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“There’s a transnational repression happening on our community,” said Simon Cheng, founder of the group Hongkongers in Britain.

TeleSign generates a “reputation score” and sells its services to various clients like TikTok, Microsoft or Salesforce. TeleSign secretly received the mobile phone data from BICS, a Belgian company that provides interconnection services for many mobile phone companies, the NGO says.

Chinese-made surveillance cameras are in British offices, high streets and even government buildings - and Panorama has investigated security flaws involving the two top brands. How easy is it to hack them and what does it mean for our security?

Here is the policy brief: http://web.archive.org/web/20230623194054/https://www.un.org/sites/un2.un.org/files/our-common-agenda-policy-brief-gobal-digi-compact-en.pdf

Fatima al-Shawarbi, who is from Al-Ahsa province and believed to be under 30, reported to have used her anonymous Twitter account to highlight the plight of the Howeitat – a tribe whose members have been forcibly displaced for the Neom megaproject – women’s rights, and calling for a constitutional monarchy.

Tech companies should oppose the Hong Kong government’s application for an injunction to ban broadcasting and distribution of the 2019 protest song, “Glory to Hong Kong,” Human Rights Watch says. The sought-for injunction reflects the Chinese government’s expanding efforts to control information not just within its...

Fediverse can only win by keeping its ground, by speaking about freedom, morals, ethics, values. By starting open, non-commercial and non-spied discussions. By acknowledging that the goal is not to win. Not to embrace. The goal is to stay a tool. A tool dedicated to offer a place of freedom for connected human beings. Something...

A majority of 94.21 percent of voters in Geneva in Switzerland have voted for protecting the individual against abusive data processing and for the right to an offline life. The Right to Digital Integrity is now being incorporated into the constitution of the canton of Geneva, Switzerland....

A recent ruling by Russia’s Constitutional Court supporting the legality of a law on “discrediting the army” is in fact a constitutional coup d'etat. The judges have proclaimed that the supreme value of the Constitution is no longer the individual, and his or her rights and freedoms, but the state. The approval of the...

"Terrifying experience travelling alone", she tweets.

Most intrusive apps include Google’s Socratic, Duolingo, AI ARTA, Chat AI, DaVinci and K Health, according to an investigation by Home Security Heroes. 64% of investigated AI-powered apps track users’ personal data for their own marketing benefits....

Rather than focusing on the advancement of astronautics, which is facing difficulties, organizations like Roscosmos are currently providing support to the motorcycle group known as the Night Wolves, who are engaged in the war in Ukraine. The Kremlin found the nationalist macho values of the Wolves, combined with their...

eSafety Commissioner Julie Inman Grant said Twitter’s terms of use and policies currently prohibit hateful conduct on the platform, but rising complaints to eSafety and reports of this content remaining publicly visible on the platform, show that Twitter is not likely to be enforcing its own rules. “We are seeing a worrying...

Young Russians shared their strategies for evading combat: one individual became a defendant in a criminal case, another sought refuge in a psychiatric clinic, and a third, originally from the Luhansk region and having fled the war in Donbass to Russia in 2014, has successfully resisted being dispatched from his unit for several...

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Judge James M. Moody Jr. of Federal District Court in Little Rock said the law both discriminated against transgender people and violated the constitutional rights of doctors. He also said that the state of Arkansas had failed to substantially prove a number of its claims, including that the care was experimental or carelessly...