EU-Einigung scheitert: „Freiwillige Chatkontrolle“ endet
Messenger durchsuchen Chats, um Kindesmissbrauch zu bekämpfen. Die dafür nötige Ausnahme von EU-Recht endet jetzt – eine erneute Verlängerung ist gescheitert.
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The US DOJ says a judge sentenced two US citizens to a combined 16 years in prison for running laptop farms that let North Korean IT workers pose as US workers (Jowi Morales/Tom's Hardware)
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💸 Prediction market firms could be making $10 billion in yearly revenue by 2030, Citizens Bank says
https://www.coindesk.com/markets/2026/02/24/from-niche-to-usd3-billion-run-rate-prediction-markets-eye…
Seeking proof of citizenship for voter registration, Louisiana sues federal election agency | Courthouse News Service
https://www.courthousenews.com/seeking-proof-of-citizenship-for-voter-registration-louisiana-sues-federal-election-agency/
The list of qualifying documents in the SAVE Act for proving citizenship appears long -- but many of them come with qualifiers.
Under the bill, a REAL ID -compliant driver’s license would have to indicate that “the applicant is a citizen,”
--- but not all do.
Only five states
— Michigan, Minnesota, New York, Vermont and Washington
— offer the type of enhanced REAL IDs that explicitly indicate U.S. citizenship.
Standard driver’s licenses, generally available…
A citizen of Rome in 117 AD,
under Emperor Trajan,
would've found it difficult to imagine the empire not existing.
The roads, the aqueducts, the legal system, the trade networks stretching from Britain to Mesopotamia:
all of it seemed to be a near-fact of nature, like gravity
Edward Gibbon gave us six volumes explaining how that feeling turned out to be wrong,
and even he couldn't fully untangle all the causes.
But the overarching theme mig…
When an agency can grab people first and sort out rights later
(if they bother at all)
everyone is at risk.
-- Citizen or not.
https://bsky.app/profile/cwebbonline.com/post/3mckfsaf3xk2n