Last week, the UK began residents to verify their ages before having access to online pornography and other adult content, all in the name of protecting children. Almost immediately, things did not go as planned – although they were as expected.
As experts predicted, UK virtual private networking residents (VPNs) have begun to download massively, allowing them to bypass age verification, which may require users to upload their governments, by making it look like they are in another country. The UK’s online safety law is only one part of a wave of efforts to age age around the world. And while these laws can prevent some children from gaining access to adult content, some experts warn that they also create safety and privacy risks for everyone.
Russia’s state-supported hacking group Turla is known for its daring, creative attacks, such as masking their communication via satellite or watching other hackers’ attacks to prevent detection. The group, which is part of the Russian FSB intelligence agency, is now using its country access to the country’s internet officials to mislead foreign officials to download spyware that breaks coding, allowing Turla’s hackers to access their private information.
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Google is running an AI-powered age raming system to apply content protection and apply YouTube, even for users who have not provided their age. The system begins in the EU, where digital safety regulations instruct platforms take steps to protect minors from potentially harmful content.
Instead of relying on user import data only, Google says it will distract the age using a ‘variety of signals’ and other metadata to determine whether a user should be shown limited results. Privacy advocates say the move is inaccuracies and raises questions about transparency and consent.
Google claims that the changes match regulatory expectations and will help protect younger users from inappropriate content. The idea that platforms can distract personal properties such as age algorithmically, and the content based solely on these assumptions can give a new wrinkle to prolonged debates about moderation, censorship and digital privacy.
Only 24 hours after he named Jen Easterly as West Point’s leading chairman in social sciences, the military revoked the appointment to right -wing criticism. The former director of CyberSecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and Academy Alumnus has been praised for her decades of service. But the setback broke out online after activist Laura Loomer demanded that Easterly had ties to the Biden-era disinformation Governance Board.
Nina Jankowicz, who served as executive director of the board, denied that he worked with Easterly in a post on Bluesy and mentioned the episode another example of how we all live in ‘The Domest Timeline’.
Nevertheless, the army secretary Dan Driscoll Easterly’s contract canceled and ordered a complete review of the West Point rental policy. The military also suspended the practice of allowing outdoor groups to help select Faculty. The turnaround is the second high-profile collision where former CISA leaders and political pressure were involved following Donald Trump’s recall of Chris Krebs’s security clearance earlier this year.
Rolling Stone reports a two -party bill of US Senators Amy Klobuchar and Ted Cruz. The proposal, which can succeed with unanimous consent, is estimated to be a response to growing threats against public officials – especially after the murder of Minnesota legislature Melissa Hortman last month.
Watchdogs have joined dozens of media outlets to warn that the bill can refrigerate the reporting and enable selective censorship. Although the legislation includes a nominal exemption for journalists, critics say it remains vague enough to enable members of the congress to sue outlets or to claim legal news releases.