The LA school board voted to enact a ban to take effect at the beginning of 2025. The resolution requires the board to develop a policy that prohibits smartphones and social media in the hope of helping kids reduce their mental health risks. The LA school district has close to 600,000 students across a thousand […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Regulators, Insurers and Customers All Going After Progress SW In Progress Software’s 10-Q, it reported that the SEC is going after them due to the MOVEit breach; also a slew of lawsuits in multiple countries. They are also cooperating various privacy regulators. The only winners are the lawyers. Credit: The Register Twitter Usage Still Down […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Utah Sues TikTok for Getting Children Addicted Apparently Facebook, Snapchat and Twitter are not addictive since Utah has singled out TikTok to sue for being addictive. They also say that TikTok deceptively obscures its relationship with ByteDance. Indiana made similar allegations and Montana banned the app completely. This will take years, if not a decade […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Arkansas Becomes First State to Ban Minors from Social Media Without Parental Permission It is now illegal for anyone in Arkansas to be on social media without parental permission if they are under 18. Do you think this will actually stop anyone? If you do, I have a bridge in Brooklyn that is for sale. […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]Australia Proposes Law To Force Online Platforms to Disclose User Info Australia plans to introduce legislation that will force social media companies to either take down posts that people don’t like or hand over their user’s information. This isn’t law yet, but I can easily see how this will be gamed. This comes in the […]
Continue reading → [DISPLAY_ACURAX_ICONS]As Terrorists Blow Up Soft Targets, Sri Lanka Turns Off Social Media As Sri Lanka is dealing with multiple bombs exploding at churches and hotels, the country’s solution to the inevitable use of social media to fan flames and release propaganda, in addition to news is to turn off social media. At the current time, […]
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