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The UK is considering new laws that would force YouTube and other social media platforms to prioritize "trustworthy" news sources. If passed, trusted media sources like the BBC would get prioritized over content creators in the UK.

Age verification is backdoor mass surveillance.

🚨Tonight, the House overwhelmingly voted to pass the KIDS Act, a bipartisan bill to protect our kids online and finally rein in Big Tech.

your phone number is personal and sometimes you want to connect without handing it over. that's why we're introducing usernames for WhatsApp. starting this week, you can reserve a username to use later this year when we launch the feature. It takes just a few seconds, make sure you have the latest version of WhatsApp and then go to Settings > Account > Username.

Discord is beginning to implement Incode for age verification, a move that is already sparking serious privacy concerns among users. While Discord claims that Incode processes biometric data locally via on-device AI without permanent server-side logging, sharing sensitive IDs and selfies with any third-party vendor remains a massive red flag for many. Given Incode's controversial history with platforms like TikTok, where the vendor was heavily criticized for long retention periods and storing biometric data server-side, users who expect strict privacy are highly skeptical about handing over their biometrics, regardless of Discord's current technology claims.

Privacy is a right. Not a setting.