Facebook admits to scraping every Australian adult user's public photos and posts to train AI, with no opt-out option

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European digital regulation comes under attack from Trump, Musk and Zuckerberg

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Supreme Court upholds law banning TikTok if it's not sold by its Chinese parent company

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TikTok Starts Going Dark in the U.S.

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US 🇺🇸 could ask tourists for five-year social media history before entry 📱✈️

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US 🇺🇸 could ask tourists for five-year social media history before entry 📱✈️

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UK Lawmakers Propose Mandatory On-Device Surveillance and VPN Bans 🇬🇧🔍🚫

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🔐 Microsoft confirmed it provides BitLocker encryption recovery keys to the FBI when presented with valid legal orders. In early 2025, the company handed over keys that allowed the FBI to decrypt data on three laptops seized during a fraud investigation in Guam related to COVID-19 unemployment assistance theft.

🌐 By default, Windows 11 automatically uploads BitLocker recovery keys to Microsoft's cloud servers when users set up accounts with a Microsoft Account. These keys are stored in unencrypted form on Microsoft's servers, meaning the company can access them and provide them to law enforcement without the user's knowledge or consent.

📊 Microsoft receives approximately 20 requests per year from the FBI for BitLocker keys, though most cannot be fulfilled because users have not backed up their keys to the cloud. The company states it only provides keys in response to valid legal orders from multiple governments.

⚠️ Security experts have raised serious concerns about this practice. Matthew Green from Johns Hopkins University emphasized that recovery keys lack end-to-end encryption, allowing Microsoft and law enforcement to access encrypted data without knowing the user's password.

🛡️ Users can disable the default cloud backup behavior and choose to store BitLocker recovery keys locally instead, but this option requires manual configuration during Windows 11 setup.

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Microsoft Just Killed the "Cover for Me" Excuse: 365 Now Tracks You in Real-Time

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🔐 Starting in March 2026, Discord will require all users worldwide to verify their age through either a face scan or ID submission to maintain full platform access. Users who don't complete verification will automatically be assigned teen-level accounts with restricted features, limited communication settings, and content filtering.

📱 The verification process offers multiple options including facial age estimation technology that processes video selfies on your device without uploading them, or submitting official identification to Discord's vendor partners. Discord says it will also use a background age inference model to determine account age without always requiring manual verification, though some users may need to use multiple verification methods.

🛡️ Discord emphasizes privacy protections for the verification process, including on-device processing for face scans, immediate deletion of submitted identity documents after confirmation, and private age verification status that other users cannot see. Users can view their assigned age group in account settings and retry the verification process if they wish to appeal.

✅ The rollout will be phased and global, beginning in early March 2026, meaning not all users will be affected immediately. Once adults verify their age, they typically won't need to verify again and their Discord experience will adapt to their verified age group.

⚠️ This policy change comes as Discord continues to strengthen teen safety features on its platform, following increased scrutiny around youth protection on social media and messaging services.

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Homeland Security Wants Social Media Sites to Expose Anti-ICE Accounts

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