E-Bike Industry Blames Consumers For Fires In Effort To Undermine ‘Right To Repair’ Laws

by Cancelthis to /s/corruption from techdirt.com

From the never-mind-the-precedent dept: Fifth Circuit Says Law Enforcement Doesn’t Need Warrants To Search Phones At The Border [While violating attorney client privilege and never explaining what they're looking for]Fascism in anything but name

by therazorx to /s/WayOfTheBern from techdirt.com

With HR 3557, Broadband Monopolies Are Pushing A Bill That Would Crush Your Town’s Ability To Stand Up To Them

by PanzerDivision to /s/technology from techdirt.com

With HR 3557, Broadband Monopolies Are Pushing A Bill That Would Crush Your Town’s Ability To Stand Up To ThemRegulatory Capture

by therazorx to /s/WayOfTheBern from techdirt.com

Techdirt Has Again Been Removed From Bing And (Mostly) DuckDuckGo

by PanzerDivision to /s/Internet from techdirt.com

Comcast Lost 12% Of Its Cable TV Customers In The Last Year Alone

by PanzerDivision to /s/technology from techdirt.com

Will Browsers Be Required By Law To Stop You From Visiting Infringing Sites?

by PanzerDivision to /s/Browsers from techdirt.com

Techdirt Has Been Deleted From Bing And DuckDuckGo

by PanzerDivision to /s/Internet from techdirt.com

Bill Limiting Data Broker Sales To Law Enforcement Moves Forward

by RandomCollection to /s/WayOfTheBern from techdirt.com

Community-Owned Broadband Network Again Tops List Of Most Popular ISPs

by RandomCollection to /s/WayOfTheBern from techdirt.com

Congratulations! The US Is 32nd Worldwide On Broadband Affordability

by RandomCollection to /s/WayOfTheBern from techdirt.com

Music Streaming Services Sell Musicians Access To Their Fans; SoundCloud Goes A Better Way

by RandomCollection to /s/WayOfTheBern from techdirt.com

Illinois Hospital First To Shut Down Completely After Ransomware Attack

by Goingoutforawalk to /s/news from techdirt.com

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence Report Shows Uncle Sam Buys Huge Troves Of Consumer Data From Brokers To Avoid Warrants, Trample The Law

by Goingoutforawalk to /s/news from techdirt.com

NHTSA Has Been Asleep On Self-Driving Fatalities, But Had The Time To Help Automakers Derail MA’s Popular ‘Right To Repair’ Law

by RandomCollection to /s/WayOfTheBern from techdirt.com

India Continues Its Attacks On Free Speech By Banning Element

by Drewski to /s/censorship from techdirt.com

Twitter Suspends User for Sharing Washington Post Story On Pentagon Docs Leaker

by [deleted] to /s/Twitter from techdirt.com

Man Loses Maine Vanity Plates Describing His Love For Bean Mush

by [deleted] to /s/USnews from techdirt.com

TSA Confirms Biometric Scanning Soon Won’t Be Optional Even For Domestic Travelers

by [deleted] to /s/USnews from techdirt.com

FBI, Defense Department Worked Together To Develop Facial Recognition Tech For Drones, Surveillance Cameras

by [deleted] to /s/privacy from techdirt.com

Study: It’s Comically Easy To Identify ‘Anonymized’ Users In The ‘Metaverse’ With A Tiny Bit Of Motion Data

by [deleted] to /s/privacy from techdirt.com

Amid More Game Shutdowns Occurring, John Carmack Weighs In On Preservation

by Myocarditis-Man to /s/Gaming from techdirt.com

How Dare Signal Protect Its Users From Surveillance, Asks Ethicist Who Advises The FBI

by Drewski to /s/privacy from techdirt.com

FBI Director Gets Back On His Anti-Encryption Bullshit In Statement To Homeland Security Committee

by Drewski to /s/politics from techdirt.com

Signal Says It Will Exit India Rather Than Compromise Its Encryption

by Drewski to /s/privacy from techdirt.com

Hundreds Of Authors Ask Publishers To Stop Attacking Libraries

by Drewski to /s/books from techdirt.com

Yet Another Data Broker Found To Give Massive Amounts Of Location Info To Law Enforcement

by [deleted] to /s/privacy from techdirt.com

Twitch Decides A Siren Sound Effect Is Covered By Copyright And Silences Stream

by Drewski to /s/CopyrightActivism from techdirt.com

When Tech Companies Do It, The NY Times Calls It ‘Dark Patterns,’; When The NY Times Does It, It’s Called ‘Being Smart’

by [deleted] to /s/Internet from techdirt.com

Age Verification Providers Say Don’t Worry About California Design Code; You’ll Just Have To Scan Your Face For Every Website You Visit

by Drewski to /s/privacy from techdirt.com

New Jersey Cops Are Using DNA Drawn From Newborns In Criminal Investigations

by Drewski to /s/privacy from techdirt.com

EU Commissioner Pens Barely Coherent Defense Of Spying On Everyone, For The Children

by [deleted] to /s/privacy from techdirt.com

A Reminder from 2017: Law Enforcement Has Been Using OnStar, SiriusXM, To Eavesdrop, Track Car Locations For More Than 15 Years

by SoCo to /s/privacy from techdirt.com

Supposed Terrorist Gets 20 Years In Prison For Uploading A Bomb-Making Video An FBI Agent Made For Him

by Drewski to /s/Intelligence from techdirt.com

Texas: Think Tank Proposes Banning Teens From Social Media

by [deleted] to /s/USnews from techdirt.com

Trump's Social Network Is Rapidly Banning Users It Doesn't Like, Without Telling Them Why

by [deleted] to /s/SocialMedia from techdirt.com

Cops Arrest 12-Year-Old For Pointing 'Finger Guns' At Classmates

by [deleted] to /s/PoliceMisconduct from techdirt.com

Medical Device Makers Sue Library Of Congress For Allowing People To Fix Their Own Medical Devices

by Drewski to /s/TechCompanies from techdirt.com

Torguard Blocks All U.S. BitTorrent Traffic After Entertainment Industry Lawsuit

by Drewski to /s/technology from techdirt.com

EU Buried Its Own $400,000 Study Showing Unauthorized Downloads Have Almost No Effect On Sales (2017)

by Drewski to /s/piracy from techdirt.com

Court Tells Cops Who Got A Man Wrongly Imprisoned For 25 Years That Of Course Framing People For Crimes Is A Rights Violation

by Drewski to /s/PoliceMisconduct from techdirt.com

When The FBI Shows Up At Your Door About Your Reporting, That's Intimidation

by Drewski to /s/Intelligence from techdirt.com

Missouri Admits It Fucked Up In Exposing Teacher Data, Offers Apology To Teachers -- But Not To Journalists It Falsely Accused Of Hacking

by Drewski to /s/Security from techdirt.com

Sci-Hub Celebrates 10 Years Of Existence, With A Record 88 Million Papers Available, And A Call For Funds To Help It Add AI And Go Open Source

by Drewski to /s/technology from techdirt.com

Documents Show NYPD Has A Secret Surveillance Tech Slush Fund

by [deleted] to /s/Surveillance from techdirt.com

Oklahoma Deputies Steal $141,500 From Men Trying To Buy Land, Manage To Make $10,000 Of It Disappear

by Drewski to /s/corruption from techdirt.com

Techdirt Is Now Entirely Without Any Google Ads Or Tracking Code

by [deleted] to /s/privacy from techdirt.com

is it time to stop murdering the corrupt yet?

by thefirststone to /s/censorship from techdirt.com

FBI Scores Itself Another Lawsuit For Using The No Fly List To Punish A Lebanese Man For Not Becoming An Informant

by Drewski to /s/corruption from techdirt.com

As Predicted: Parler Is Banning Users It Doesn't Like

by Drewski to /s/censorship from techdirt.com

Coalition Of Internet Companies Who Are Decidedly Not 'Big Tech' Raise Their Voices About The Importance Of Section 230

by Drewski to /s/Internet from techdirt.com

Apparently Trump Refuses To Allow The Government To Do Anything At All Until The Open Internet Is Destroyed

by Drewski to /s/politics from techdirt.com

Trump Promises To Defund The Entire Military, If Congress Won't Let Him Punish The Internet For Being Mean To Him

by Drewski to /s/politics from techdirt.com

You're Wrong About Section 230 Of The Communications Decency Act

by Drewski to /s/Internet from techdirt.com

After Years Of Claiming It Doesn't Use Facial Recognition Software, The LAPD Admits It Has Used It 30,000 Times Since 2009

by [deleted] to /s/USnews from techdirt.com

Canadian Man Arrested For Not Being A Terrorist

by [deleted] to /s/WorldNews from techdirt.com

Masnick's Impossibility Theorem: Content Moderation At Scale Is Impossible To Do Well

by [deleted] to /s/whatever from techdirt.com

Supreme Court To Courts And Federal Agencies Trying To Rewrite Section 230: Knock It Off

by Drewski to /s/politics from techdirt.com

Federal Court: No, You Fucking May Not Force Your Way Into A Home And Strip Search Six Very Young Children

by [deleted] to /s/USnews from techdirt.com

Tone Deaf Facebook To Cripple VR Headsets Unless You Link It To Your Facebook Account

by [deleted] to /s/technology from techdirt.com

Michigan Supreme Court: Selling A $24,000 House (And Keeping The Proceeds) Over An $8.41 Debt Is Unlawful

by Drewski to /s/news from techdirt.com

The Harry Potter Films Are Now Exclusive To Comcast, And The Streaming Sector Remains Oblivious To Piracy's Looming Resurgence

by Drewski to /s/piracy from techdirt.com

DHS Obtained Protesters' Encrypted Messages, Used Them To Craft 'Intelligence' Reports

by [deleted] to /s/politics from techdirt.com

Puerto Rico Decides The 1st Amendment Doesn't Apply To Its Citizens

by Drewski to /s/Freedom from techdirt.com

Senator Blumenthal Is Super Mad That Zoom Isn't Actually Offering The End To End Encryption His Law Will Outlaw

by Drewski to /s/technology from techdirt.com

Volunteers 3D-Print Unobtainable $11,000 Valve For $1 To Keep Covid-19 Patients Alive; Original Manufacturer Threatens To Sue

by Drewski to /s/corruption from techdirt.com

Cloudflare Removes Warrant Canary: Thoughtful Post Says It Can No Longer Say It Hasn't Removed A Site Due To Political Pressure

by Drewski to /s/TechCompanies from techdirt.com

FBI Asks Congress To Permanently Reauthorize The Phone Record Collection The NSA Voluntarily Shut Down

by useless_aether to /s/Intelligence from techdirt.com

Colorado Town Offers 1 Gbps For $60 After Years Of Battling Comcast

by fred_red_beans to /s/Internet from techdirt.com

White House Now Thinks Harvesting Fitness Tracker Data Could Stop The Next Mass Shooting

by Mnemonic to /s/privacy from techdirt.com

EU Intellectual Property Office Produces Dumbest Propaganda Film Ever, Pretending Without IP There Is No Creativity

by zyxzevn to /s/propaganda from techdirt.com

Appeals Court Reminds Deputies That Standing by While Rights are Violated is no Better Than Violating Them Yourself

by Stankmango to /s/corruption from techdirt.com

EU's Never Ending Quest To Rip The Internet And Free Expression To Shreds Continues With The Terrorist Content Regulation

by Skuly to /s/censorship from techdirt.com

Australian Prosecutors Trying To Throw Reporters In Jail For Accurately Reporting On Cardinal George Pell's Conviction

by useless_aether to /s/pedogate from techdirt.com

After Insisting That EU Copyright Directive Didn't Require Filters, France Immediately Starts Promoting Filters

by Skuly to /s/Internet from techdirt.com

Enough MEPs Say They Mistakenly Voted For Articles 11 & 13 That The Vote Should Have Flipped; EU Parliament Says Too Bad

by useless_aether to /s/Europe from techdirt.com

EU Puts An End To The Open Internet: Link Taxes And Filters Approved By Just 5 Votes

by Skuly to /s/news from techdirt.com

Sites Warn EU Users Of Just How Bad Article 13 Will Be

by useless_aether to /s/Internet from techdirt.com

Sites Warn EU Users Of Just How Bad Article 13 Will Be

by useless_aether to /s/Europe from techdirt.com

Big Win For Open Access, As University Of California Cancels All Elsevier Subscriptions, Worth $11 Million A Year

by useless_aether to /s/science from techdirt.com

China Extends Its Censorship To Australian Books, Written By Australian Authors For Australian Readers

by useless_aether to /s/censorship from techdirt.com

Chinese Police Now Performing Door-To-Door Twitter Censorship

by useless_aether to /s/communismwatch from techdirt.com

LinkedIn (micro$oft) Is Helping The Chinese Government Silence Critics

by useless_aether to /s/censorship from techdirt.com

Despite Losing Its Copyright Case, The State Of Georgia Still Trying To Stop Carl Malamud From Posting Its Laws

by useless_aether to /s/politics from techdirt.com

Atlanta Prosecutor Sues DOJ For Blocking Investigation Of Incident Where Cops Shot A Man 59 Times

by SundogsPlace to /s/SundogsPlace from techdirt.com

California Town OKs Destruction Of Police Shooting Records Days Before They Could Be Obtained By The Public

by useless_aether to /s/news from techdirt.com

TSA Will No Longer Engage In Suspicionless, Cross-Country Surveillance Of Airplane Passengers

by useless_aether to /s/privacy from techdirt.com

ICE Seizes Over 1 Million Websites With No Due Process; Apparently Unaware That Copyright & Trademark Are Different

by useless_aether to /s/censorship from techdirt.com

ICE Seizes Over 1 Million Websites With No Due Process; Apparently Unaware That Copyright & Trademark Are DifferentPiracy

by useless_aether to /s/DecentralizeAllThings from techdirt.com

After Getting FOSTA Turned Into Law, Facebook Tells Its Users To Stop Using Naughty Words

by useless_aether to /s/censorship from techdirt.com

As Predicted, Australian Government Looks To Creep Site Censorship Into Search Censorship

by useless_aether to /s/censorship from techdirt.com

Epson 'Security Update' Bricks Third-Party Ink Refills, Opens Up Possibility Of A Competitive Trades Investigation

by useless_aether to /s/technology from techdirt.com