March 16, 2020

Senate bill would ban TikTok from government phones

Concerns over cybersecurity risk and possible spying by China have already brought about bans from DHS, DoD, TSA, and the State Department.

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January 31, 2020

Financial tech firms disagree on ban of customer data screen-scraping

They use it to offer things like budgeting apps. It puts passwords and privacy at risk, but some say they can't afford to build APIs instead.

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January 13, 2020

Reddit bans ‘impersonation,’ but satire and parody are still OK

Relax: Nic Cage deepfakes aren't going anywhere. It's only "maliciously misleading" impersonations that are now verboten.

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January 07, 2020

US military branches ban TikTok following Pentagon’s warning

The latest attempt to prove it's not under China's thumb: TikTok's first transparency report.

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May 08, 2018

Pentagon orders military exchanges to pull Chinese smartphones over security risks

Huawei and ZTE are already telephones non gratae, tied too close for comfort to the Chinese Communist Party and People’s Liberation Army back home.

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October 27, 2016

Sweden bans cameras on drones, deeming it illegal surveillance

The country last week flat-out banned the use of cameras on drones, unless their operators have obtained a special surveillance permit.

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August 18, 2015

8chan back after Google banned entire domain for child abuse imagery

Its founder says the ban was unfair, given that both 8chan and Google take down content using matching hashes after it's posted, not before.

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June 01, 2015

Russian billboard advertising contraband hides when it recognises cops

Ban on imported Italian food? No problem! Don Giulio Salumeria got an ad company to rig billboards with facial recognition that spots Russian police uniforms.

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January 21, 2015

WhatsApp issues 24 hour ban for WhatsApp Plus users

WhatsApp has started giving out day-long bans to those using a third party Android app to send and receive messages through its service.

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