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- uncletammy parentTIL about Flipper Zero and I'm definitely buying one
- Do you have a source for this claim?
- Unless you're a developer
- Can you recommend a service for this?
- Here is a list of every state and federal bill proposed in the United States in recent history (that I could find). Have a look at the letter beside the names of the sponsors. Then, after you've discovered that online surveillance bills are almost entirely written by republicans, go read about how your president is bankrolling ICE and their purchase of US citizen's air travel data.
Protecting Kids from Social Media Act (Tennessee HB 1891) Sponsors Representative William Lamberth (R‑TN) Requires: Social media platforms to verify users’ ages and obtain parental consent for under‑18 users; restricts retention of verification data; allows parental monitoring & time limits. Went into effect January 1, 2025. Utah Social Media Regulation Act (SB 152 & HB 311) Sponsors: Sen. Michael McKell (R) , Rep. Jordan Teuscher (R-District 44) Requires: Mandatory age verification for all users; parental consent and oversight for under‑18s; bans algorithmic targeting to minors; curfews; data‑privacy protections. (As of mid‑2025, enforcement blocked by litigation.) The Walker Montgomery Protecting Children Online Act (Mississippi HB 1126) Sponsors: Walker Montgomery (R‑MS) Requires: Digital service platforms to verify age using "commercially reasonable" methods, obtain parental consent for users under 18, limit collection/use of minor’s data, moderate harmful content (self‑harm, grooming, etc.) Texas SCOPE Act (HB 18, “Securing Children Online Through Parental Empowerment”) Sponsors: Bryan Hughes (R-District 5) Requires: Platforms to verify the parent/guardian age if the account is for a minor; parental consent before collecting data for users under 18; content filtering for self‑harm, etc. Enforcement partially blocked by lawsuit. Kids Online Safety & Privacy Act (S. 2073 – pending) Sponsors: Sen. Jon Ossoff (D-GA) Requires: Commission study into age‑verification technologies; does not mandate verification itself Utah Social Media Regulation Act S.B. 152 Sponsors: Sen. Todd Weiler (R) Requires: Mandatory age verification, parental consent, time‑bed restrictions, limits on algorithmic recommendations; currently blocked in court Mississippi Walker Montgomery Protecting Children Online Act (HB 1126) Sponsors: Representative Walker Montgomery (R‑MS) Requires: Age verification for digital services, parental consent, limits on data collection and harmful content moderation Georgia Protecting Georgia’s Children on Social Media Act (SB 351 / Act 463) Sponsors: State Senator Brandon Beach (R) Requires: Platforms verify age of new users; under‑16 require parental consent; schools to ban social media access Virginia Amendment to VA Consumer Data Protection Act (SB 854) Sponsors: Sen. Schuyler VanValkenburg (D) , Sen. Lashrecse Aird (D) Requires: Requires age determination, parental consent for under‑16, limits usage to 1 hour/day unless overridden by parent, fines up to $7,500 per violation Louisiana HB 142 (and HB 570) Online Age Verification for Adult Content Sponsors: Representative Laurie Schlegel (R) Requires: Websites where ≥ 33% of content is adult must verify users are 18+ via IDs or transaction data; private causes of action allowed Ohio HB 96 (2025 law) Sponsors: Bryan Stewart (R-Ashville) Requires: Criminal penalties for commercial sites failing to verify adult content users Iowa SF 207 / HF 864 Sponsors: Kevin Alons (R-Disctrict 7) Texas SB 2420 (App-Store Age Verification) Sponsors: Angela Paxton (R) South Carolina HB 3405 Sponsors: Representative Brandon Guffey (R‑SC) prefiled Jan 2025 Proposed: Require app stores to verify age and obtain parental consent for minors; still pending Protecting Kids on Social Media Act (S. 1291 federal bill) Sponsored by: Senator Brian Schatz (D‑HI), Senators Tom Cotton (R‑AR), Chris Murphy (D‑CT), Katie Britt (R‑AL) Requires: Social media platforms to verify user ages, prohibit access to under‑13s, block algorithmic feeds to users under 18, require parental consent for minors App Store Accountability Act (H.R. 10364 / companion Senate bill) Sponsored by: Rep. John James (R‑MI‑10); Senate version by Sen. Mike Lee (R‑UT) with Sen. Richard Blumenthal (D‑CT) Requires: App store operators verify ages and obtain parental consent before minors download apps or make in‑app purchases; federal preemption and FTC enforcement - Citation needed
- How does the EU solution make user's whole? At least with class actions, users get to see a few pennies.
I'm not trying to make an argument against strong regulatory bodies. We need those for sure. It would just be nice if the users were compensated for the exploitation and abuse they're subjected to.
- You can't block Windows/Microsoft traffic
- It is far poorer after you account for the brain drain and the opportunity cost of the brains that choose to remain.
- There are many reasons one might use a "login with X" flow that have nothing to do with storing passwords
- What an exciting application of AI
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paid for with revenue from years of predatory sales tactics, exploting defencies in Apple's parental controls by tricking children into buying things without their parents permission then refusing to refund them. Fuck these parasites.
- It sounds like a cool product but I'm unable to read the text because of the white font on a very light colored background.
I'm on Brave for Android
- Maybe in the short run but I think you underestimate surveillance tech firms' ability to extract revenue from governments.
If this technology proves even a little bit useful, I expect that ten years from now, cities will be spending double digit percentages of their police department budget on per-unit subscription fees for these drones.
The political and economic incentives for this type of technology are strong in a state without surveillance oversight.
Especially if there's additional revenue potential for the city ( think traffic enforcement and license plate readers)
Next we'll be seeing ai powered antisocial behavior monitoring as a service for live events. I simply cannot wait /s
- Apple is not the only hardware manufacturer and there are millions of consumers of non-apple hardware that will gleefully welcome this legislation.
I agree that consumers are the real problem but government intervention provides a much needed safety net to keep these oligopolistic practices at bay while users slowly figure out why right to repair matters.
We should be happy for any and all help we can get on this front.
- It forces you to consent to whatever arbitrary EULA that the people running the coworking space probably haven't read.
- I came across your project right around the time that I was considering building something similar.
Instead, I decided to let you do the work for me. I love these updates. Keep up the great work!
- You've just described the value proposition for bitcoin, a peer to peer electronic cash system. Sadly, bitcoin has been captured by banks and is now only useful for gambling and parasitic investment scams.
- I cannot imagine not being furious about both, simultaneously.
That being said, one of these is the culmination of tens of thousands of tiny consent violations made by hundreds or thousands of immoral, largely anonymous villians.
The other is one enormous and brazen violation of the constitution, made by a government organization which is funded by citizens to protect and serve them.
Both violations warrant the strictest repercussions.
- I sat next to this guy at a security conference once and it took everything in me not to fanboy out and annoy the hell out of him with questions abput his work. This guy should be the standard for journalists.
- Implying that someone has access to Satoshi's coins should tank the price, if anything.
If those were to be dumped on the open market, it would eat a lot of USD.
- I would quit my job tomorrow and move to Oregon to work on his campaign. No joke.
- I'm one of these people.
The problem I have is trust. Ads or nit, I no longer trust Facebook to not continue violating my privacy WHILE I'm a paying customer.
The trust has been broken and without data transparency and regulations with teeth, I simply won't give them another chance.
- > The crypto dynamics have shifted the expectations so far to cheap, quick moment they most VCs, especially the a16z kind are more about “Can I juice this business and it’s metrics enough to sell it to someone to hold the bag”.
This strategy existed long before "crypto"
- TikTok trackers aren't built into my phone's operating system.
- > * "Companies are using your reading history to build a profile of you, including political stance, age, gender, location, religion, group affiliations, network of people you know"
... to then sell that profile to your government, legally.
- As someone who has been deeply interested in this type of manufacturing technology for ages, my jaw is on the floor. Kudos to the person that made this. I'm so impressed.
- > We are a crazy but exciting bunch of organisms.
I read this as "crazy but extinct bunch of organisms"
- > The other option is that people would pay to use Reddit or Twitter. But they would lose 90% of their users if they took that route, because what they do does not provide enough value that a typical user would pay for it.
I see this repeated all the time but I've never seen any evidence cited to support it.
Also, 90% of the users leaving when the site switches to a paid model doesn't necessarily mean the quality of the site or their profitability will go down. I'd pay a pretty hefty monthly fee for most of the social media sites that I've now stopped using as a result of their heavy handed strategies to maximize ad revenue.
Also, since when did we start deciding how much value a thing could potentially provide to an individual? Isn't that what "the free market" is supposed to sort out?
- > This energy would've been better at the time of peak-ICO, directed at the worst offenders.
Peak-ICO means peak resources to spend on legal defense. The best time is after at the end of a bear run.