Katherine Tangalakis-Lippert reports: As abortion bans across the nation are implemented and enforced, law enforcement is turning to social media platforms to build cases to prosecute women seeking abortions or abortion-inducing medication – and online platforms like Google and Facebook are helping. This spring, a woman named Jessica Burgess and her daughter will stand trial in Nebraska for performing…
Category: Online
German Digital Affairs Committee hearing heaps scorn on Chat Control
Thomas Claburn reports: Europe’s proposed “Chat Control” legislation to automatically scan chat, email, and instant message communications for child sexual exploitation material (CSEM) ran up against broad resistance at a meeting of the German Parliament’s (Bundestag) Digital Affairs Committee on Wednesday. By the Digital Affairs Committee’s own account, as algorithmically translated, “The plans, which include the…
Reddit Asks Court to Protect Users’ Anonymity in Third-Party Piracy Lawsuit
There’s an update on a court case that involves requests to unmask anonymous commenters. As TorrentFreak reported weeks ago: Filmmakers have obtained a subpoena to reveal the identities of Redditors who commented on piracy-related topics. The comments can provide relevant evidence in support of a repeat infringer lawsuit against ISP RCN, the companies argue. Reddit…
Fake Friends: Leak Reveals Israeli Firms Turning Social Media Into Spy Tech
Omer BenjakobPhineas Rueckert report: Like most of the public, A., a former Israeli journalist, knows little to nothing about the OSINT industry. However, the OSINT system sold by an Israeli-owned cyber firm being revealed here for the first time knows a lot about her – and about all of us, too. Forbidden Stories, a non-profit…