Didi Rankovic

1 week ago | reclaimthenet.org | Didi Rankovic

Another US state is trying to enact legislation that lawmakers sponsoring, and supporters among citizens, say is designed to eliminate illegal harms affecting young people on social media. But the way Colorado’s Protections for Users of Social Media (SB 25-086) proposes to go about this task has thus far failed to convince Governor Jared Polis that freedom, innovation, and privacy would also be protected.

1 week ago | reclaimthenet.org | Didi Rankovic

UK’s digital ID scheme, GOV.UK One Login, allegedly contains a host of serious vulnerabilities affecting security and data protection, that are “built in” and present in the system since its launch. These claims come from a whistleblower, a security expert who worked for the Government Digital Service (GDS, a part of the Department for Science, Innovation and Technology).

1 week ago | reclaimthenet.org | Didi Rankovic

The police in Ireland (Garda) are looking for ways to make it harder for civilians, in particular citizen journalists, to film officers at work in public places – which is currently allowed to anyone. But the argument in favor of changing the rules is that the police need to be given “protection,” in particular from potential “harassment” and “abuse” on social media.

1 week ago | reclaimthenet.org | Didi Rankovic

Meta has announced plans to make Europeans – specifically their data – work harder for Meta’s AI models. But the giant is presenting these plans as making its AI “work harder for Europeans.”Meta’s AI models will soon start to be trained with data from EU users over the age of 18, including their public posts, comments, and chat history – such as questions and queries – with Meta AI.

1 week ago | reclaimthenet.org | Didi Rankovic

When Canada’s authorities decided to crush political and social dissent by freezing bank accounts belonging to participants in the 2022 Freedom Convoy, many critics warned the practice would not be isolated to a single event, but would instead set a dangerous precedent. The case of Meghan Murphy, a women’s rights advocate who decided to run in the upcoming federal election on the People’s Party of Canada (PPC) ticket, appears to give credence to those fears.