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Belgium bans Internet Archive's ‘Open Library’ https://torrentfreak.com/belgium-bans-internet-archives-open-library-in-sweeping-site-blocking-order/

OpenAI's ChatGPT Agent casually clicks through "I am not a robot" verification https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2025/07/openais-chatgpt-agent-casually-clicks-through-i-am-not-a-robot-verification-test/

JUST IN - YouTube will begin using AI to monitor user behavior and psychology to determine whether viewers in the U.S. are over or under the age of 18. https://www.disclose.tv/id/ycfvc2xs6a/ @disclosetv

NEW - A second Tea app "breach," from a separate database, exposes over 1million sensitive private messages, phone numbers, and push notification access to all Tea users. https://www.disclose.tv/id/bwsmpfgqri/ @disclosetv

JUST IN - U.S. House Judiciary Committee launches investigation into Spotify over concerns the platform is censoring free speech. https://www.disclose.tv/id/4scoexoqqh/ @disclosetv

Bitchat now on IOS.

EU age verification app to ban any Android system not licensed by Google https://www.reddit.com/r/degoogle/s/YxmPgFes8a

Disabling telemetry in ByteDance's VSCode fork increases data sent to its server https://github.com/segmentationf4u1t/trae_telemetry_research

JUST IN - UK Home Office to assemble an elite team of police officers to monitor social media for "anti-migrant sentiment" in a new investigations unit to "flag early signs of potential civil unrest." https://www.disclose.tv/id/fgsp0dbeuz/ @disclosetv

NEW - 4chan users expose a data breach on "dating safety app", Tea with photo ID, images and DMs posted online. Tea acknowledges the breach and are working with cybersecurity experts to secure their systems, with no evidence yet of further data exposure. Tea, number 1 on the U.S. app store this week, is a women-only app for anonymously reviewing men, to ensure women can be "safe" and "identify red flags," with critics saying it raises concerns about potential defamation, privacy violations, and misuse for gossip or revenge. https://www.disclose.tv/id/v4lwx7sa4i/ @disclosetv

JUST IN - U.S. Treasury Department is now accepting Venmo and PayPal payments from those who want to donate money to reduce the nation's $36.7 trillion debt. https://www.disclose.tv/id/xtns6a8fsl/ @disclosetv

JUST IN - Starlink is currently facing a global outage. @disclosetv

UK: Phone networks down: EE, BT, Three, Vodafone, O2 not working in mass outage https://www.the-independent.com/tech/ee-bt-three-vodafone-o2-down-phone-networks-outage-latest-b2795260.html

So you think you've awoken ChatGPT https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/2pkNCvBtK6G6FKoNn/so-you-think-you-ve-awoken-chatgpt

I deleted my entire social media presence before visiting the US – I'm a citizen https://www.theregister.com/2025/07/21/column_social_media_entrapment/

NEW - Microsoft alerts users of "active attacks" on SharePoint server software used by government and businesses. https://www.disclose.tv/id/rcpylen0ri/ @disclosetv

Replit AI deletes entire database during code freeze, then lies about it https://twitter.com/jasonlk/status/1946069562723897802

Ring introducing new feature to allow police to live-stream access to cameras https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/07/amazon-ring-cashes-techno-authoritarianism-and-mass-surveillance

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