Privacy technologies
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4 days agoIf Putin blocks the internet, how was this article written?
Internet access in Russia is increasingly restricted by authorities, with VPNs being disabled and internet blackouts becoming common.
As reported by Politico, Spanish Prime Minister Pedro Sánchez has announced that social platforms will soon be required to implement effective age verification systems, in order to stop young teens from accessing their apps. And to some degree, that does seem to be working. Meta says that it's which it believes belong to young users, while Snapchat has restricted 415k accounts.
The rules in their current form are not suitable for cracking down on, for example, illegal IPTV services or illegal use of VPN connections, because the rules are primarily aimed at illegal decoders and other decoding equipment," the document [PDF] reads (machine translated).