• Letter: Freedom to Vote Act would protect our rights

    Americans must make their voices heard.

  • Potraz in Data Protection Act public awareness campaign

    THE Postal and Telecommunications Regulatory Authority of Zimbabwe (Potraz) has launched a national blitz to educate the public on the Cyber and To access this post, you must purchase a subscription. Please click the button below to visit our subscriptions page to select a package. Subscriptions

  • Tennessee, Georgia, Adopt 2A Privacy Acts to Bar Data Collection on Firearm Sales

    Gov. Brian Kemp (R-GA) and Gov. Bill Lee (R-TN) signed Second Amendment privacy acts this week barring the use of credit card merchant codes to collect data on retail firearm purchasers.

  • Columbia president to lawmakers: Balancing right to protest and Jewish students rights is a ‘central challenge’

    Minouche Shafik defended her administration's efforts to address antisemitism, including by hiring additional staff to investigate complaints and launching an antisemitism taskforce.

  • Petition: Help Protect Right Whales

    Please sign this petition to demand the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Association (NOAA) do more to protect right whales!

  • Is the Wilderness Act Still Protecting Nature?

    At the end of 2023, four environmental groups sued the National Park Service and invoked the Wilderness Act to stop the replanting of trees following a catastrophic wildfire in Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. Around the same time, the National Park Service announced that it aimed to invoke the Wilderness Act to limit the use of fixed anchors on Yosemite’s iconic big wall climbs. How did a law created 60 years ago to protect nature in undeveloped areas come to do something else...

  • Letter: Lawmakers need to protect isle families

    Leadership is hard. Few politicians measure up to this crucial skill set. It requires courage and hard choices to stand up against politically connected special interest money or those with woke thinking. Our elected leaders need to focus on our ohana.

    • Kotaku

    Discord Takes Aim At Bots Mining User Data

    Last week, journalist co-op 404 Media reported on Spy Pet, a site that was mining billions of Discord messages from nearly 620 million users and selling access to that data for as little as $5. After investigating the matter, Discord has announced that the accounts connected to that repository have been banned and the company is considering legal action. According to an April 26 404 Media story, Spy Pet had been trawling roughly 14,000 Discord servers for a few months now, collecting tons of...

  • Regulating AI won't protect Americans; it's about Big Tech having a monopoly

    The more I read and write about AI, the firmer I get in my conviction that Big Tech incumbents absolutely must strangle the decentralized AI in its cradle before it wrecks everything.Take a look at this interview Ben Thompson did with OpenAI’s Sam Altman and Microsoft CTO Kevin Scott. I call your attention to this part in particular:From Microsoft’s perspective, is this going to be a funnel into new products or do you see it as an end goal in and of itself, winning search?KS: So I think you hit...

    • Adweek

    TechMagic Podcast: Balancing Innovation and Personal Data Protection

    Join hosts Cathy Hackl and Lee Kebler in this engaging podcast as they discuss the latest news and trends in technology and innovation. From Meta's opening of its Horizon OS to Apple's focus on enterprise and brainwave protection laws, they cover a wide range of fascinating topics.Discover the potential of brain implants for artificial vision and explore the positive impacts of gaming on cognitive function. With their enthusiastic and optimistic approach, Hackl and Lee provide valuable insights...

  • Firm inflation data underscores budget balancing act

    An already-fraught economic backdrop for the Albanese government’s third federal budget has been complicated by hotter-than-expected inflation data. Consumers were slugged with price hikes for hard-to-avoid expenses such as rents, education fees, insurance and medical bills in the first three months of the year, latest data from the Australian Bureau of Statistics shows. On a […]

    • Snopes

    Earth Day: A Global Celebration Aimed at Protecting the Planet

    The holiday's evolution has paralleled and influenced legislation, regulation and scientific advances.