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The Tech Wave section of the Surf Shop features the best technology-related custom feeds made by our beta testers.

Cruise down to the bottom of your Home screen and tap into the Surf Shop. Scroll down a bit to find the following feeds (also linked here):

🏄 @Sarahp's "Tech News"
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🏄 @seantilley's "Linux Evolution"
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🏄 @mmasnick's "Tech Policy"
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🏄 @tchambers's "Guardians of the Fediverse"
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Screenshot from Surf app depicting Tech Wave section of the Surf Shop against a pale green background. The four feeds featured are: - Sarah Perez’s Tech News - Sean Tilley’s Linux Evolution - Mike Masnick’s Tech Policy - Tim Chambers’ Guardians of the Fediverse
#SurfFeeds#tech#technology
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Fabio

Reading about the EU's approach to AI regulation vs US's market-first model. Can't help but think how neoliberal economic frameworks continually prioritize corporate innovation over social welfare. We need AI governance that centers human flourishing, not just economic growth. #AIEthics #TechPolicy

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Strypey

"I went and talked to a bunch of experts and some former USDS/ GSA government people, who could explain the importance of why US Digital Service, now the US DOGE service, was such a legally ingenious way for them to establish DOGE. Because before then everyone had thought it would be a Federal Advisory Committee, of which there thousands, and they're important, but they're not particularly powerful."

#VittoriaElliot, Wired, 2025

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#podcasts#TechPolicy#USDS
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Brian Greenberg

🚨 Florida’s new “Social Media Use by Minors” bill (SB 868/HB 743) has a chilling twist: it demands platforms create backdoors to decrypt private messages.

That means:
🔓 End-to-end encryption may be turned off
📵 Disappearing messages could be banned
🧒 Minors lose digital privacy
💣 All users may face weaker security

EFF warns this is a dangerous precedent that risks everyone’s online safety. Legislating away encryption doesn’t protect kids — it jeopardizes all of us.

#Cybersecurity #Privacy #Encryption #TechPolicy
eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/flor

Electronic Frontier Foundation · Florida’s New Social Media Bill Says the Quiet Part Out Loud and Demands an Encryption BackdoorAt least Florida’s SB 868/HB 743, “Social Media Use By Minors” bill isn’t beating around the bush when it states that it would require “social media platforms to provide a mechanism to decrypt end-to-end encryption when law enforcement obtains a subpoena.” Usually these sorts of sweeping mandates...
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Daniel Thomas

Perhaps we should stop buying unicorns? You can buy a whole herd of horses for the same price. Sure unicorns can run really fast and carry heavier loads than horses, but they get fat, lazy, and grumpy and start skewering people with their pointy horn. Horses are easily replaceable unlike unicorns and with standardised equipment you can use many horses together to achieve the same goals. Unicorns insist on custom kit that you can't even reuse on other unicorns. #TechPolicy #UnicornCompanies

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Brian Greenberg

🔐 UK Government Loses Bid to Keep Apple 'Backdoor' Case Secret

The UK’s Investigatory Powers Tribunal has ruled that Apple’s legal challenge to a Technical Capability Notice (TCN) — which may compel it to weaken encryption — will proceed publicly, as it should.

💡 Why this matters:

🔹 TCNs are issued under the Investigatory Powers Act (“Snooper’s Charter”), and recipients can't confirm or deny them.
🔹 The Home Office argued disclosure would harm national security — the tribunal disagreed.
🔹 Apple, privacy activists, and U.S. lawmakers support transparency, arguing this affects global digital rights.
🔹 This ruling sets a precedent for open justice in surveillance and tech regulation.

⚖️ A small but meaningful win for accountability and the future of end-to-end encryption.

#Privacy #Encryption #Apple #Surveillance #DigitalRights #TechPolicy

theregister.com/2025/04/07/hom

The Register · UK's attempt to keep details of Apple 'backdoor' case secret… deniedBy Connor Jones
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ilias :thepiratebay:

you know what's worse than companies like Palantir getting involved in government digital services (company that should not be allowed in the first place)? such "promotional" articles by journalists to normalise it. politicshome.com/news/article/

also, ffs stuffing AI into everything is so dumb and stupid that it will backfire later on.

Politics Home · Palantir Boss Louis Mosley: Keir Starmer 'Gets' AI, 'You Could See In His Eyes'In a bid to boost growth, Labour has thrown open government’s doors to controversial US tech firm Palantir. In his first ever sit-down interview, P...
#AI#ArtificialIntelligence#Tech
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ilias :thepiratebay:

I will reserve the full judgement until we see what exactly EU will propose, but this doesn't look good politico.eu/article/eu-gdpr-pr

when we need better privacy laws, closing loopholes, simplification for small businesses, and focus on ethical usage of personal data - EU seems to aim doing quite the opposite in the upcoming GDPR overhaul. I can expect gigantic lobbying, especially from American lobbyists, to water it down as much as possible

POLITICO · Europe’s GDPR privacy law is headed for red tape bonfire within ‘weeks’By Ellen O'Regan
#Tech#TechPolicy#Europe
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