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Starting July 1, 2025, Indian Railways plans to make Aadhaar mandatory for Tatkal ticket bookings. This alarming move threatens fundamental rights, privacy, and digital inclusion — all under the guise of preventing ticket fraud.
FSMK strongly condemns this invasive and disproportionate step.
Access to public transport should NEVER come at the cost of your biometric data.
Oh, look! Another privacy invasion disguised as a feature! 
Your browser's DRM now acts like your clingy ex, watching your every move. 
Nothing says "innovation" quite like a PDF so unreadable it makes hieroglyphics look like a children's book. 
https://hal.science/hal-04179324v1/document #privacyinvasion #browserDRM #digitalrights #innovation #techhumor #HackerNews #ngated
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To kluczowe, by #NGO działające dla społeczeństwa także zabierały głos w dyskusjach na takim szczeblu. Obok polityków i biznesowych lobbystów.
I dlatego tam jesteśmy.
Podsumujemy polską prezydencję i kwestie #digitalsovereignty; #digitalresilience #digitalrights
Kto będzie? M.in. Fundacja Panoptykon, Mozilla Foundation @mozilla Open Future Foundation, Open Markets Institute, @Future of Technology Institute (FoTI), @openfuture
Agenda wydarzenia: https://polish-presidency.consilium.europa.eu/pl/wydarzenia/digital-summit/
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Digital SummitDigital SummitPolska prezydencja w Radzie Unii Europejskiej
re:publica 25: Philip Schroepel - Mastodon: Offene Infrastrukturen für alle
In 1994, Amsterdam pioneered the Digital City, a revolutionary online community. @marleenstikker, a co-founder, shares insights on its creation and the urgent need to reclaim the internet from corporate control. From modems to digital sovereignty, the fight continues. #DigitalRights #TechHistory https://waag.org/nl/article/marleen-stikker-over-25-jaar-digitale-stad-we-moeten-het-internet-heroveren/
Waag FuturelabWaag | Marleen Stikker over 25 jaar Digitale Stad: 'We moeten het internet heroveren'In 1994 was de Digitale Stad een revolutionaire website. Oprichter Marleen Stikker blikt 25 jaar later terug. "Het internet was een publieke vrijplaats." Een interview in NRC.
AI scrapes your life. Trains on it. Sells it back to you.
AI is feeding on journalism, choking the public square, and rewriting democracy in code.
Digital rights groups are urging the FTC to investigate Character.AI and Meta for allegedly enabling unlicensed medical practice through AI therapy chatbots. #AI #DigitalRights #FTC #CharacterAI #Meta #HealthTech #AIGovernance #AIRegulation #MentalHealth #TechPolicy
#AITherapy #Bots Are Conducting 'Illegal Behavior,' #DigitalRights Organizations Say
Almost two dozen digital #rights & consumer protection organizations sent a complaint to the #FTC on Thursday urging regulators to investigate Character.AI & Meta’s “unlicensed practice of #medicine facilitated by their product,” through therapy-themed bots that claim to have credentials & confidentiality “with inadequate controls & disclosures.”
#privacy #therapy #meta #characterai
https://www.404media.co/ai-therapy-bots-meta-character-ai-ftc-complaint/
404 Media · AI Therapy Bots Are Conducting 'Illegal Behavior,' Digital Rights Organizations SayExclusive: An FTC complaint led by the Consumer Federation of America outlines how therapy bots on Meta and Character.AI have claimed to be qualified, licensed therapists to users, and why that may be breaking the law.
Stop using Big Tech to organize your protests! They're part of the authoritarian surveillance and oppression as well.
Replace Meetup/Facebook Groups with Mobilizon:
https://mobilizon.org
Replace Google Docs with CryptPad:
https://cryptpad.fr
Replace Google Map with Organic Maps:
https://organicmaps.app
Replace YouTube with PeerTube:
https://joinpeertube.org
Replace Gmail and Google Calendar with Proton or Tuta:
https://proton.me
https://tuta.com
Create a simple html website with no tracking and no cookies, and post links to it everywhere, including paper posters and stickers.
We can organize without Big Tech. We have done it for centuries before! 
mobilizon.orgMobilizon
"Almost two dozen digital rights and consumer protection organizations sent a complaint to the Federal Trade Commission on Thursday urging regulators to investigate Character.AI and Meta’s “unlicensed practice of medicine facilitated by their product,” through therapy-themed bots that claim to have credentials and confidentiality “with inadequate controls and disclosures.”
The complaint and request for investigation is led by the Consumer Federation of America (CFA), a non-profit consumer rights organization. Co-signatories include the AI Now Institute, Tech Justice Law Project, the Center for Digital Democracy, the American Association of People with Disabilities, Common Sense, and 15 other consumer rights and privacy organizations.
"These companies have made a habit out of releasing products with inadequate safeguards that blindly maximizes engagement without care for the health or well-being of users for far too long,” Ben Winters, CFA Director of AI and Privacy said in a press release on Thursday. “Enforcement agencies at all levels must make it clear that companies facilitating and promoting illegal behavior need to be held accountable. These characters have already caused both physical and emotional damage that could have been avoided, and they still haven’t acted to address it.” "
https://www.404media.co/ai-therapy-bots-meta-character-ai-ftc-complaint/
404 Media · AI Therapy Bots Are Conducting 'Illegal Behavior,' Digital Rights Organizations SayExclusive: An FTC complaint led by the Consumer Federation of America outlines how therapy bots on Meta and Character.AI have claimed to be qualified, licensed therapists to users, and why that may be breaking the law.
They want your data. What they won't understand is the cost of stealing your soul.
Navigating privacy and transparency in the digital age
#Tech #Politics #India #DPDPAct #RightToPrivacy #RTIAct #DigitalRights #DataProtection #IndiaLaw #Transparency #PrivacyVsTransparency #ConstitutionalRights #DigitalGovernance
https://the-14.com/navigating-privacy-and-transparency-in-the-digital-age/
The-14 Pictures · Navigating privacy and transparency in the digital age | The-14India must uphold both privacy and transparency as it implements the DPDP Act—ensuring data protection without undermining citizens’ right to information.
"French Digital Minister Clara #Chappaz’s office told POLITICO it is considering designating websites such as @bsky.app @Mastodon and #Reddit as #porn platforms, obliging them to implement stringent #ageverification requirements under new French rules that came into effect Saturday."
Question is: who is running this platform called #Mastodon ??? 
Using Face ID? Just know: facial recognition tech stores a map of your face—sometimes locally, sometimes in the cloud.
It’s convenient, but:
• Can be forced (think arrests or border stops)
• Isn’t foolproof—twins, photos, deepfakes?
• Normalizes biometric surveillance
Use a strong passcode. Disable Face ID in sensitive moments. Know your rights.
A very thoughtful analysis about protecting #minors online written by @eff's @sveawindwehr :
Electronic Frontier Foundation · Keeping People Safe Online – Fundamental Rights Protective Alternatives to Age ChecksThis is the final part of a three-part series about age verification in the European Union. In part one, we give an overview of the political debate around age verification and explore the age verification proposal introduced by the European Commission, based on digital identities. Part two takes a...
"Isabela Fernandes believes free, open-source software has helped build the internet, and will be key to improving it for all. As executive director of the Tor Project – the nonprofit behind the decentralized, onion-routing network providing crucial online anonymity to activists and dissidents around the world – she has fought tirelessly for everyone to have private access to an uncensored internet, and Tor has become one of the world's strongest tools for privacy and freedom online.
Fernandes joins EFF’s Cindy Cohn and Jason Kelley to discuss the importance of not just accepting technology as it’s given to us, but collaboratively breaking it, tinkering with it, and rebuilding it together until it becomes the technology that we really need to make our world a better place.
In this episode you’ll learn about:
- How the Tor network protects the anonymity of internet users around the world, and why that’s so important
- Why online privacy is NOT only for “people who have something to hide”
- The importance of making more websites friendly and accessible to Tor and similar systems
- How Tor can actually benefit law enforcement
- How free, open-source software can power economic booms"
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/podcast-episode-why-three-tors-magic-number
Electronic Frontier Foundation · Podcast Episode: Why Three is Tor's Magic NumberMany in Silicon Valley, and in U.S. business at large, seem to believe innovation springs only from competition, a race to build the next big thing first, cheaper, better, best. But what if collaboration and community breeds innovation just as well as adversarial competition? (You can also find...
YouTube Loosens Rules on Hate Speech, Misinformation
#YouTube #ContentModeration #TechPolicy #OnlineSafety #FreeSpeech #HateSpeech #Misinformation #BigTech #DigitalRights #BrandSafety #Disinformation
https://winbuzzer.com/2025/06/09/youtube-loosens-rules-on-hate-speech-misinformation-xcxwbn/
