Abbas Jaffar Ali / tbreak - 1Password bumps Family plan pricing 20% to $71.88 USD annually from March 2026. The increase adds AI features and enhanced security tools, but existing users keep current rates until renewal after the deadline.

#ai #cybersecurity #saas #genai #business #apps #pricing #technology #encryption #digitalprivacy

Password management tool 1Password is raising its prices by $12 per year, making the free Apple Passwords more attractive to iPhone users.

10 days / bsky / @appleinsider.com / appleinsider.com

Your 1Password Bill is Going Up: Here is How Much More You’ll Pay

10 days / iphoneincanada / John Quintet

1Password plans are getting more expensive soon

10 days / engadget / Anna Washenko

Price hike: 1Password increasing the cost of annual plans

10 days / appleinsider

1Password Getting More Expensive Starting in March

10 days / macrumors / Juli Clover

1Password's $12 price bump tests user loyalty with 'AI-powered' features

10 days / tbreak / Abbas Jaffar Ali

1Password is going up in price

10 days / theverge / Emma Roth

1Password pricing increasing up to 33% in March

10 days / ycombinator

Someone made an app to warn you if smart glasses are nearby

Andre Revilla / engadget - A new app will notify users if smart glasses are likely nearby. The aptly named Nearby Glasses was developed in response to media coverage outlining how glasses like Meta's Ray-Bans have been used to film people without their consent.As first reported by …

#ar #mixedreality #mobile #meta #camera #apps #gadgets #digitalprivacy

This Meta smartglasses-detecting app is a great model for Apple Glass developers to follow

10 days / appleinsider

10 days / engadget / Andre Revilla

Nearby Glasses

10 days / ycombinator

This App Warns You if Someone Is Wearing Smart Glasses Nearby

10 days / 404media / Joseph Cox

Russia launches terror probe into Telegram chief Pavel Durov

Milena Wälde / politico - Moscow claims the messaging platform has been used in thousands of cases of sabotage, terrorism and extremism.

#government #internet #apps #russia #law #censorship #encryption #contentmoderation #litigation #digitalprivacy

Russian authorities have launched a criminal investigation into Telegram founder Pavel Durov over allegations his messaging platform facilitated terrorist activity, sharply escalating the Kremlin’s long-running standoff with the tech billionaire.

10 days / bsky / @politico.eu / politico.eu

Russia launches terror probe into Telegram chief Pavel Durov

10 days / politico / Milena Wälde

Russia Targets Telegram as Rift With Founder Pavel Durov Deepens

10 days / slashdot / msmash

Telegram founder Pavel Durov is reportedly under criminal investigation in Russia

10 days / engadget / Mariella Moon

Russia targets Telegram as rift with founder Pavel Durov deepens

10 days / ft

Firefox 148 Now Available With The New AI Controls, AI Kill Switches

BeauHD / slashdot - Firefox 148 introduces granular AI controls and a global "AI kill switch" that allows users to disable or selectively manage the browser's AI features. Phoronix reports: Among the AI features that can be toggled individually are around translations, image…

#ai #cybersecurity #software #browsers #aiethics #genai #ux #patching #updates #digitalprivacy

Firefox 148 rolls out with the promised AI kill switch: here's how to enable it

10 days / techspot

Firefox 148 Now Available With The New AI Controls, AI Kill Switches https://news.slashdot.org/story/26/02/24/0054207/firefox-148-now-available-with-the-new-ai-controls-ai-kill-switches?utm_source=rss1.0mainlinkanon&utm_medium=feed

10 days / bsky / @slashdot.org / slashdot.org

Goodbye InnerHTML, Hello SetHTML: Stronger XSS Protection in Firefox 148

10 days / ycombinator

Firefox 148 Now Available With The New AI Controls, AI Kill Switches

10 days / slashdot / BeauHD

Mozilla makes good on its AI kill switch with the release of Firefox 148

10 days / betanews / Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson

Ring’s Super Bowl Ad Generates So Much Backlash It Has Ended Its Partnership With Flock Safety

Tim Cushing / techdirt - Eight million ways to die. According to AdWeek, the price for a 30-second commercial during Super Bowl LX has soared to $8 million, after NBC opened in the summer by offering spots for $7 million. As AdWeek notes, “due to demand, the company has already r…

#business #camera #police #media #superbowl #ring #safety #digitalprivacy #advertising

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11 days / bsky / @techdirt.com.web.brid.gy / techdirt.com.web.brid.gy

Ring’s Super Bowl Ad Generates So Much Backlash It Has Ended Its Partnership With Flock Safety Eight million ways to die. According to AdWeek, the price for a 30-second commercial during Super Bowl LX has soared to $8 million, after NBC opened in the sum

11 days / bsky / @techdirt.com / techdirt.com

Flock cameras gifted by Horowitz Foundation, avoiding public oversight

11 days / ycombinator

Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras

11 days / ycombinator

Ring’s Super Bowl Ad Generates So Much Backlash It Has Ended Its Partnership With Flock Safety

11 days / techdirt / Tim Cushing

Americans are destroying Flock surveillance cameras

11 days / techcrunch / Zack Whittaker

Break free of Ring's servers, earn a five-figure bounty

11 days / theregister / Connor Jones

Ofcom issues largest-ever Online Safety Act fine

Oscar Hornstein / uktech - Ofcom has issued the largest fine to date under the Online Safety Act (OSA), demanding that 8579 LLC pays £1.35m for failing to implement age verification on its pornographic sites. The regulator launched an investigation into the company, which owns doze…

#techpolicy #government #uk #internet #law #media #contentmoderation #safety #digitalprivacy

Discord distances itself from Persona age verification after user backlash

11 days / theverge / Emma Roth

Ofcom issues largest-ever Online Safety Act fine

11 days / uktech / Oscar Hornstein

UK fines porn company £1.35 million for lack of age checks

11 days / mashable

Ofcom fines porn site £1.35m for lacking age checks

11 days / siliconrepublic / Suhasini Srinivasaragavan

Tumbler Ridge suspect's ChatGPT account banned before shooting

bbc - OpenAI said the account's activity did not meet the threshold to flag it to authorities when it was identified.

#techpolicy #openai #aiethics #genai #chatgpt #canada #law #contentmoderation #digitalprivacy

ChatGPT account flagged months earlier; banned before the shooting. (5)
Employees debated alerting Canadian authorities over chatbot logs. (4)
OpenAI's post-shooting communications and policy fallout in Canada. (3)
Other: unrelated AI-misuse case from South Korea. (1)

ChatGPT account flagged months earlier; banned before the shooting.

OpenAI Flagged and Blocked Canadian School Shooter’s ChatGPT Account Months Before Attack - pragativadi.com

13 days / pragativadi

Suspect in Tumbler Ridge school shooting described violent scenarios to ChatGPT

13 days / theverge / Terrence O’Brien

Tumbler Ridge suspect's ChatGPT account banned before shooting

13 days / bbc

Tumbler Ridge shooter’s ChatGPT activity flagged internally 7 months before tragedy. It was identified in June 2025 for “abuse and detection and enforcement efforts"

14 days / reddit / /u/ubcstaffer123

ChatGPT account linked to B.C. mass shooter banned for violating policy, company says - CTV News

14 days / ctvnews

Employees debated alerting Canadian authorities over chatbot logs.

OpenAI employees raised alarm about mass shooting suspect months ago: report

13 days / reddit / /u/Hrekires

OpenAI Employees Raised Alarms About Canada Shooting Suspect Months Ago

13 days / reddit / /u/jamestown30

OpenAI debated calling police about suspected Canadian shooter’s chats

13 days / techcrunch / Tim Fernholz

OpenAI staff debated alerting Canadian police about violent ChatGPT logs months before a deadly school shooting

13 days / the-decoder / Matthias Bastian

OpenAI's post-shooting communications and policy fallout in Canada.

OpenAI did not mention Tumbler Ridge shooter’s posts in meeting with B.C. officials day after mass shooting: province - The Globe and Mail

13 days / theglobeandmail

OpenAI contacted RCMP about Tumbler Ridge shooter's ChatGPT account after attack - The Albertan

13 days / thealbertan

Shooter's ChatGPT Ban Sparks Global Debate on AI Safety - streamlinefeed.co.ke

13 days / co

Other: unrelated AI-misuse case from South Korea.

A South Korean female serial killer learned how to kill people with sleeping pills through ChatGPT

12 days / reddit / /u/North_Penalty7947

Google Maps now hides some information until you sign in

Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson / betanews - If you have been using Google Maps without signing into a Google account, your experience could be about to change for the worse. Google has been spotted testing a new “limited view” in Google Maps which restricts access to certain information. When not s…

#dataprivacy #google #internet #comments #apps #photography #ux #community #technology #digitalprivacy

Google Maps now hides some information until you sign in

14 days / betanews / Sofia Elizabella Wyciślik-Wilson

Google Maps is hiding reviews, photos, and more unless you sign in

14 days / reddit / /u/AdSpecialist6598

Google Maps is hiding reviews, photos, and more unless you sign in

14 days / techspot

US Plans Online Portal To Bypass Content Bans In Europe and Elsewhere

BeauHD / slashdot - The U.S. State Department is reportedly developing a site called freedom.gov that would let users in Europe and elsewhere access content restricted under local laws, "including alleged hate speech and terrorist propaganda," reports Reuters. Washington vie…

#cybersecurity #techpolicy #government #internet #us #globalism #dos #censorship #contentmoderation #digitalprivacy

Founder ditches AWS for Euro stack, finds sovereignty isn't plug-and-play

14 days / theregister / Carly Page

US website 'freedom.gov' will allow Europeans to view hate speech and other blocked content

14 days / engadget / Mariella Moon

Metadata, cloud sovereignty’s weak spot

14 days / techzine / Erik van Klinken

US Plans Online Portal To Bypass Content Bans In Europe and Elsewhere

15 days / slashdot / BeauHD

US builds website that will allow Europeans to view blocked content | Internet

15 days / reddit / /u/YesNo_Maybe_

A new US government site could help users worldwide access blocked content

15 days / techspot

West Virginia sues Apple over iCloud child porn hosting

appleinsider - West Virginia's attorney general believes iCloud is the greatest platform ever made to distribute child porn, and is the first government to sue Apple after a previous class action failed.Apple is under fire over its handling of CSAM on iCloud serversThe …

#cloud #techpolicy #cloudsec #apple #government #us #law #contentmoderation #litigation #digitalprivacy

The legal fight that could force Apple to rethink iCloud design

15 days / fastcompany / Taylor Hatmaker

Apple Sued by West Virginia for Allegedly Allowing CSAM Distribution Through iCloud

15 days / bsky / @macrumors.bsky.social / macrumors.bsky.social

Apple Sued Over Allegations of CSAM on iCloud

15 days / cnet / Corinne Reichert

Remember in 2022 when Apple killed its plan to detect CSAM stored in iCloud accounts? (There was a huge uproar from privacy advocates.) Now West Virginia is suing Apple over the decision. www.cnbc.com/2026/02/19/a...

15 days / bsky / @stevekovach.bsky.social / stevekovach.bsky.social

Apple Sued by West Virginia for Allegedly Allowing CSAM Distribution Through iCloud

15 days / macrumors / Juli Clover

West Virginia sues Apple for allegedly letting child abuse spread in iCloud

15 days / theverge / Emma Roth

West Virginia is suing Apple alleging negligence over CSAM materials

15 days / engadget / Andre Revilla

West Virginia sues Apple over iCloud child porn hosting

15 days / appleinsider

Apple sued by West Virginia for alleged failure to stop child sexual abuse material on iCloud, iOS devices

15 days / cnbc

West Virginia Claims That Apple Allows Child Sexual Abuse Material

15 days / nytimes / Kalley Huang

Microsoft Bug Let Copilot AI Read Confidential Emails for Weeks

Markus Kasanmascheff / winbuzzer - Microsoft has confirmed a bug allowed Copilot AI to access and summarize customers' confidential emails for weeks, bypassing data protection policies.The post Microsoft Bug Let Copilot AI Read Confidential Emails for Weeks appeared first on WinBuzzer.

#cybersecurity #dataprivacy #enterprise #microsoft #aiethics #genai #bugs #microsoft365 #copilot #digitalprivacy

Microsoft confirms Copilot bug let its AI read sensitive and confidential emails - Tom's Guide

15 days / tomsguide

Microsoft Copilot Chat error sees confidential emails exposed to AI tool - BBC

15 days / bbc

Microsoft error sees confidential emails exposed to AI tool Copilot

15 days / bbc

Microsoft Bug Let Copilot Access Confidential Emails - findarticles.com

15 days / findarticles

Microsoft Bug Let Copilot Access Confidential Emails Without Consent - PCMag Australia

15 days / pcmag

Microsoft's Copilot was secretly reading confidential emails for weeks, and what it did with them is every company's worst nightmare - Attack of the Fanboy

15 days / attackofthefanboy

Check your Copilot settings after this confidential email bug

15 days / digitaltrends

Microsoft Bug Let Copilot AI Read Confidential Emails for Weeks

15 days / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

Microsoft bug allowed Copilot to summarize confidential emails

15 days / dataconomy / Aytun Çelebi

Microsoft (MSFT) Stock: Edges Lower Following Office AI Privacy Bug

16 days / parameter / Newton Kitonga

New law requires tech firms to take down non-consensual images within 48 hours

Oscar Hornstein / uktech - News laws requiring tech platforms to take down intimate images shared without the consent of the subject within 48 hours are set to come into effect. Through an amendment to the Crime and Policing Bill, online platforms could face fines of up to 10% of t…

#techpolicy #government #uk #internet #law #censorship #contentmoderation #digitalprivacy

A new UK law would give platforms 48 hours to act on abusive content.

15 days / bsky / @siliconrepublic.bsky.social / siliconrepublic.bsky.social

UK to demand social platforms take down abusive intimate images within 48 hours

15 days / theregister / Joe Fay

New law requires tech firms to take down non-consensual images within 48 hours

15 days / uktech / Oscar Hornstein

Platforms must take down abusive content under proposed UK law

15 days / siliconrepublic / Tim Barnwell

Tech firms will have 48 hours to remove abusive images under new law

16 days / reddit / /u/plain_handle

Microsoft Says Bug Causes Copilot To Summarize Confidential Emails

msmash / slashdot - Microsoft says a Microsoft 365 Copilot bug has been causing the AI assistant to summarize confidential emails since late January, bypassing data loss prevention (DLP) policies that organizations rely on to protect sensitive information. From a report: Acc…

#ai #cybersecurity #dataprivacy #microsoft #aiethics #genai #bugs #microsoft365 #copilot #digitalprivacy

Microsoft says Copilot was summarizing confidential emails without permission

16 days / mashable

Copilot spills the beans, summarizing emails it's not supposed to read

16 days / theregister / Thomas Claburn

Microsoft Says Bug Causes Copilot To Summarize Confidential Emails

16 days / slashdot / msmash

Microsoft says Office bug exposed customers’ confidential emails to Copilot AI

16 days / techcrunch / Zack Whittaker

Microsoft says bug causes Copilot to summarize confidential emails

16 days / bleepingcomputer / Sergiu Gatlan

Meta patented LLM that would post for users after they die

mashable - Meta recently won a patent for an LLM that would simulate users' accounts and post, like, and comment on their behalf, including for the accounts of people who have died.

#ai #techpolicy #meta #aiethics #genai #law #contentmoderation #intellectualproperty #digitalprivacy

Meta’s “After You Die” AI Just Got Patented

17 days / theresanaiforthat / There's An AI For That

Meta patented LLM that would post for users after they die

17 days / mashable

Meta patents AI that could continue posting on social media on behalf of deceased users

17 days / techspot

Meta patents AI that lets dead people post from the great beyond

17 days / fastcompany / Chris Morris

These are the countries moving to ban social media for children

Aisha Malik / techcrunch - Australia was the first country to issue a ban in late 2025, aiming to reduce the pressures and risks that young users may face on social media, including cyberbullying, social media addiction, and exposure to predators.

#techpolicy #government #uk #mentalhealth #australia #contentmoderation #safety #digitalprivacy #regulation

Australia's ban: reports show harms for disabled and isolated youth (2)
Parliamentary push: UK and allies seek age-based social limits (7)
Platforms and studies: age checks, user exodus, and Meta research (2)
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Australia's ban: reports show harms for disabled and isolated youth

Australia’s Social Media Ban Is Isolating Kids With Disabilities—Just Like Critics Warned

17 days / techdirt / Mike Masnick

These are the countries moving to ban social media for children

17 days / techcrunch / Aisha Malik

Parliamentary push: UK and allies seek age-based social limits

More countries weigh social media bans for children

17 days / semafor / Tom Chivers

UK Considers Australian-Style Social Media Ban for Under-16s - Central News South Africa

17 days / co

UK Govt to Seek New Powers from Parliament to Restrict Social Media Use for Children

17 days / medianama / Rohit Singh

Turkish Parliament set to debate age limit for social media | Daily Sabah - Daily Sabah

18 days / dailysabah

Starmer pledges to act in ‘months not years’ to protect children on social media - Wandsworth Times

18 days / wandsworthguardian

Keir Starmer declares 'months' timeline for social media age clampdown in UK - theregister.com

18 days / theregister

PM: “No platform gets a free pass”: Government takes action to keep children safe online - GOV.UK

19 days / gov

Platforms and studies: age checks, user exodus, and Meta research

Meta’s own research found parental supervision doesn’t really help curb teens’ compulsive social media use

17 days / techcrunch / Sarah Perez

Discord Rival Gets Overwhelmed by Exodus of Players Fleeing Age-Verification

17 days / ycombinator

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An internal research study at Meta found that parental supervision may not help teens regulate their social media, and teens with trauma are more inclined to overuse social media.

17 days / bsky / @techcrunch.com / techcrunch.com

Meta’s own research found parental supervision doesn’t really help curb teens’ compulsive social media use https://techcrunch.com/2026/02/17/metas-own-research-found-parental-supervision-doesnt-really-help-curb-teens-compulsive-social-media-use/

17 days / bsky / @sarahp.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy / sarahp.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy

Australia was the first country to issue a ban in late 2025, aiming to reduce the pressures and risks that young users may face on social media, including cyberbullying, social media addiction, and exposure to predators.

17 days / bsky / @techcrunch.com / techcrunch.com

Samsung ad confirms rumors of a useful S26 ‘privacy display’

Dominic Preston / theverge - Samsung has released a new advertisement for its upcoming Galaxy S26 launch that all-but confirms rumors of a new display with a built-in privacy mode. Leaked videos show that the feature could be capable of entirely blacking out content from specific app…

#samsung #android #business #privacy #ux #technology #gadgets #oled #smartphone #digitalprivacy

Galaxy S26 Ultra Closes The Gap Between iPhone 17 Pro Max In New Benchmark Comparison, A19 Pro Is Barely Faster In Its Most Favored Test

17 days / wccftech / Omar Sohail

Samsung Ad Confirms Rumors of a Useful S26 'Privacy Display'

18 days / slashdot / msmash

Future MacBooks might hide your screen from everyone else

18 days / digitaltrends

Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 edges past Exynos 2600 in early Galaxy S26 series benchmark comparison

18 days / reddit / /u/self-fix

Galaxy S26 Leaks: Privacy Display, 60W Fast Charging, and More

18 days / iphoneincanada / Usman Qureshi

Samsung Galaxy S26 Ultra rumors: release date, price, specs, and everything you should know

18 days / theshortcut / Max Buondonno

Samsung seemingly confirms Galaxy S26 Ultra privacy screen in new ad

18 days / theshortcut / Max Buondonno

Samsung shows off Galaxy S26 Ultra privacy display in new teaser video

18 days / techspot

Apple Is Reportedly Bringing Galaxy S26 Ultra’s Most Unique Display Technology To Its Products, But It’s Not Arriving To iPhones First

18 days / wccftech / Omar Sohail

Samsung ad confirms rumors of a useful S26 ‘privacy display’

18 days / theverge / Dominic Preston

Future MacBooks May Hide Your Screen From Strangers

18 days / macrumors / Tim Hardwick

Samsung gives a glimpse of how Galaxy S26’s privacy screen will block peeping Toms

18 days / digitaltrends

Homeland Security has reportedly sent out hundreds of subpoenas to identify ICE critics online

Mariella Moon / engadget - The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has reportedly been asking tech companies for information on accounts posting anti-ICE sentiments. According to The New York Times, DHS has sent hundreds of administrative subpoenas to Google, Reddit, Discord and …

#dataprivacy #techpolicy #government #DHS #internet #immigration #law #censorship #contentmoderation #digitalprivacy

Amazon, Google Unwittingly Reveal the Severity of the U.S. Surveillance State

19 days / ycombinator

Reddit, Meta, and Google Voluntarily Gave DHS Info of Anti-ICE Users, Report Says

19 days / gizmodo / Mike Pearl

The Department of Homeland Security has been increasing pressure on tech companies to identify the owners of accounts that criticize ICE.

20 days / bsky / @techcrunch.com / techcrunch.com

Homeland Security reportedly sent hundreds of subpoenas seeking to unmask anti-ICE accounts

20 days / techcrunch / Anthony Ha

Ring Ends Deal to Link Neighborhood Cameras After Backlash to Super Bowl Ad

20 days / nytimes / Mark Walker

Homeland security pushes social media giants to dox anonymous accounts critical of ICE

20 days / mashable

DHS Subpoenas Google, Meta to Unmask ICE Critics on Social Media

20 days / winbuzzer / Markus Kasanmascheff

Platforms bend over backward to help DHS censor ICE critics, advocates say

20 days / ycombinator

Homeland Security has sent out subpoenas to identify ICE critics

20 days / ycombinator

Homeland Security has reportedly sent out hundreds of subpoenas to identify ICE critics online

20 days / engadget / Mariella Moon

Amazon's Ring cancels Flock partnership amid Super Bowl ad backlash

cnbc - Ring's decision to cancel its partnership with Flock comes as tech companies face growing pressure to reexamine their work with federal agencies.

#dataprivacy #techpolicy #amazon #aclu #law #superbowl #ring #digitalprivacy #ads

Partnership cancellation: Ring calls off Flock integration (12)
Surveillance implications: ICE, law enforcement access, AI concerns (4)
User backlash: returns, disconnects, and device destruction (3)
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Partnership cancellation: Ring calls off Flock integration

Days After Its Super Bowl Ad, Ring Cancels Flock Partnership Amid Surveillance Concerns

21 days / cnet / Omar Gallaga

Ring kills Flock partnership amid surveillance scrutiny

21 days / theregister / Connor Jones

Ring cancels Flock deal amid controversy

21 days / siliconrepublic / Tim Barnwell

Ring cancels surveillance partnership with Flock Safety

21 days / dataconomy / Aytun Çelebi

Ring Cancels Its Partnership With Flock Safety After Surveillance Backlash

21 days / slashdot / msmash

Ring and Flock Safety cancel partnership amidst surveillance criticism

21 days / mashable

Amazon's Ring cancels Flock partnership amid Super Bowl ad backlash

22 days / reddit / /u/aacool

Amazon's Ring cancels Flock partnership amid Super Bowl ad backlash

22 days / cnbc

Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash

22 days / reddit / /u/South-Cow-1030

Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash

22 days / ycombinator

Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash

22 days / reddit / /u/MarvelsGrantMan136

Ring cancels its partnership with Flock Safety after surveillance backlash

22 days / theverge / Jennifer Pattison Tuohy

Discord is asking for your ID. The backlash is about more than privacy

Chris Stokel-Walker / fastcompany - Want to use Discord from next month? You’ll have to hand over a photo of your ID or a scan of your face to verify you’re of age. It’s part of a new process introduced by the chat app aimed at ensuring no one underage is using the platform. All new and exi…

#dataprivacy #techpolicy #apps #community #instantmessaging #contentmoderation #digitalid #digitalprivacy

Your Discord Data Is Being Sold to Law Enforcement and AI Companies

22 days / reddit / /u/esporx

Discord Just Killed Anonymity

22 days / ycombinator

Discord is asking for your ID. The backlash is about more than privacy

22 days / reddit / /u/_fastcompany

Welcoming Discord users amidst the challenge of Age Verification

22 days / ycombinator

Stoat wins traction as users look beyond Discord

22 days / techspot

Discord is asking for your ID. The backlash is about more than privacy