#UK Official Promises Statements 'Around VPNs' and Further Teen Restrictions on Chatbots and #SocialMedia

https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/06/21/2052213/uk-official-promises-statements-around-vpns-and-further-teen-restrictions-on-chatbots-and-social-media

#VPN #SocialmediaBan #AgeVerification #privacy #politics #LLM #AI

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"Conservatives are dying at higher rates than liberals. A new study points to mistrust in medicine. The health divide emerged over the last decade and has widened since 2020, according to research that links ideology to outcomes from heart disease, cancer, stroke, and other internal causes":
https://www.fastcompany.com/91561329/widening-health-gap-between-liberals-and-conservatives
#extremism #healthcare #politics copy: @renewedresistance

As the data party surrounding the tenth anniversary of the Brexit vote continues, the Guardian has some interesting figures suggesting Leave voting areas have both seen:

a relative economic decline, and;

a rise in the proportion of non-UK workers.

No wonder they don't feel that Brexit is working for them; not that it would ever have had, of course

#Brexit #workers #politics

https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2026/jun/20/leave-voting-areas-foreign-workers-decade-since-brexit-referendum

The #UK’s New Under-16 #SocialMediaBan Will Cause More Harm Than It Prevents

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/uks-new-under-16-social-media-ban-will-cause-more-harm-it-prevents

#SocialMedia #AgeVerification #privacy #cyberscurity #politics

#EFF Joins 60+ Groups Urging the #UK to Halt Face Estimation at the Border

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/joins-60-groups-urging-uk-halt-face-estimation-border

#immigration #politics #privacy #FRT #FacialRecognition #biometrics #AgeVerification

UK’s Failed Age Verification Law is Becoming A Political Scandal

The UK's failed age verification law is becoming the latest sign of political failure with the UK prime minister.

https://www.freezenet.ca/uks-failed-age-verification-law-is-becoming-a-political-scandal/

#Censorship #News #AgeVerification #KierStarmer #politics #UK #VPN

#Canada Is Forging Ahead with Its Dangerous #Surveillance Bill

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/06/canada-forging-ahead-its-dangerous-surveillance-bill

#C22 #privacy #surveillance #cybersecurity #politics

“Digital Colonialism”: U.S. Demands to Access Africans’ Data Raise Privacy, Sovereignty Concerns

https://www.propublica.org/article/trump-state-department-africa-uganda-aid-medical-data-privacy

#politics #privacy #Africa

Today's owner class would 100% reinstate slavery if they could, and the neoliberals and fascists currently occupying our government buildings would help them do it.

Happy #Juneteenth.

#politics #USPol #CanPol

While Heathrow claims adding a third runway would add 0.5% to GDP annually, the Govt.'s own calculation it would likely be a tenth of that (at 0.05%).

As both figures are within the normal margin of error for estimates of GDP, we can safely say that the authorities at Heathrow are taking a punt on any likely contribution....

More likely is that it will actually just allow more transfers with little economic benefit to anyone other than the airport & airlines.

#Heathrow #politics
h/t FT

Was Hobbes Right in Leviathan? Only partially.

https://brywillis634737.substack.com/p/hobbes-was-right?r=pvxh5

#philosophy #blog #history #reading #substack #monarchy #democracy #history #books #politics #governance #empire #nature #foundation #anarchy #Leviathan #Hobbes #violence

Follow the money!

Patrick Glynn is the developer behind Oireachtas Explorer, a website an app helping you to keep Irish politicians accountable. The platform tracks historical records of every active politician, from voting records to lobbying receipts

https://oireachtas-explorer.ie/

#mastodaoine #corruption #IrishPol #politics #politicians #BrownEnvelope

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screen grab of the home page: Ireland's Paliamnet, OPEN TO ALL, green background

The #UK Will Scan #Asylum-Seekers’ Faces for Age Checks—Despite Knowing the Tech Is Flawed

https://www.wired.com/story/facial-age-estimate-uk-asylum-seekers/

#FRT #FacialRecognition #privacy #biometrics #politics #immigration #AgeVerification

#ICE Appears to Be Buying Immigrants’ #Tax Identifiers from a #DataBroker

https://www.404media.co/ice-appears-to-be-buying-immigrants-tax-identifiers-from-a-data-broker/

#surveillance #privacy #politics #immigration

A quotation from Andrew Oliver

Politics is the most hazardous of all professions. There is not another in which a man can hope to do so much good to his fellow creatures; neither is there any in which by a mere loss of nerve he may do such widespread harm. Nor is there another in which he may so easily lose his own soul; nor is there another in which a positive and strict veracity is so difficult. But danger is the inseparable companion of honor. With all the temptations and degradations that beset it, politics is still the noblest career any man can choose.

Andrew Oliver (1706-1774) American Colonial merchant, politician, government official
Speech (1774?)

More about this quote: wist.info/oliver-andrew/84550/

#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #andrewoliver #career #corruption #degradation #honor #politician #politics #potential #risk #statesman #temptation

Those two things alone, combined with Carney & Solomon's "#AI for All" nonsense should confirm who this government is actually working for, and terrify everyone.

The right has snuck into power via the centre, and preventing debate & scurrying away as soon as they pass bills like this should tell you exactly who is running our country, and what is at stake if we don't defeat them & undo this damage to our privacy & freedom while that is still possible.

2/2

#BillC22 #CdnPoli #politics

Anyone here vote for the Law & Order party? 🤔

In addition to the encryption back doors in #BillC22 - law enforcement can now do a lot of things that would've been unheard of just a few short years ago like:

- Use any & all publicly available info on any Canadian without a general production order or court oversight
- Use any info provided voluntarily by any third party against any Canadian without a general production order or court oversight

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#CdnPoli #politics

https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/video/9.7240293

Leak Exposes Members of Peter #Thiel’s Secretive ‘#Dialog’ Society

https://www.wired.com/story/leak-exposes-members-of-peter-thiels-secretive-dialog-society/

#privacy #cybersecurity #DataBreach #politics

Never expected to reach this stage so soon but my new book on information access, Shining a Light, has gone to a second printing.

Thanks again to everyone who bought it – journalists and campaigners, politicians and the public.

Book available in print and digital at: https://www.kenfoxe.com

#ireland #foia #politics #transparency #journalism

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The cover of the book Shining a Light by Ken Foxe.

Good news for #ArcaneChat / #DeltaChat users:

there is a new small (hopefully growing in the near future) list of public channels for you to join and get more content inside the app!

there is already several channels about different topics, from #food / #recipes, #news, #cybersecurity, #technology, #science, #politics, even gossips!

https://arcanechat.me/channels

Sometimes humour hits the nail right on the head... so here's something from Private Eye that sums up the UK's pensions problem more concisely than any reasoned analysis might manage!

#pensions #humour #politics

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Mock up newspaper headline: Those five reasons more people are not saving enough for a pension in full: 1. No-one has any money 2.-5. see 1.

This sounds wrong on so many levels.

Pentagon used Elon Musk’s Grok AI to fire missiles at Iran, official says
#AI #Politics #Iran
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/elon-musk-grok-ai-iran-missiles-pentagon-b2997321.html

#UK to require ID or face scan before you can make #SocialMedia accounts

https://www.bleepingcomputer.com/news/security/uk-to-require-id-or-face-scan-before-you-can-make-social-media-accounts/

#privacy #cybersecurity #politics #AgeVerification #SocialMediaBan

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#UK to ban #SocialMedia for kids under 16, may impose overnight curfews

https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2026/06/uk-to-ban-social-media-for-kids-under-16-may-impose-overnight-curfews/

#privacy #cybersecurity #politics #AgeVerification #SocialMediaBan

#UK’s #SocialMediaBan for children: the #privacy problems #Australia already exposed

https://proton.me/blog/uk-social-media-ban-privacy

#SocialMedia #AgeVerification #politics #cybersecurity

Ettingermentum: "The Trump administration sends this great message of strength to the world:
'if you negotiate with us for 40 years we’ll just bomb you anyways, but if you fight back for a month we’ll give you everything you want'."
#IranWar #OperationEpicFailure #politics