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🇪🇺 It could soon become easier for companies to train their #AI on your data – at least if the #EU Commission's #DigitalOmnibus proposal passes. 🤖
👤 featuring data protection lawyer and AI specialist Kleanthi Sardeli
🇪🇺 It could soon become easier for companies to train their #AI on your data – at least if the #EU Commission's #DigitalOmnibus proposal passes. 🤖
👤 featuring data protection lawyer and AI specialist Kleanthi Sardeli
The Age Verification Trap, Verifying age undermines everyone's data protection
https://spectrum.ieee.org/age-verification
#HackerNews #AgeVerification #DataProtection #PrivacyOnline #DigitalRights #Cybersecurity
Brazil’s data protection authority (ANPD) became autonomous in 2022 and was further strengthened in 2025 as a full regulatory agency.
This signals growing enforcement maturity under LGPD, clearer regulatory authority, and long-term governance stability.
For companies operating in Brazil, privacy compliance is shifting from emerging requirement to strategic expectation.
Tor Browser 16.0a3 alpha now available, with Firefox security updates, Tor 0.4.9.5, NoScript 13.5.12 🛡️
Updates disable online suggestions, adjust adult content flags vs fingerprinting, extend WASM blocking to workers, add UTC timestamps to logs 🔧
Alpha for testing only - stable advised for at-risk users ⚠️
🔗 https://blog.torproject.org/new-alpha-release-tor-browser-160a3/
#TechNews #Privacy #Security #Cybersecurity #OpenSource #Browser #Anonymity #DataProtection #FOSS #Linux #Infosec #Encryption #Tor #Browser #Mozilla
Tor Browser 16.0a3 alpha now available, with Firefox security updates, Tor 0.4.9.5, NoScript 13.5.12 🛡️
Updates disable online suggestions, adjust adult content flags vs fingerprinting, extend WASM blocking to workers, add UTC timestamps to logs 🔧
Alpha for testing only - stable advised for at-risk users ⚠️
🔗 https://blog.torproject.org/new-alpha-release-tor-browser-160a3/
#TechNews #Privacy #Security #Cybersecurity #OpenSource #Browser #Anonymity #DataProtection #FOSS #Linux #Infosec #Encryption #Tor #Browser #Mozilla
Brazil’s data protection authority (ANPD) became autonomous in 2022 and was further strengthened in 2025 as a full regulatory agency.
This signals growing enforcement maturity under LGPD, clearer regulatory authority, and long-term governance stability.
For companies operating in Brazil, privacy compliance is shifting from emerging requirement to strategic expectation.
The UK government is playing whack-a-mole with online safety.
Plans to further age-gate the Internet dodges the real issue – the power of Big Tech.
Failing to regulate AI and the age verification industry puts the rights of users in peril.
Read our response ⬇️
#ageverification #privacy #dataprotection #bigtech #onlinesafetyact #ukpolitics #ukpol #socialmedia
An amendment to the Children Wellbeing and Schools Bill would give UK Ministers the power to enact a social media ban on under-16s.
This would bypass Parliament and any democratic oversight on a measure that could only work by having everyone prove their age.
Our rights cannot be an afterthought.
#ageverification #privacy #dataprotection #ukpolitics #ukpol #socialmedia
EU Parliament blocks AI features over cyber, privacy fears https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-parliament-blocks-ai-features-over-cyber-privacy-fears/?utm_source=RSS_Feed&utm_medium=RSS&utm_campaign=RSS_Syndication #CybersecurityandDataProtection #CybersecurityandDataProtection #ArtificialIntelligence #Dataprotection #Cybersecurity #Intelligence #Parliament #Technology #Dataflows #Espionage #Security #Services #Bigdata #Privacy #Cloud #Data
We have no choice, no voice over a privacy intrusive system that's being embedded into everyday Internet use.
It's the platforms that decide on the age verificationprovider.
Users are unaware of the investors behind these companies or the links to wider surveillance, online advertising and intelligence networks.
#ageverification #privacy #dataprotection #bigtech #onlinesafetyact #ukpolitics #ukpol #socialmedia
ORG calls on the UK government, ICO and Ofcom to establish compulsory privacy and security standards for age verification providers.
This is critical to protect users’ sensitive data as this unregulated industry grows more powerful with each attempt to treat the symptom, not the cause of online harms.
#ageverification #privacy #dataprotection #ukpolitics #ukpol #socialmedia
The UK government risks creating a new layer of digital infrastructure that concentrates power over identity, biometrics and access to public life in the hands of private companies.
Age gating VPNs, AI Chat bots, or features like infinitive scrolling would expand the reach of age verification.
#ageverification #privacy #dataprotection #bigtech #onlinesafetyact #ukpolitics #ukpol #vpn #socialmedia
An amendment to the Children Wellbeing and Schools Bill would give UK Ministers the power to enact a social media ban on under-16s.
This would bypass Parliament and any democratic oversight on a measure that could only work by having everyone prove their age.
Our rights cannot be an afterthought.
#ageverification #privacy #dataprotection #ukpolitics #ukpol #socialmedia
ORG calls on the UK government, ICO and Ofcom to establish compulsory privacy and security standards for age verification providers.
This is critical to protect users’ sensitive data as this unregulated industry grows more powerful with each attempt to treat the symptom, not the cause of online harms.
#ageverification #privacy #dataprotection #ukpolitics #ukpol #socialmedia
We have no choice, no voice over a privacy intrusive system that's being embedded into everyday Internet use.
It's the platforms that decide on the age verificationprovider.
Users are unaware of the investors behind these companies or the links to wider surveillance, online advertising and intelligence networks.
#ageverification #privacy #dataprotection #bigtech #onlinesafetyact #ukpolitics #ukpol #socialmedia
An amendment to the Children Wellbeing and Schools Bill would give UK Ministers the power to enact a social media ban on under-16s.
This would bypass Parliament and any democratic oversight on a measure that could only work by having everyone prove their age.
Our rights cannot be an afterthought.
#ageverification #privacy #dataprotection #ukpolitics #ukpol #socialmedia
The UK government is playing whack-a-mole with online safety.
Plans to further age-gate the Internet dodges the real issue – the power of Big Tech.
Failing to regulate AI and the age verification industry puts the rights of users in peril.
Read our response ⬇️
#ageverification #privacy #dataprotection #bigtech #onlinesafetyact #ukpolitics #ukpol #socialmedia
The UK government risks creating a new layer of digital infrastructure that concentrates power over identity, biometrics and access to public life in the hands of private companies.
Age gating VPNs, AI Chat bots, or features like infinitive scrolling would expand the reach of age verification.
#ageverification #privacy #dataprotection #bigtech #onlinesafetyact #ukpolitics #ukpol #vpn #socialmedia
