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The UK's controversial porn block law has been scrapped for good
The UK government has scrapped a controversial plan to require age verification for accessing porn online, after repeated ...
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Apple reportedly pulls app that warns Hong Kong citizens about police activity (Updated)
Apple has approved an app that allows people in Hong Kong to keep track of protests and police activity in the city state ...
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EU top court rules Google doesn’t need to apply the ‘right to be forgotten’ globally
Google argued if search results were removed globally, it would risk abuse by authoritarian governments. Now it only needs ...
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Swedish court fines Facebook group admin for failing to delete hate speech
An admin of the Facebook group “Stand Up For Sweden," has been fined by a Swedish court for not regulating and deleting ...
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Having an ethical framework is the best way to mitigate risks in autonomous technology
Many technology professionals bristle at the word ethics as an intangible topic more likely to show up as a required ...
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Julian Assange: Convicted, unrepentant, and behind bars
Julian Assange will spend 50 weeks at Her Majesty's pleasure
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Here's why privately-owned cities are a terrible idea
Over the last five years, something strange has happened at the eastern edge of Karachi, the crowded megalopolis in southern ...
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Bittrex: New York’s denial of our BitLicense application contained 'factual inaccuracies'
Seattle-based cryptocurrency exchange Bittrex is “saddened and disappointed” by the New York Department of Financial ...
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Stop trying to solve Brexit with blockchain
With so much at stake, it’s incredibly frustrating that technologists are taking the opportunity to tout blockchain as ...
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Swiss watchdog says cryptocurrency mining firm’s $90M ICO was illegal
Swiss regulators have disclosed the fraud committed by Envion AG, a cryptocurrency startup that illegitimately collected ...
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Inside GitHub’s fight to protect devs from EU’s disastrous Copyright Reform
The EU will have a final vote on its controversial Copyright Reform and March 26. If it's passed, it could risk open source ...
