Apple brings age verification to UK users in iOS 26.4 beta
Users who don’t verify their age may not be able to download or purchase apps.
theverge.com/tech/884306/apple-age-verificat…os-26-4-beta
On Tuesday, Apple announced that it will start blocking users in Australia, Brazil, and Singapore from downloading apps rated 18+ unless they verify that they’re an adult using “reasonable methods.”
EU is next?
The new tool, called HODIO — an acronym in Spanish for Footprint of Hatred and Polarisation — will allow the government to systematically track the presence, amplification and impact of hate speech online, Sanchez said.
Online hate was causing deep divisions in Spanish society, he said, and it was important to start talking about the "footprint of hate" in the same way society discusses the carbon footprint. ( 🤣 )
"We want to start talking about the impact of hate. When something is measured, it ceases to be invisible," he said.
The European Commission is about to steal your search history in one of the largest forced data grabs in the history of the open internet, and almost nobody is talking about it.
The scope is staggering:
Under the proposed measures for DMA Article 6(11), Google would be ordered to ship the daily search behaviour of hundreds of millions of Europeans to multiple third parties through a daily API feed. Any approved "online search engine," AI chatbots included, would get five years of access.
After being defeated a bunch of times... now they found a way to put it on vote this week...
talking about Chat Control (the power that gives EU all the authority to read every private message, photo, and file scanned automatically: no suspicion required, no exceptions.)
On 7 July, MEPs voted 331–303 to fast-track the return of Chat Control 1.0 mass scanning.
A binding vote follows Thursday, 9 July, where an absolute majority of 361 MEPs is needed to stop it.
The bad news: Thursday is the last day before the summer recess, and many MEPs are likely already on their way to vacation. 😮
Of course this schedule was casual 😡
the only country opposing is Italy as you can see in the link below o_O
watch the faces of the dictators imposing this shit. You will see left, you will see right... almost anywhere only the small parties are opposing it.
Even in countries like Romania and Bulgaria are supporting it (blackmailed?)
🇪🇺 The EU is now for the 6th time trying to force Chat Control through which lets them scan ALL your private messages, photos and emails without a warrant
Implictly showing the EU is not democratic and not about what the people of Europe want, because once a law is rejected, you just re-submit it until nobody is watching and it's passed
November 2023: ❌ Chat Control is rejected
June 2024: ❌ Chat Control is rejected
October 2025: ❌ Chat Control is rejected
November 2025: ❌ Chat Control is rejected
March 2026: ❌ Chat Control is rejected
July 2026: 📝 Chat Control is back
Even the EU's own lawyers stated Chat Control is unconstitutional: "generalised message scanning is incompatible with Article 7 of the EU Charter"
You have to wonder why the EU is so adament about reading your private chats, right?
translated:
I tried to stop the Chat Control today.
Over the weekend, Sibylle Berg and I had to inform Parliament President Metsola in writing that ramming through the Chat Control in fast-track proceedings unfortunately violates the European Parliament's Rules of Procedure.
While Metsola then (incorrectly) informed the interested press that everything was in order, we're still waiting for her response.
That's why I wanted to explain it to her once more today at the opening session in Strasbourg.
And was astonished to discover that the President does know the rules after all: Exactly after 60 seconds, she had my microphone cut off.
(Fully compliant with the rules, but rarely enforced)
And yet I still had quite a bit to say:
"Madam President, pursuant to Article 22, you oversee this body of rules (waving the printed Rules of Procedure)—declare the urgent motion inadmissible.
After all, we're not in Malta here! I'd be happy to hand you the current version of the Rules of Procedure in person.
In the MEP Bar. "So what happens next? Tomorrow, they'll vote on the fast-track proceedings, even though this vote shouldn't even be taking place.
If the motion passes, the Chat Control will come to a plenary vote on Thursday afternoon.
To stop it at that point, 361 Members of Parliament—a qualified majority—would need to vote AGAINST it.
The bad news: Thursday is the last day before the summer recess, and many MEPs are likely already on their way to vacation.
A scoundrel, anyone who thinks ill of this scheduling...
If the Chat Control passes, the platforms (that is, the US tech bros) will once again—and ongoing—be able to happily and fully legally scan your messages.
So please write something more entertaining in the coming weeks...
marioIT said:After being defeated a bunch of times... now they found a way to put it on vote this week...
talking about Chat Control (the power that gives EU all the authority to read every private message, photo, and file scanned automatically: no suspicion required, no exceptions.)On 7 July, MEPs voted 331–303 to fast-track the return of Chat Control 1.0 mass scanning.
A binding vote follows Thursday, 9 July, where an absolute majority of 361 MEPs is needed to stop it.
The bad news: Thursday is the last day before the summer recess, and many MEPs are likely already on their way to vacation. 😮
Of course this schedule was casual 😡the only country opposing is Italy as you can see in the link below o_O
watch the faces of the dictators imposing this shit. You will see left, you will see right... almost anywhere only the small parties are opposing it.
Even in countries like Romania and Bulgaria are supporting it (blackmailed?)🇪🇺 The EU is now for the 6th time trying to force Chat Control through which lets them scan ALL your private messages, photos and emails without a warrant
Implictly showing the EU is not democratic and not about what the people of Europe want, because once a law is rejected, you just re-submit it until nobody is watching and it's passed
November 2023: ❌ Chat Control is rejected
June 2024: ❌ Chat Control is rejected
October 2025: ❌ Chat Control is rejected
November 2025: ❌ Chat Control is rejected
March 2026: ❌ Chat Control is rejected
July 2026: 📝 Chat Control is backEven the EU's own lawyers stated Chat Control is unconstitutional: "generalised message scanning is incompatible with Article 7 of the EU Charter"
You have to wonder why the EU is so adament about reading your private chats, right?
translated:
The only deterrent to these people is fatal violent force. They do NOT understand anything else.
jafo said:The only deterrent to these people is fatal violent force. They do NOT understand anything else.
That's the mistake Jimmy Lai made (all the way to the rest of his life in prison, anyways) and the Hong Kong protestors made. They believed having "moral superiority" would get them somewhere. There were a few key people that had the opportunity to tell the populace to rise up, and fight back. Instead they went the way of "peace" which is the most violent thing they could have done, their city is lost indefinitely, to the CCP psychopaths who have hauled the peacenicks into prison without even a fight.
Ursula will be left reading only messages in Arabic from the same people she actively brought into Europe. She will be surprised that nobody wants to rape her.
sampledSky said:That's the mistake Jimmy Lai made (all the way to the rest of his life in prison, anyways) and the Hong Kong protestors made. They believed having "moral superiority" would get them somewhere. There were a few key people that had the opportunity to tell the populace to rise up, and fight back. Instead they went the way of "peace" which is the most violent thing they could have done, their city is lost indefinitely, to the CCP psychopaths who have hauled the peacenicks into prison without even a fight.
I'm living in China full time now, so as a matter of self-preservation, I have to disagree with you! 🤬
Source: Moved to China end of 2024
PS. All jokes aside, I've NEVER felt freer and at peace than here in China. It's so hard to explain. This place just works for me. ;)
PSS. I think it is because they do NOT pretend hypocrisy with fake words like democracy and freedom etc. I know if I f*ck around, I'm going to Find OUT! FAFO 🤣
as expected, they are criminals, chat control is coming as there was no majority of 361 to stop it..
oh btw EU politicians are excluded from Chat Control, their chats are safe... 😡
Denied 5 times already, but if they are able to find the right day and there's no majority to oppose it and it passes, then it's law. EU in a nutshell o_O
here how they voted. Remember it was a resolution to REJECT, so green means they oppose chat control, red means they want chat control:
howtheyvote.eu/votes/195775
the whole EPP and socialists/dems voted to enforce chat control WTF? o_O
full data in the link above where you can filter by political group and country, some excerpts:
by country it's even crazier!
EU’s martial laws are becoming increasingly restrictive.
Eventually, as it happens in all real dictatorships, citizens will no longer be allowed to leave.
Better to do so before it’s too late. Let the Muslims take care of fixing it, and one day we might be able to come back, with 4 wives Inshallah.
JohnnyDoe said:EU’s martial laws are becoming increasingly restrictive.
Eventually, as it happens in all real dictatorships, citizens will no longer be allowed to leave.
Better to do so before it’s too late. Let the Muslims take care of fixing it, and one day we might be able to come back, with 4 wives Inshallah.
I'm so glad I left! 😇
My anxiety shoots up when I read these things 🤦:banghead:
These psychopaths care about nothing except making sure you slave away for them, lose your freedom, and sit defenseless in your own house while being unable to protect your family.
There will always be ways to dodge their nonsense rules, but the average Europoor doesn’t want to. Throw them some decent infrastructure, “free” healthcare, and nice scenery and they’ll happily accept the cage.
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True power moves in silence.
