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A controversial European Union legislative proposal to scan citizens’ private messages in a bid to detect child sexual abuse material (CSAM) poses a risk to the…
EU watchdog questions privacy over CSAM scan proposal that breaks lawmakers’ encryption
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The European Commission has again been called on to more fully disclose its dealings with private technology companies and other stakeholders, in relation to a controversial…
Lawmakers vote to reauthorize US Espionage Act, which critics say expands government surveillance
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Lawmakers passed legislation early Saturday reauthorizing and expanding a controversial U.S. surveillance law shortly after the powers expired at midnight, shrugging off opposition from privacy advocates…
EU lawmakers are under pressure to fully disclose their dealings with child safety technology maker Thorn
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More trouble for European Union lawmakers in a controversial area of technology policymaking – namely the bloc’s proposed legislation to apply monitoring technologies such as client-side…
US Lawmakers Ask Justice Department to Investigate Apple for Blocking Beeper’s iMessage App
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Apple’s move to ditch Beeper, the app that brought iMessage to Android users, already caught the attention of US Senator Elizabeth Warren, who called out the…
Back in mid-September, a pair of Massachusetts lawmakers introduced a bill “to ensure the responsible use of advanced robotic technologies.” What this means in the simplest…
About two years of talking about gig workers’ rights later and European Union lawmakers have finally reached an agreement on the final form of the Platform…
After marathon “final” talks that lasted almost three days, European Union lawmakers tonight reached a political agreement on a risk-based framework for the regulation of artificial…