The European Union May Ban Facial Recognition For 5-Year Review Of Tech
By Aaron Kesel The European Union is considering banning facial recognition technology which has raised massive privacy concerns over the years since its inception, risking…
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US Enraged After 6 More EU Nations Join INSTEX To Bypass Iran Sanctions
By Tyler Durden On Friday, six European countries issued a bombshell joint statement declaring their intent to join INSTEX, or the Instrument in Support of…
How The US Quietly Lost The 1st Amendment
By Tyler Durden While many would argue that Americans’ First Amendment rights have long since dwindled from the liberties initially granted in The Bill of…
Bad News From the EU: High Court Blesses Global Internet Content Takedown Order
By Corynne McSherry The European Union seems to fallen in love with the idea of requiring service providers to edit the Internet, with predictable consequences…
LEAKED PAPER: EU Online Crackdown Even WORSE Than We Thought
By Corbett Report Extras Writer and journalist Glyn Moody joins us today to discuss his recent TechDirt article, “EU Looking To Regulate Everything Online, And…
The Dumbest Propaganda Video Ever
By corbettreport TechDirt is claiming that the EU’s Intellectual Property Office has just released the dumbest propaganda video ever: “IPDENTICAL: imagine a world without creativity.”…
Facebook’s Ireland War Room Prepared to Block “Misinformation” in EU Election
By Daniel Taylor Facebook has shown itself to be nothing more than a tool of globalism. Operating from Dublin, Ireland Facebook is set to counter…
Splinternet: EU Censorship Ramps Up With ACTA 2, While UK Passes Terror Law, Porn Law, and Introduces First Internet Regulation Agency
By Aaron Kesel Across Europe, MEPs voted successfully to redesign the Internet with a censorship directive disguised as a copyright proposal, while the UK itself…
EU’s Parliament Signs Off on Disastrous Internet Law: What Happens Next?
By Danny O’Brien In a stunning rejection of the will of five million online petitioners, and over 100,000 protesters this weekend, the European Parliament has…
The European Union’s MANDATORY National Biometric ID Card Will Affect 512 Million People
By MassPrivateI A recent European Union (EU) announcement about national IDs will destroy millions of people’s privacy and create a near-global biometric database. An article…
The Worst Possible Version of the EU Copyright Directive Has Sparked a German Uprising
By Cory Doctorow Last week’s publication of the final draft of the new EU Copyright Directive baffled and infuriated almost everyone, including the massive entertainment…
EU Proposal Pushes Tech Companies to Tackle “Terrorist Content” with AI, Despite Implications for War Crimes Evidence
Op-Ed by Afef Abrougui A new video on Orient News’ YouTube channel shows a scene that is all too familiar to its regular viewers. Staff…
The Final Version of the EU’s Copyright Directive Is the Worst One Yet
By Cory Doctorow Despite ringing denunciations from small EU tech businesses, giant EU entertainment companies, artists’ groups, technical experts, and human rights experts, and the…
Stop ACTA 2: Protests, Internet Blackouts and Hacktivist Actions To Lead Up To Final Vote On Dystopian Articles 11 and 13 In EU
By Aaron Kesel After a short delay, European Union lawmakers are continuing their journey to censor the Internet and have agreed on changes to the…