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3 weeks ago | netzpolitik.org | Chris Köver

Watching others masturbate online for money? This could soon be banned in Sweden. The conservative-right government of Prime Minister Ulf Kristersson has introduced a bill to parliament that would make it a criminal offense to pay for sexual services “performed at a distance, without contact.” Parliament is currently debating the bill and is set to vote next week.

1 month ago | netzpolitik.org | Ingo Dachwitz

Together with other activists from around the world, Nighat Dad wants to establish a “Global Majority House” in Brussels to make underepesented voices heard in EU tech regulation. Global Majority is a collective term for people of African, Asian, Indigenous, Latin American or mixed backgrounds, who make up about 85 percent of the world’s population. According to the Oxford Dictionary, it includes all people who do not consider themselves or are not considered to be white.

Feb 28, 2025 | netzpolitik.org | Chris Köver

For months, the passport data of thousands of people was accessible on the internet. Lists containing names, dates of birth, and passport numbers were freely available for download to anyone who visited the website of the Belgian data marketplace „Databroker“. netzpolitik.org uncovered the data leak last July. The Belgian data protection authority is responsible for the case, but declined to comment publicly. The agency is not allowed to talk about ongoing or potential investigations.

Feb 14, 2025 | netzpolitik.org | Markus Reuter

Der Berliner Geschichtswissenschaftler Henrik Schönemann hat Inhalte auf neuen US-Regierungsseiten unter den Domains dei.gov und waste.gov entdeckt, die offenbar noch nicht an die Öffentlichkeit gelangen sollten. Bereits am 5. Februar hatte die Nachrichtenagentur Reuters über die Registrierung der beiden Domains durch das Weiße Haus berichtet.

Jan 15, 2025 | netzpolitik.org | Ingo Dachwitz

This is the English summary of a longer German-language article. The publication is part of the „Databroker Files“ series. A new data set obtained from a US data broker reveals for the first time about 40,000 apps from which users‘ data is being traded. The data set was obtained by a journalist from netzpolitik.org as a free preview sample for a paid subscription. It is dated to a single day in the summer of 2024.