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What’s at stake is whether “protecting children” becomes a legal pretext for embedding government control over the internet to enforce specific moral and religious judgments—judgments that deny marginalized people access to speech, community, history, and truth—into law.

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Instagram appears to be stepping back from end-to-end encrypted messaging — a surprising move after years of Meta, its parent company, promoting strong encryption as the future of private communication.

A notice on Instagram’s help pages now says end-to-end encrypted messaging on Instagram will no longer be supported after May 8, 2026. The page instructs affected users to download any chat messages or shared media they want to keep before that date.

Docs Expose CBP’s Use Of Ad Data To Track People’s Movements

System76 tries to talk Colorado down over OS age checks

US state laws push age checks into the operating system

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Opinion: Careless big-time users are treating FOSS repos like content delivery networks

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cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/43189320 Access options gift link — registration required archive.today

cross-posted from: mander.xyz/post/47449079 I stumbled across this link in the comment of another post, and thought it was super promising! Someone mentioned something about in the US, this would be illegal due to DRM laws - not sure about the specifics of this, but regardless an open source printer seems like something we’ve needed for ages, as printers are something that always seem like way more of a headache then they need to be. It seems like such a simple technology that has existed for quite some time, but they are always such a pain to deal with. (Maybe it’s just my bad luck with printers?)

cross-posted from: infosec.pub/post/41122324 Google did not admit wrongdoing in the settlement of the class-action case, which accused the firm of “unlawful and intentional interception and recording of individuals’ confidential communications without their consent and subsequent unauthorized disclosure of those communications to third parties.”

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