NERDS.xyz – Real Tech News for Real Nerds [Unofficial]Surfshark partners with Amnesty International to help journalists and activists fight spyware
https://fed.brid.gy/r/https://nerds.xyz/2026/05/surfshark-amnesty-international-spyware-training/
Henry FisherI Tried a "Dumb" Screen in a World of Infinite Feeds
I Tried a "Dumb" Screen in a World of Infinite Feeds
Yale Privacy Lab✊ #DigitalRights updates from #EFF https://eff.org
“There are many reasons why young people in 2026 might be more anxious than they were in 1995—and the data tells us as much. But banning them from social platforms and stripping their rights to expression and connection i...”
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AZ Advocacy HubHB2133 would let politicians flag AI-generated content as harmful to children & require consent from anyone depicted. Experts warn it would censor political speech online & could push streaming services out of AZ. Sold as anti-revenge porn legislation, it goes far beyond that.
Hobbs is inclined to sign. Call 602-542-4331 or email [email protected].
Details: https://weekly.cebv.us/2026-05-18/
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James House-Lantto (He/Him)https://www.404media.co/researchers-wanted-preschool-teachers-to-wear-cameras-to-train-ai/
University of Washington researchers wanted preschool teachers to wear body cameras that recorded everything from the teacher’s perspective, including the kids, so the footage could be used to train AI models. Instead of requiring explicit consent, parents had to opt OUT.
The idea that recording preschoolers for AI training should be the default is genuinely disturbing. Privacy and consent apparently just don’t matter anymore
Researchers Wanted Preschool Teachers to Wear Cameras to Train AI
“With your permission, your child’s lead teacher may wear a small teacher-worn camera that captures the teacher's approximate first-person perspective, and/or we may place a fixed video camera in the classroom,” a document given to parents and later shared with 404 Media reads.
Out of Control 
🇨🇦Our family will be emailing our local MP when we get home later today.
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✊ #DigitalRights updates from #EFF https://eff.org
“The NO FAKES Act is “still rife with problems,” EFF’s @ cmcsherr told Bloomberg Law. The penalty for false notices “lacks teeth,” and the bill remains “a recipe for over-broad enforcement that will sweep up all kind...”
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Open Rights GroupThe ICO again fumbled the ball when Reform UK launched its data harvesting expedition masked as a 'competition'.
There was a clear breach of transparency obligations under data protection law.
And yet, the regulator just told people to complain to Reform and come back if they were unhappy 🤷♂️
#ResetTheICO #dataprotection #privacy #ico #digitalrights #gdpr #ukpolitics #ukpol
This isn't a regulator having a bad year. The ICO has stopped doing its job.
Behind all these scandals, real people are suffering real harms with no support.
That's why we need a fundamental reset of the ICO that puts our rights first.
Protect the public, not the powerful – sign the petition ⬇️
https://action.openrightsgroup.org/reset-ico/?mtm_campaign=reset-the-ico&mtm_source=mastodon
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Reset the ICO
Sign the petition! The ICO is failing us. It's time for a reset. Time and time again, the ICO has failed to protect our data rights. They failed to formally investigate the Ministry of Defence over the leak of a spreadsheet detailing 19,000 people who were fleeing the Talibans – the worst data breach in UK history. They ignored thousands of complaints from the public and allowed Meta to press ahead with plans to scrape its users data. They ignored ORG and 70 other organisations who raised concerns about serious data breaches arising from the Home Office’s e-visa scheme.