As Israel enacts controversial judicial reforms, many tech companies are protesting or distancing themselves from the country, moving money and HQs overseas
Impeachment now front and center for House GOP Twitter: @glichfield : “Almost 70 percent of Israeli startups are taking measures to distance themselves from their home country, withdrawing cash or mov...
How the vague and varied US legal definitions of “cybercrime” causes issues, as the UN negotiates an international cybersecurity treaty with similar broad terms
Wired : Tweets: @article19org Tweets: @article19org : “The truth is that the issues are so complex, they are so technical, and there's very little time to negotiate all this,” says Paulina Gutiérrez,...
The Brookings Institution: from 2008 to 2021, Chinese companies accounted for 201 facial recognition tech export deals, followed by US companies with 128 deals
Will Knight / Wired : Tweets: @wired and @willknight Tweets: @wired : According to a study by academics at Harvard and MIT, China is the world leader in exporting face recognition. Experts fear what ...
WhatsApp launches proxy support globally, letting users with blocked or disrupted connections use the app via servers set up by volunteers and organizations
If you are unable to connect directly to WhatsApp, a proxy can be used … The Hacker News : WhatsApp Introduces Proxy Support to Help Users Bypass Internet Censorship Jon Porter / The Verge : WhatsApp ...
Advocates for the blind say DMCA exemptions to break ebook DRM for accessibility should be permanent, rather than having to be renewed every three years
regardless of what type of device it is. Read the Copyright Office's new 1201 ruling here: https://www.copyright.gov/... @internetarchive : TODAY: @librarycongress alters the #DMCA again permitting th...
Advocates for the blind say DMCA exemptions to break ebook DRM for accessibility should be permanent, rather than having to be renewed every three years
Advocates will once again be granted a DMCA exception to make accessible versions of texts. They argue that it's far past time to make it permanent. Source: U.S. Copyright Office and U.S. Copyright O...
Biden EO will encourage the FCC to bring back net neutrality and enforce clearer pricing labels for ISPs, asks FTC to draft right-to-repair rules, more
but it can't until he picks a third Democrat Pia Singh / CNBC : IAC CEO says Apple is ‘worse’ than Google and will be next target in U.S. antitrust crackdown Tyler Lee / Ubergizmo : President Joe Bide...