Portland City Council members voted unanimously on Wednesday to prohibit the public – and, in some cases, private – use of facial recognition technology, making it the most stringent ban of this kind nationwide, according to multiple reports. Portland Mayor Ted Wheeler and City Commissioner Jo Ann Hardesty introduced the bans, […]
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Kashmir Group Calls India’s Internet Ban ‘Digital Apartheid’ | Technology News
By AIJAZ HUSSAIN, Associated Press SRINAGAR, India (AP) — A prominent rights group in Indian-administered Kashmir on Tuesday described a communications blackout imposed by India following its scrapping of the disputed region’s semi-autonomy last year “collective punishment” and urged the international community to question New Delhi over what it called […]
TikTok ban needed to punish China over internet censorship: Tim Wu
TikTok is facing an onslaught of executive orders from the Trump administration, an attempt to get the viral app banned in the United States. Tim Wu, an open-internet advocate who coined the term “net neutrality,” argued in a New York Times op-ed Wednesday that TikTok should be banned as a […]