Topic: digital rights
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Cindy Cohn Leaves EFF, Continues Digital Rights Fight
Cindy Cohn is stepping down as executive director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation after 25 years, during which she led key battles for digital rights, privacy, and encryption. She played a pivotal role in landmark cases like Bernstein v. Department of Justice and emphasized encryption's imp...
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Expert: DHS uses "disturbing excuses" to collect kids' biometric data
The Department of Homeland Security is proposing to collect extensive biometric data from immigrants of all ages, including facial images, fingerprints, and DNA, raising concerns from civil liberties advocates about privacy and overreach. The expansion is projected to cost the government $288.7 m...
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Man Ordered To Pay Nintendo $2 Million In Piracy Lawsuit
Nintendo secured a $2 million judgment against an individual for producing and selling devices that enabled piracy on the Nintendo Switch. The court issued a permanent injunction and ordered the confiscation and destruction of all related equipment, barring further infringement activities. This a...
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Apple's Walled Garden: How It Shields ICE
Apple's legal victory preserving its exclusive App Store control has created a single point for government influence over app availability, making the company accountable for content decisions. The removal of apps like ICEBlock under political pressure demonstrates how corporate control over dist...
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DAZN Powers FIFA Club World Cup 2025 Streaming with M2A Media & Unified Streaming
DAZN streamed the FIFA Club World Cup 2025 globally using M2A Media for primary headend services and Unified Streaming's Live Origin technology for video packaging and delivery. The technical setup featured adaptive bitrate dynamic packaging for smooth playback across devices, along with DRM, wat...
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OpenAI's ChatGPT Browser Sparks Privacy Concerns
OpenAI's Atlas browser integrates ChatGPT to redefine web navigation, initially launching exclusively on Apple computers to challenge established browsers like Google Chrome. The browser features an "agentic mode" that autonomously performs tasks such as shopping and reservations, acting as a per...
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Lawmakers Propose Letting Users Sue Over Harmful Social Media Algorithms
The Algorithm Accountability Act, introduced by Senators Curtis and Kelly, would create a legal "duty of care" for large social media platforms, making them liable for physical harm caused by their recommendation algorithms and carving out an exception to Section 230 protections. The legislation ...
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How LimeWire Killed the Napster Music Revolution
The choice of music downloading applications like Napster, Kazaa, or LimeWire often reflects generational identity, as unauthorized downloads dominated online music access for about a decade. LimeWire emerged as a major peer-to-peer file-sharing service aiming for legitimacy and experimented with...
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Reddit Sues Perplexity AI Over Content Scraping
Reddit is suing Perplexity AI and three data-scraping firms for industrial-scale copyright infringement, alleging they unlawfully bypassed protections to harvest user content without permission. Perplexity AI is accused of using these services to obtain Reddit data for its AI engine instead of pu...
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Sony DMCA Takedowns Target Concord Gameplay Videos
Sony has issued DMCA takedowns against YouTube videos showing Concord gameplay on custom servers, reinforcing its opposition to community revivals of the discontinued game. A dedicated group of programmers successfully revived Concord using custom servers, restoring full gameplay features, but So...
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