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Majority of Australian youth still use social media despite ban, researchers find

Majority of Australian youth still use social media despite ban, researchers find

Despite a social media ban implemented in December, new research found that most Australian children between the ages of 12 and 15 can still access their accounts on social media platforms.
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13 Apr 2026 | The Record International
Hot Off the Press: EFF's Updated Guide to Tech at the US-Mexico Border

Hot Off the Press: EFF's Updated Guide to Tech at the US-Mexico Border

When people see Customs & Border Protection's giant, tethered surveillance blimp flying 20 miles outside of Marfa, Texas, lots of them confuse it with an art installation. Elsewhere along the U.S.-Mexico border, surveillance towers get mistaken for cell-phone towers. And that traffic barrel? It's actually a camera. That piece of...
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13 Apr 2026 | EFF Amérique N.
FBI, Indonesia take down W3LL phishing tool

FBI, Indonesia take down W3LL phishing tool

A widely used phishing tool that allowed hackers to create fake websites that looked like legitimate login portals for just $500 was disrupted by the FBI and law enforcement agencies in Indonesia.
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13 Apr 2026 | The Record International
Speaking Freely: Dr. Jean Linis-Dinco

Speaking Freely: Dr. Jean Linis-Dinco

Dr. Jean Linis-Dinco is an activist-researcher working at the intersection of human rights and technology. Born in the Philippines and shaped by firsthand experience with inequality and state violence, Jean has spent her life pushing back against systems that profit from oppression. She refuses to accept a world where tech...
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13 Apr 2026 | EFF Amérique N.
Fact-check: MP Nishikant Dubey’s claim on X community notes & Australian tax is false

Fact-check: MP Nishikant Dubey’s claim on X community notes & Australian tax is false

Dubey claims that the Parliament's Standing Committee on Communications and IT had recommended to MeitY that X get treated as a publisher, but the committee's report doesn't mention it. The post Fact-check: MP Nishikant Dubey’s claim on X community notes & Australian tax is false appeared first on MEDIANAMA.
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13 Apr 2026 | MediaNama India Asie-Pacifique
War as a Pretext: Gulf States Are Tightening the Screws on Speech—Again

War as a Pretext: Gulf States Are Tightening the Screws on Speech—Again

War does not only reshape borders. It also reshapes what can be seen, said, and remembered.  When governments invoke “misinformation” during wartime, they often mean something simpler: speech they do not control. Since the escalation of conflict between the United States, Israel, Iran, and related spillover attacks in the Gulf,...
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13 Apr 2026 | EFF Amérique N.
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