Category: Opinion
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Jonah Aragon: “Apple is Incredibly Salty” About the DMA
Privacy Guides team member writes about Apple’s “compliance” with the EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) on his website: Regulators, Apple, and tech commenters seem to be falsely equating the existence of alternative app stores with an open market. In reality, individual users will have no more real choices on iOS than they had before, even…
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New Web Browser Comparison by Jonah Aragon (Video)
Some news from our community: Privacy Guides team member Jonah Aragon published a new web browser comparison video on YouTube, based on each browser’s privacy and security properties. Check it out below: My overall recommendation would be to choose both an “S Tier” browser below for your general, non-personal internet browsing (reading the news, posts, anything…
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Jonah Aragon: “Device-based age verification is not a solution…”
Privacy Guides team member Jonah Aragon published a blog post about the increasing restrictions against websites which serve adult content in some countries, and why the proposed “private” solutions aren’t good for the technology ecosystem as a whole: The recent move among U.S. states to add digital “age verification” to websites which serve adult content is a…
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Worried About TikTok? The RESTRICT Act Is Not the Answer Americans Are Looking For
Privacy advocates have been calling for the United States to adopt strong consumer privacy protection laws along the lines of the EU’s GDPR for a long time now, but the proposed Restricting the Emergence of Security Threats that Risk Information and Communications Technology (RESTRICT) Act isn’t the answer we’re looking for. Terrible acronym aside, the RESTRICT Act claims to……