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An Illinois bill banning AI therapy has been signed into law Illinois becomes the first state to regulate the use of AI for mental health services.

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The mathematics of starvation: how Israel caused a famine in Gaza Israel controls the flow of food. It calculated how much Gaza needs – but data shows how this is being withheld

Between March and June, Israel allowed just 56,000 tonnes of food to enter the territory, less than a quarter of Gaza’s minimum needs for that period …

Even if every bag of UN flour had been collected and handed out … starvation was inevitable. Palestinians did not have enough to eat.”

Canada’s Bill C-2 Opens The Floodgates To U.S. Surveillance

The Canadian government is preparing to give away Canadians’ digital lives—to U.S. police, to the Donald Trump administration, and possibly to foreign spy agencies. Bill C-2, the so-called Strong Borders Act, is a sprawling surveillance…

Canada intends to recognize the state of Palestine in September, PM Carney says.

LinkedIn exposes transgender users to targeted harassment after company quietly changes hate speech policy The changes involve edits to LinkedIn’s Professional Community Policies, specifically the “Hateful and Derogatory Content” and “Harassment and Abusive Content” sections.

LinkedIn has removed hate speech protections for transgender people and people of color.

www.advocate.com/news/linkedi...

CISA caves to Wyden, agrees to release US telco insecurity report - but won’t say when The security nerds' equivalent of the Epstein files saga The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency on Tuesday finally agreed to make public an unclassified report from 2022 about American telecommunications networks' poor security practices.…

CISA caves to Wyden, agrees to release US telco insecurity report - but won’t say when

Alberta compelling schools to remove 1984 from their library shelves while arguing it's not book banning or censorship....

The gig economy runs on hidden rules. A new bill in the US Congress could help change that and start protecting the workers powering platforms like #Uber, #DoorDash & #AmazonFlex.

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Opinion: In Alberta schools, books aren’t the threat — censorship is The Alberta government should not be eroding the fundamental rights and freedoms of some of its most vulnerable community members.

"[C]lassics such as George Orwell’s 1984 and Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale will be banned from all school libraries for all students (ages six to 18). ... [M]any valuable sexual health education books that do not meet the government’s definition of “non-sexual content” will be banned."

Mark Carney is going “elbows down” against Big Tech Canada’s AI agenda ignores potential harms in the hope of short-term economic gain

Mark Carney wants economic growth at any cost. To achieve it, he’s going after tech investment and pushing hard for AI adoption.

In the process, AI regulations are being thrown on the bonfire and tech harms are an afterthought. It’s a recipe for disaster.

The Great Canadian Rights Grab To keep the US happy, Mark Carney’s Liberal government is pushing Bill C-2 — expanding surveillance, limiting refugee protections, and eroding privacy in the name of national security. It’s Canada’s o...

"Canada’s PATRIOT Act in miniature is reminiscent of the post-9/11 era of American panic and security overreach, which found its mirror in Canada through anti-terror and surveillance laws ... This time, however, the overreaction isn’t driven by a terrorist attack but by the hope of a trade deal"

Canada’s Bill C-2 Opens the Floodgates to U.S. Surveillance The Canadian government is preparing to give away Canadians’ digital lives—to U.S. police, to the Donald Trump administration, and possibly to foreign spy agencies.Bill C-2, the so-called Strong Borde...

The Bill C-2 reviews keep coming in - and they're ALL bad!

Here's our friends at @eff.org documenting how severely out of line @mark-carney.bsky.social's surveillance bill and joining with us to call for it to be fully abandoned!

www.eff.org/deeplinks/20...

Plan to intercept encrypted messages without undermining privacy ‘a fantasy’ Jim O'Callaghan has been accused of peddling a "fantasy" after promising legislation allowing for the interception of messages sent on encrypted platforms like WhatsApp or Signal. The justice, home af...

ICCL is deeply concerned by the proposal in the Communications (Interception and Lawful Access) Bill to allow for the interception of encrypted messages for law enforcement access (1) ➡️ www.irishlegal.com/articles/pla...

NEW: The United States government has subjected immigrants detained in three Florida facilities to abusive, degrading, and in some cases life-threatening conditions. www.hrw.org/news/2025/07...

Canada’s outdated laws leave spyware oversight dangerously weak Canada’s laws lag far behind the spyware tools used by police — leaving civil liberties, privacy, and national security exposed.

Writing for @policyoptions.irpp.org, the Citizen Lab’s Kate Robertson and Song-Ly Tran discuss how 🇨🇦 Canada’s outdated wiretap laws fail to protect Canadians from spyware abuse.

Read it here:
policyoptions.irpp.org/magazines/ju...

Canada’s Bill C-2 Opens the Floodgates to U.S. Surveillance The Canadian government is preparing to give away Canadians’ digital lives—to U.S. police, to the Donald Trump administration, and possibly to foreign spy agencies.Bill C-2, the so-called Strong Borde...

Canada’s Bill C-2 is a Trojan horse, being pushed to align with U.S. surveillance demands. EFF joins @cancivlib.bsky.social OpenMediaOrg.bsky.social, and @citizenlab.ca in saying: Withdraw it.

Lest you say "it's not like that in the United States," I am currently representing a person facing criminal charges for - and this is true - saying "protect trans kids" during a school board meeting

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Inside ICE’s Supercharged Facial Recognition App of 200 Million Images 404 Media has seen user manuals for Mobile Fortify, ICE’s new facial recognition app which allows officers to instantly look up DHS, State Department, and state law enforcement databases by just point...

This is truly wild: @josephcox.bsky.social got the user manual for ICE's new facial recognition app, which appears to be one of the most powerful face rec systems ever because it is connected to tons of different government databases and surveillance systems

www.404media.co/inside-ices-...

DHS Faces New Pressure Over DNA Taken From Immigrant Children The US government has added the DNA of approximately 133,000 migrant children and teens to a criminal database, which critics say could mean police treat them like suspects “indefinitely.”

NEW: The US government has added the DNA of approximately 133,000 migrant children and teens to a criminal database, which critics say could mean police treat them like suspects “indefinitely.”

OpenMedia's summer fundraising drive is now in full swing!

We're asking your help to meet our fundraising goal of $40,000 and keep our work going into this fall, and for many years to come.
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While it’s received understandable less attention by scholars, journalists, and civil society, I think it’s notable that Canada’s Bill C-2 will amend the Oceans Act, and specifically the section dealing with the Coast Guard.

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CCLA and coalition of coalitions call for withdrawal of Bill C-2 - CCLA On June 18, the CCLA joined over 300 organizations grouped in four large coalitions to call for the withdrawal of Bill C-2 for its erosion of privacy and migrant rights.

Last month, CCLA joined calls on the government to withdraw Bill C-2, which would undermine privacy, cybersecurity and migrant rights.

The Bill includes a flawed and expansive regime that would let the government reshape how digital services operate to facilitate state surveillance.

Elon Musk, X logo, French complaint

A criminal investigation into Twitter/X has been initiated by French prosecutors, over allegations that its algorithm is manipulated for the purposes of "foreign interference"

The probe focuses on claims X's algorithms were altered to distort user discourse and potentially mislead users. Hmm... 🤔

Media Matters Sues F.T.C. Over Advertising Investigation

Media Matters is suing the Federal Trade Commission, arguing the agency is infringing on its free speech rights with its investigation into the organization www.nytimes.com/2025/06/23/t...

Beginning July 9, 2015, Chinese police arrested over 300 human rights lawyers and advocates in a nationwide operation known as the “709 crackdown.”

In the decade since, authorities have subjected many of them to surveillance, harassment, public shaming, and collective punishment. bit.ly/4lfbzkn

Inquiry says at least 13 people took their life as a result of UK's Post Office scandal The inquiry also finds that hundreds of people were wrongly prosecuted and convicted of theft, fraud and false accounting due to incorrect data in an information technology system.

At least 13 people reportedly died by suicide over UK's Post Office scandal, inquiry finds www.abc.net.au/news/2025-07...

Good news. @knightcolumbia.org wins their appeal to have the El Faro journalists' lawsuit against NSO Group remanded to the court for re-consideration after it was thrown out for jurisdictional reasons.

Here's our @citizenlab.ca report that kicked it all off 👇
citizenlab.ca/2022/01/proj...

Predictive Capital – Roads to terminal alienation, soil to server farm, reason to vibe So-called ‘AI’ —more accurately: Predictive Capital— is the latest instrument in Capital’s apparatus of alienation. It steals our work, simulates our labour, reanimates our expression, autocompletes o...

“George Tooker captures the affective toll of systems designed to impose the cold brutal regimen of machinic process upon the warm beating pluralities of human life.”
www.creativeapplications.net/theory/predi...

Masked, Armed and Forceful: Finding Patterns in Los Angeles Immigration Raids - bellingcat Bellingcat collected videos and images from recent immigration raids in Los Angeles, analysing trends and apparent tactics used by law enforcement.

Armed officers, frequent use of force and people grabbed on the street or at their places of work. Working with @evidentmedia.org and @calmatters.org we have monitored the LA raids, discovering recurring trends and tactics used by officers. www.bellingcat.com/news/2025/07...