Korea clears exporting map data for Google, ends 19-year dispute South Korea on Friday approved Google's request to export detailed map data overseas, resolving one of the longest-running digital trade disputes between Seoul

How interesting. But Naver Map has some great features and public transport navigation works perfectly.

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What happened today? Behind closed doors, the Law Enforcement Working Party group approved the revised Danish Chat Control compromise with broad support. While mandatory scanning had officially been dropped, Article 4 of the new text reframes and reintroduces it by obliging providers of e-mail, chat, and messenger services to take “all appropriate risk mitigation measures”. This effectively forces providers to scan all messages, including private, end-to-end encrypted content. The same article outlaws anonymous communication by requiring every citizen to verify their age before accessing a service, kneecapping whistleblowers, journalists, political activists, and people seeking help who depend on anonymity. Article 6 further imposes a digital house arrest and would ban minors from installing software which comes with a significant risk of grooming, such as WhatsApp, Instagram, and online games like Roblox. What happens next? The legislation now moves to the Coreper (Committee of Permanent Representations) for approval. Without major political objections, the Council will formally adopt its position. At this stage, both the Council and Commission unite in imposing mass surveillance on all 450 million citizens of the European Union and we enter a rushed trilogue. Unfortunately, while the mandate of the European Parliament does not suffer from the same flaws, the Parliament is traditionally known for giving in. What now? We raise our voices. Louder.

Germany voices opposition to Chat Control, tilting the balance.

🇩🇪 Germany is AGAINST Chat Control:

Jens Spahn: "We as the CDU/CSU parliamentary group are against indiscriminate monitoring of chats. That would be like preemptively opening all letters to check whether there's something illegal in them. That's not acceptable, that won't happen under our watch."

We are alarmed by reports that Germany is on the verge of a catastrophic about-face, reversing its longstanding and principled opposition to the EU’s Chat Control proposal which, if passed, could spell the end of the right to privacy in Europe. signal.org/blog/pdfs/ge...

Chat Control Is Back on the Menu in the EU. It Still Must Be Stopped The European Union Council is once again debating its controversial message scanning proposal, aka “Chat Control,” that would lead to the scanning of private conversations of billions of people. Chat

The EU is once again trying to push a dangerous legislative proposal that undermines encrypted communication and obliterates our rights to private conversations. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...

The EU’s Chat Control proposal has been stopped, for now, thanks to opposition from Germany and Luxembourg.

But the fight isn’t over.

We’ve been opposing this dangerous attempt to weaken encryption since 2022, and the EU will likely try again.

Why does Google think they own my phone and can control what apps I sideload? This is not about security, there are already measures in place for that.
Requiring verification with personal details and an official government ID just to install an app is crazy.

NOS maakt Teletekst beschikbaar via ssh Teletekst mag er dan misschien oubollig uitzien, het is nog altijd onverminderd populair. En waar kun je nou beter zo'n ouderwetse interface bekijken dan in je terminal? Teletekst is nu namelijk via s...

Teletekst is now available via ssh! This news made my day 😃

ssh teletekst.nl

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Open Sauce 2025 vlog: Day 1 (People, Projects, Pee-Board) YouTube video by Level 2 Jeff

Open Sauce looks really cool! Thanks everyone who made videos touring the show floor. Love all the creative projects. #opensauce2025

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