The Wait Until 8th pledge(waituntil8th.org)

184 points by thunderbong 3 years ago | 188 comments

Pump the brakes on your police’s use of Flock (YC17)’s mass surveillance(aclu.org)

52 points by mhb 3 years ago | 14 comments

SCOTUS declines to hear challenge to warrantless pole camera surveillance(aclu.org)

147 points by loteck 3 years ago | 58 comments

Google just gave Sundar Pichai a $692M pay package(techcrunch.com)

87 points by Arcuru 7 months ago | 96 comments

4k NASA employees opt to leave agency through deferred resignation program(kcrw.com)

415 points by ProAm 1 year ago | 521 comments

NPR article republished by KCRW reporting that nearly 4,000 NASA employees chose to leave the agency through a deferred resignation program.

Louis Armstrong's Last Word(thenation.com)

126 points by tintinnabula 3 years ago | 42 comments

The KIDS Act would require age checks to get online(eff.org)

579 points by bilsbie 4 months ago | 473 comments

EFF Deeplinks article by Joe Mullin arguing that the proposed KIDS Act would require age verification checks for people to get online.

Kids are outsmarting social media bans. That's not a problem we need to solve(technologyreview.com)

21 points by joozio 8 days ago | 28 comments

MIT Technology Review opinion piece by Michal Luria, Aliya Bhatia, and Danah Boyd arguing that age gates on social media backfire and closing loopholes kids use will worsen things.

EU to crack down on TikTok, Instagram's 'addictive design' targeting kids(cnbc.com)

436 points by thm 5 months ago | 385 comments

CNBC article reporting that the European Commission plans to regulate addictive design features on TikTok and Instagram that target children.

Online age-verification tools for child safety are surveilling adults(cnbc.com)

589 points by bilsbie 7 months ago | 315 comments

CNBC article on how online age-verification tools spreading across the U.S. for child safety are leading to surveillance of adults.

Court filings allege Meta downplayed risks to children and misled the public(time.com)

347 points by binning 11 months ago | 146 comments

TIME article reporting on court filings alleging Meta downplayed risks its platforms posed to children and misled the public.

Norway Set to Become Latest Country to Ban Social Media for Under 16s(bloomberg.com)

339 points by 1vuio0pswjnm7 6 months ago | 347 comments

Bloomberg news article reporting that Norway plans to ban social media use for children under 16.