by Adre's IT | 31 January, 2023 | Adre's IT Blog, Animoca Brands, censorship, clearview ai, crimea, Internet freedom, Max Schrems, mosquitoes, sustainable tourism
The Russian government has blocked another encrypted email provider, according to a Russian digital rights organization and the email provider. Last Wednesday, Roskomsvoboda, which describes itself as “the first Russian public organization active in the field of...
by Adre's IT | 6 October, 2022 | Adre's IT Blog, censorship, CNBC, launch center pro, robotexts
Tools helping China’s netizens to bypass the Great Firewall appear to be facing a fresh round of crackdowns in the run-up to the country’s quinquennial party congress that will see a top leadership reshuffle. Greater censorship is not at all uncommon...
by Adre's IT | 1 October, 2022 | Adre's IT Blog, censorship, clearview ai, CNBC, dji drone, embedded insurance, robotexts
Google appears to have disabled access to Google Translate in parts of China, redirecting visitors to the Hong Kong domain — which isn’t accessible from the mainland. According to users on Reddit and site archives viewed by TechCrunch, Google swapped the...
by Adre's IT | 16 August, 2022 | Adre's IT Blog, Alex Stamos, anonymity, bilibili, censorship, cloud infrastructure, CNBC, Code Against COVID-19, computing, contact tracing, Contrarian Ventures, ecomm, Enterprise, gig workers, integrated circuits, L3, machine learning, Mobile, oracle, Robyn Denholm, Security, TC, Teslaquila, U.S. government, United States, word processing
Oracle has begun auditing TikTok’s algorithms and content moderation models, according to a new report from Axios out this morning. Those reviews began last week, and follow TikTok’s June announcement it had moved its U.S. traffic to Oracle servers amid...
by Adre's IT | 30 April, 2022 | Adre's IT Blog, blogs, censorship, contacts tracing, digital advertising, falcon, gig workers, TC
On Friday afternoon, former Twitter chief executive Jack Dorsey turned to the platform that he co-created to speak about its future, days after the company was bought for $44 billion by Elon Musk. In the vague thread, Dorsey said he doesn’t believe in permanent...
by Adre's IT | 27 April, 2022 | Adre's IT Blog, artificial intelligence, censorship, contacts tracing, Europe, falcon, ford f-150 lightning, gig workers, LG, online disinformation, online harms, Policy, renewables, speech, TC
Elon Musk joked earlier this month that he hoped buying Twitter won’t be too painful for him. But the self-proclaimed “free speech absolutist” may indeed be inviting a world of pain for himself (and his wallet) if he sets the platform on a collision...
