A Rare Age Verification Win, AI Cameras On School Buses, And A License Plate Tracking Ban
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The episode discusses recent developments in age verification laws, AI surveillance on school buses, and a proposed ban on automatic license plate tracking.
A rare and genuine win against age verification with California following Colorado in exempting Linux and other open source operating systems from its Digital Age Assurance Act, directly because of community pressure. Plus AI cameras on tens of thousands of school buses being quietly repurposed for police access, a bipartisan amendment that could end nationwide automatic license plate reader programs, the open source supply chain under unprecedented attack, and a Trump Mobile data leak. In this episode: Highlight: Age verification laws are coming for everyone except open source BusPatrol AI school bus cameras now angling for police access Bipartisan amendment to end nationwide police license plate tracking Defense Bulletin: data breaches at Trump Mobile, 7-Eleven, Charter, plus a major GitHub/TanStack supply chain compromise Threats: open source code poisoned at unprecedented scale, AI agents imperiled by critical vulnerability, Defender zero-days, Apex One zero-day, Linux kernel privilege escalation, Mullvad on exit-IP fingerprinting, Texas AG sues Meta over WhatsApp encryption FOSS+ Updates: Tails 7.8, Firefox's new design, Tuta improvements, AltStore on-device sideloading…
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