After India's legal orders this week, Twitter blocked the tweets of 122 users, including reporters and politicians, from Indian users; it used to push back more
https://restofworld.org/... Lauren Weinstein / @lauren@mastodon.laurenweinstein.org : Instead of pushing back as #Twitter used to do, Elon now bends over for India's requests to block accounts. - http...
Investigation and documents: over 600 US police entities have access, without oversight, to a database on 150M+ money transfers in the US and over 20 countries
Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @neerajka , @mqsullivan , @paulwsj , and @dnvolz Tweets: Neeraj K. Agrawal / @neerajka : Law enforcement has warrantless access to a database of over 150 million transac...
Abortion rights activists and nonprofits are looking at crypto to speed fundraising, but complexity and traceability of blockchain transactions hamper efforts
Activists and nonprofits are considering digital currencies as a way to raise funds. But can they really do anything other payment methods can't? Tweets: @rjcc , @bradmichelson , @aaronwall , and @ne...
App Annie: Australian Broadcasting Corporation's news app was briefly the most downloaded app on the AU App Store after Facebook's news ban and is now second
to be clear, this graph shows the drop in traffic from Facebook to Australian news publishers. It's obvious, yes, but that makes it no less dramatic. The article goes on explain the situation in detai...
As police requests for Google users' location history grow, “geofence warrants” are facing increasing pushback and legal scrutiny, with challenges in CA and VA
David Uberti / Wall Street Journal : Tweets: @hypervisible and @neerajka Tweets: Doomscrolling Eternal / @hypervisible : Geofence warrant requests “grew 1,500% from 2017 to 2018, and an additional 50...
Libra scales back ambitions of launching a global currency and will now focus on creating a traditional payment network with coins tied to local currencies
The big news of the week is Libra's announcement. Blockfolio / The Market Refresh : Under Pressure, Libra Ditches The Basket Wanguba Muriuki / coinspeaker.com : Libra Association Abandons Global Curre...