Mass surveillance in the EU

[marioIT]

Apple brings age verification to UK users in iOS 26.4 beta
Users who don’t verify their age may not be able to download or purchase apps.

Apple brings age verification to UK users in iOS 26.4 beta

Age checks are spreading.

www.theverge.com

On Tuesday, Apple announced that it will start blocking users in Australia, Brazil, and Singapore from downloading apps rated 18+ unless they verify that they’re an adult using “reasonable methods.”
EU is next?

 

[marioIT]

Ursula has a new word to sugar coat EU censorship: pre-bunking...
"cause pre-bunking is better than debunking"
prebunking=censorship
and then starts making comparisons with vaccines
hear it, she's crazy!

https://twitter.com/x/status/2031286872874561638

 

[marioIT]

Spain to launch tool to monitor hate on social media, PM Sanchez says​

The new tool, called HODIO — an acronym in Spanish for Footprint of Hatred and Polarisation — will allow the government to systematically track the presence, amplification and impact of hate speech online, Sanchez said.
Online hate was ‌causing ⁠deep divisions in Spanish society, he said, and it was important to start talking about the "footprint of hate" in the same way society discusses the carbon footprint. ( 🤣 )
"We ⁠want to start talking about the impact of hate. When something is measured, it ceases to be invisible," he ⁠said.

Spain to launch tool to monitor hate on social media, PM Sanchez says

Spain will launch a tool to measure hate speech on digital platforms as part of a broader strategy to increase ‌oversight of social media companies, Prime Minister Pedro Sanchez said on Wednesday.

www.reuters.com

 

[marioIT]

the EU age verification app is ready and already been tested

"It is for parents to raise their children. Not platforms." 🤣

https://twitter.com/x/status/2044340323120193595

security consultants already saw it doesn't even respect its own GDPR rules 🤣

https://twitter.com/x/status/2044436001611801072

 

[marioIT]

The European Commission is about to steal your search history in one of the largest forced data grabs in the history of the open internet, and almost nobody is talking about it.
The scope is staggering:

• Every query you type
• Every voice and photo search
• Every autocomplete you accept
• Your language,
• your device
• Your country pinned to a ~3km² grid
• Every result you saw,
• every link you hovered
• Every click and scroll
• The full chronological order of your search sessions

Under the proposed measures for DMA Article 6(11), Google would be ordered to ship the daily search behaviour of hundreds of millions of Europeans to multiple third parties through a daily API feed. Any approved "online search engine," AI chatbots included, would get five years of access.

https://twitter.com/x/status/2048694775520387443

DMA.100209 – Consultation on the proposed measures for Google Search data sharing (Article 6(11) of the DMA)

Consultation on the proposed measures that Alphabet must implement to ensure effective sharing of Google Search data with third party undertakings providing online search engines, as required by Article 6(11) of the Digital Markets Act ("DMA").

digital-markets-act.ec.europa.eu