Sharing this Proton article with their 2026 internet predictions 📱
🔍 EU eyes permanent "voluntary" message scanning
🪪 Global age verification laws risk ID breaches
⚠️ VPN blocks expand in democracies as rogue AI agents loom
🔗 https://proton.me/blog/2026-internet-predictions
#TechNews #Privacy #VPN #AI #Surveillance #Encryption #Regulation #Data #Security #DigitalRights #Cybersecurity #UserRights #BigTech #InternetFreedom #AgeVerification #Proton #ProtonMail #EU #Europe #ChatControl #VPN #ID
UK launches major police reforms with expanded AI and live facial recognition 📹
AI analyzes CCTV footage to free up 6M officer hours yearly; facial rec vans rise to 50 🔍
Privacy concerns grow as surveillance scales without clear civil liberty protections ⚖️
#TechNews #Privacy #AI #FacialRecognition #Surveillance #Security #Data #Regulation #BigTech #Police #CivilLiberties #Ethics #DigitalRights #Cybersecurity #UserRights #UK #UnitedKingdom #CCTV
UK Lords vote to ban VPNs for under-18s to enforce online age checks 📵
Sees privacy tools as evasion of child safety rules under Online Safety Act; now heads to Commons for review ⚖️
Raises questions about balancing child protection with fundamental user rights to privacy and anonymity 🔍
#TechNews #Privacy #VPN #Security #Regulation #Data #BigTech #UserRights #DigitalRights #Censorship #Freedom #Policy #Safety #Cybersecurity #OnlineFreedom #UK #UnitedKingdom
French lawmakers passed a bill banning social media for under-15s 📵
Also extends mobile phone ban to high schools; follows Australia's under-16 limit 🇫🇷
Focuses on protecting youth mental health from cyberbullying and screen addiction, though critics call it digital paternalism ⚖️
🔗 https://www.theguardian.com/world/2026/jan/27/france-social-media-ban-under-15s
#TechNews #Privacy #SocialMedia #Kids #Regulation #MentalHealth #Data #BigTech #Youth #Europe #Policy #Safety #DigitalRights #ScreenTime #ParentalControls #France #AgeVerification #Australia
TikTok’s new US-based ownership is rolling out an updated privacy policy 📱
The app now collects more data — including users’ precise locations 🌎
Ownership change or not, data minimization remains the real test of accountability 🔍
🔗 https://www.wired.com/story/tiktok-new-privacy-policy/
#TechNews #Privacy #Data #Security #AI #BigTech #Surveillance #SocialMedia #Policy #Transparency #UserRights #Ethics #Consent #Regulation #OnlineSafety #TikTok #US #USA
Netflix’s $ bid to acquire Warner Bros. raises fresh privacy questions 🎥
Merging two massive data sets—viewing, search, and location—could deepen user profiling risks 🔍
Regulators must weigh not just competition, but consent 🧩
#TechNews #Privacy #Data #Streaming #BigTech #Antitrust #Regulation #AI #Surveillance #Security #Ethics #ConsumerRights #Policy #DataProtection #Transparency #Netflix #Stream
Google will pay $68M to settle claims its Assistant recorded users without consent 📱
The lawsuit says “false activations” captured private chats since 2016, data later used for ads 🧠
A reminder of the tension between convenience and consent 🔍
🔗 https://www.thecooldown.com/green-business/google-assistant-privacy-lawsuit-settlement/
#TechNews #Privacy #Data #AI #Surveillance #BigTech #Google #Voice #Consent #Security #Ethics #Antitrust #Regulation #AIethics #OnlineSafety
I learned the hard way that words can be weapons.
(No trauma dump, you're good.)
Language is powerful.
Or as I like to say:
Language is load-bearing.
Words have real somatic impact.
They change nervous system state.
And yet tech treats it as.. vibes.
(Words make the body go brrr.)
What happens when language is treated with the same rigor as code?
When nervous system cost is not an abstract idea but part of the equation?
Which communicational failure modes become myths of the past?
(Static types for human language when?)
Imagine people asking:
"Why do you care about language so much?"
And the answer being:
"Because it works."
systemic.engineering explores what happens
when language stops being vibes
and is treated as infrastructure.
Because that's what language is:
The transport layer between divergent realities.
(Be they human or agentic.)
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👉 https://systemic.engineering/welcome
#SystemicEngineering #SRE #SREforHumans #Language #LanguageAsInfrastructure #Communication #CommunicationProblems #FailureModes #SystemThinking #EpistemicAbuse #Leadership #Regulation
Every regulation creates a new priesthood.
They don't solve the problem. They become gatekeepers to the solution you could have implemented yourself.
Then they sell you software to comply with rules they lobbied for.
It's not corruption, but a business model.
Traumatic landscapes of plastic, pollution and exploitation
The coastline of Spain is known as the ‘Sea of Plastic’ ("Mar de Plástico”) It is the world’s largest plastic greenhouse complex with 350 square km of fruit and vegetables grown by immigrant labour for the horticultural industry. >>
https://www.behance.net/gallery/22272681/Mar-del-Plastico#
Could we do the same thing to the coast of NSW?
NSW Greens to move bill to let councils better regulate berry industry as it continues rapid expansion
“People move into these beautiful valleys for the lifestyle and the environment but then wake up one day and within months they are looking at an industrial-scale blueberry farm."
"Faehrmann’s bill will call for mandated buffers between intensive horticulture farms and homes and waterways, as well as strict controls on spraying, runoff and irrigation and greater monitoring of produce for pesticides."
"Blueberry farming is rapidly expanding beyond Coffs Harbour, where it began several decades ago, into the Nambucca Valley and the Kempsey area to the south, and west toward Grafton and Bellingen."
>>
https://www.theguardian.com/australia-news/2026/jan/31/australia-berry-industry-bill-nsw-greens
#rivers #water #extractivism #pesticides #MidNorthCoast #ChinasOrchard #horticulturalIndustry #regulation #runoff #pollution #plastic #PALM #blueberries #SeaOfPlastics #TraumaticLandscapes #NSWCoast #NSW #CoffsHarbour #Nambucca #Kempsey #Grafton #Bellingen #residents #habitability #NSWLogging
“It’s a strange thing goes on inside a bubble,” [note: #genAI is not ONLY a bubble; this isn’t a perfect analogy. But the extent to which it and the US government are mutually captured by a necessity of overvaluation may be very similar.] #enron #digitalGovernance #regulation #ethics #AIEthics
RE: https://mastodon.social/@randahl/115988450654591584
Data harvesting was invented for advertising, but we were warned from day 1 that it would be used for other, even more nefarious purposes, such as crime & fascism.
- but nobody listened, because... making advertising infinitely more intrusive & profitable was... too important...?
I mean, fuck, man, give me ONE reason why we didn't IMMEDIATELY regulate this shit, that isn't corrupt, stupid or both.
#SurveillanceCapitalism #privacy #data #tech #business #regulation
"FAA finalizes 25-hour cockpit voice recorder rule" by @Reuters - After many incidents where NTSB investigations wanted cockpit voice recorder data that had been overwritten with 2-hour loops, FAA is implementing their recommendation to go to 25-hour recording loops. https://www.reuters.com/business/aerospace-defense/faa-finalizes-25-hour-cockpit-voice-recorder-rule-2026-01-30/ #aviation #regulation #avgeek
Cette mesure devra avoir l'aval de Bruxelles pour être mise en œuvre ainsi que la coopération des réseaux sociaux. #europe #digital #market #regulation #web #social #business #services #online #privacy #identity #numérique #threats [ https://www.franceinfo.fr/replay-magazine/franceinfo/l-invite-politique/l-invite-politique-du-vendredi-30-janvier-2026_7774163.html ]
« Il y aura d'autres mesures bien plus interministérielles, qui concernent le domaine de la santé, l'éducation, l'égalité femmes-hommes… Bref, ce n'est qu'une première étape. » ( Anne Le Hénanff ) #france #future #political #education #santé
Doanh nghiệp F&B đang gặp khó khăn trong việc nhập nguyên liệu hợp pháp. Nhiều công ty vẫn dựa vào “mối quen” để nhập nhanh, nhưng với các quy định quản lý ngày càng chặt chẽ, cách thức này đang bộc lộ rủi ro và vi phạm pháp luật. Các doanh nghiệp cần chuyển sang quy trình nhập khẩu minh bạch, tuân thủ quy định để bảo vệ thương hiệu và duy trì hoạt động bền vững.
#F&B #DoanhNghiep #NguyenLieu #Import #Legal #Vietnam #Business #FoodIndustry #Regulation #SupplyChain
OMB Approves FCC Novel Space Activities Spectrum NPRM – Will probably be published in the Federal Register in the next week or two – https://tinyurl.com/v4fv26sb #Regulation #SpaceGeek #FCC
🇹🇼 行政院 (ey.gov.tw) ― The Executive Yuan proposed amendments to the Criminal Code that would toughen penalties for disseminating deepfakes and other types of defamation online. #taiwan #taipei #deepfakes #violence #online #digital #legislation #regulation #laws #reputation #web #defamation #citizens #threats [ https://www.taipeitimes.com/News/front/archives/2026/01/30/2003851459 ] #informatique
Failure to regulate security profession in N.W.T. is a public safety risk, say experts
Security guards in the N.W.T. are not regulated and there are no licensing or training requirements. Experts say that should change to protect the public and security workers alike.
#security #regulation #safety #NWT
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/north/security-unregulated-nwt-9.7065797?cmp=rss
