Can India be a “third way” AI alternative to the U.S. and China?

The AI Impact Summit in India, the first in a developing country, proposes an option that focuses on public good and development. But can it deliver without capitulating to Big Tech?

Rest of World • 5h

Google backs African push to reclaim AI language data

A new 21-language data set gives African institutions ownership and control in a field long dominated by Big Tech.

Rest of World • 6h

Children bombarded with weight loss drug ads online, says commissioner

The Children's Commissioner suggested social media advertising for children should be banned.

BBC: Tech • 6h

Open Letter to Tech Companies: Protect Your Users From Lawless DHS Subpoenas

We are calling on technology companies like Meta and Google to stand up for their users by resisting the Department of Homeland Security's (DHS) lawless administrative subpoenas for user data. In the past year, DHS has consistently targeted people engaged in First Amendment

EFF • 17h

No One, Including Our Furry Friends, Will Be Safer in Ring's Surveillance Nightmare

Amazon Ring’s Super Bowl ad offered a vision of our streets that should leave every person unsettled about the company’s goals for disintegrating our privacy in public. In the ad, disguised as a heartfelt effort to reunite the lost dogs of the country with their innocent

EFF • 18h

Coalition Urges California to Revoke Permits for Federal License Plate Reader Surveillance

Group led by EFF and Imperial Valley Equity & Justice Asks Gov. Newsom and Caltrans Director to Act Immediately SAN FRANCISCO – California must revoke permits allowing federal agencies such as Customs and Border Patrol (CBP) and the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) to put

EFF • 22h

Speaking Freely: Yazan Badran

Interviewer: Jillian York Yazan Badran is an assistant professor in international media and communication studies at the Vrije Universiteit Brussel, and a researcher at the Echo research group. His research focuses on the intersection between media, journalism and politics