American actor George Clooney and his family are granted French citizenship. Clooney previously said that 'his children have a better life in France than in the United States.'

Puddinghelmet@lemmy.world · 18 days ago

And because of this instagram will remove end-to-end encryption and add age-verification

The New Mexico case also raised concerns that allowing teens to use end-to-end encryption on Instagram chats — a privacy measure that blocks anyone other than sender and receiver from viewing a conversation — could make it harder for law enforcement to catch predators. Midway through trial, Meta said it would stop supporting end-to-end-encrypted messaging on Instagram later this year.

Regarding the encryption decision, a Meta spokesperson told CNN that, “very few people were opting in to end-to-end encrypted messaging in DMs, so we’re removing this option from Instagram in the coming months. Anyone who wants to keep messaging with end-to-end encryption can easily do that on WhatsApp.”

– https://edition.cnn.com/2026/03/24/tech/meta-new-mexico-trial-jury-deliberation

In May, Judge Bryan Biedscheid is slated to hold a trial without a jury on the state’s claims that Meta created a public nuisance that harmed state residents’ health and safety. The state will ask Biedscheid to direct Meta to make changes to its platforms, including adding effective age verification and removing predators, it said Tuesday.

– https://www.msn.com/en-us/crime/general/meta-ordered-to-pay-375-million-in-new-mexico-trial-over-child-exploitation-user-safety-claims/ar-AA1ZkHhq

Puddinghelmet@lemmy.world · 21 days ago

https://euromaidanpress.com/2026/03/21/hungarys-foreign-minister-briefed-lavrov-on-eu-meetings-in-real-time-european-security-official-says/

Magyar’s reaction at one of his rallies:

It was also reported today in the international press—and confirmed by foreign intelligence services—that Péter Szijjártó was in constant contact with Moscow via a hotline during every session of the European Council in Brussels. At every moment, he briefed the Russian foreign minister—that is, Vladimir Putin—on what was being discussed behind closed doors by European government leaders and heads of state. Please, this is an open betrayal of European and Hungarian interests for the Hungarian foreign minister to brief the leaders of a country at war with a European nation. For Péter Szijjártó’s sake, I looked up the section of the Criminal Code regarding treason.

Any Hungarian citizen who establishes or maintains contact with a foreign government or foreign organization with the intent to violate Hungary’s independence, territorial integrity, or constitutional order shall be punished by imprisonment for a term of five to fifteen years. The penalty is imprisonment for a term of ten to twenty years or life imprisonment if the act is committed by a state body using its position in public service or official capacity.

What Péter Szijjártó did is outright treason. From here in Sopron, I can send this message:

Russians go home, Russians go home! Russians go home!

And JD vance wants to visit Budapest, Hungary in support of Orban and this current government? Wtf?

Puddinghelmet@lemmy.world · 25 days ago

Hold him accountable or something, yall dont even have guard rails to protect american citizens and hold people in power accountable, america is literally a business trying to make the most profit possible. Citizens rights? Fuq that shit xd

Puddinghelmet@lemmy.world · 26 days ago

Yeah well america is one big business, they don’t care for regular citizens, they wanna know how they can make profit of citizens. I bet that wont ever change

Puddinghelmet@lemmy.world · edit-2 26 days ago

Yeah we should deffo support privacy watchdogs who lobby for us(customer rights, consumer rights, privacy rights etc) and advice the government and when its election time, check who’s the nerd vote

Puddinghelmet@lemmy.world · edit-2 26 days ago

So Meta (and their allies) are actively pushing and lobbying (illegally, if you look at DCA that doesn’t even exist?) for laws that force operating systems to build a permanent age API thats full time accessible for apps?

Why not use a digital identity wallet like Europe : You can prove that you are 18+ without sharing your date of birth, name, or other information (via zero-knowledge proofs), it’s like a confirmation paper from a bank or another institution without any actual information about yourself. Plus there’s parental consent to children’s accounts (as COPPA in the U.S. already does), or like by doing verification locally or through open-source systems, not through commercial companies with a central Database.

They knowingly ignore better, more privacy friendly alternatives to age verification because by forcing operating systems to implement a permanent age API, they create a system that burdens competitors like Apple and Google and Free and Open Source software who sometimes cant even abide to those rules, all-the-while meta’s own platforms are often excluded. Apparently this fits into a broader strategy to normalize surveillance and increase dependence on commercial verification companies, which Meta indirectly benefits from.

I dont really see this changing, I expect meta getting away with everything and getting worse cause look at the inauguration. But musk also got booted so who knows. But in the end America usually doesnt care about customer rights, privacy rights, or childrens rights ig.

Im awaiting the results of the latest lawsuit where zuckerberg had to testify about accusations that social media, including Instagram, harm children’s mental health. https://edition.cnn.com/2026/02/19/tech/takeaways-mark-zuckerberg-testifiessocial-media-child-mental-health