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Age verification, boon or bane? 🧐
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How Linux and BSD Distros Are Responding to the New Age Verification Laws
Age verification laws could change how operating systems work. See how major Linux and BSD distributions are reacting to the new regulations.Abhishek Prakash (It's FOSS)
How Japan Protects Children Online — Without Mass ID Checks
🚨 Wide ranging powers to restrict Internet access in the UK have been voted through 🚨
Ministers will be able to impose digital ID checks, curfews and VPN restrictions without Parliamentary scrutiny.
This can be used on websites, social media, apps and games with no need to show there's any harm to children.
Find out more ⬇️
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#onlinesafety #digitalid #id #privacy #ageverification #freedomofexpression #ukpolitics #ukpol
MPs give ministers powers to restrict entire Internet
MPs have rejected a Lords amendment to the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill that would allow a social media ban for under 16s.Open Rights Group
“When you create a law, you have to think about what a future government could do with those powers."
Ministers would have unilateral powers to lock what they see as 'harmful' behind digital ID checks.
This could end up being used on LGBTQ+ and reproductive health content.
🗣️ ORG's James Baker.
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#onlinesafety #digitalid #privacy #freedomofexpression #ageverification #ukpolitics #ukpol
UK eyes sweeping powers to regulate tech
The U.K. government has laid two amendments that would let it sidestep parliamentary debate so it can update online safety laws.Mizy Clifton (POLITICO)
Age verification is spreading like the plague. When does it stop? 🤧
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Age Verification Laws Are Multiplying Like a Virus, and Your Linux Computer Might be Next
What started as age gates on adult websites has quietly crept into app stores and operating systems.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS)
🚨 ID checks to get online could become the new norm 🚨
A new amendment would give the UK government sweeping powers to block access to lawful information and communications.
That's unless we submit our identification to a bounty of providers.
Tell your MP to stop this broad and repressive law ⬇️
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#privacy #freedomofexpression #ageverification #digitalID #onlinesafety #ukpolitics #ukpol
No ID Checks for Web Access
Take action! What’s the problem? The Government has proposed amendments to the Children Wellbeing and Schools Bill, which would give Ministers the power to restrict access to "internet services".Open Rights Group
Age verification, what's your take on it?
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Age Verification: Protection Tool or Surveillance in Disguise?
As more governments push age checks into our apps and operating systems, the dystopian future doesn't feel so far off anymore.Sourav Rudra (It's FOSS)
Oh look: #discord outsourced their age verification to some vendor. You know, the #ageverification that countries like the UK want to make mandatory for basically every online service. And the vendor had a data breach exposing photos of government IDs for 70,000 people.
Do you feel safer? How many children did we protect by exposing the IDs of these 70,000 (presumably) adults? Thanks for taking one for the team, you 70,000 canaries in the #privacy coal mine.
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Update on a Security Incident Involving Third-Party Customer Service | Discord
At Discord, protecting the privacy and security of our users is a top priority. That’s why it’s important to us that we’re transparent with them about events that impact their personal information.discord.com