declined to review a appeal case.
The court rules that artwork needs to have a human creator in order to be eligible.
(Source: https://t.co/WnYEKs7IcB)