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Privacy news for people who think it matters. Now covering geopolitics.

Joined September 2025
Apple is now asking UK iPhone users to prove they're 18+ just to change content restrictions on their own device. Ways to prove you're 18+: • Credit card scan • Government ID • Automatic account-history check KYC for phones is crazy
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The popup blames the government. The UK regulator says Apple didn't have to do this. Apple chose to.
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🚨HUGE: 🇮🇷🇸🇦🇵🇰🇹🇷IRAN has reportedly been invited to join the Mecca Joint Defence Agreement between Saudi Arabia, Pakistan, and Türkiye. Perfect news to wake up to. I talked about this in my latest article: monerowire.com/articles/mecc…
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🚨BREAKING: 🇹🇷Turkey issues an arrest warrant for Netanyahu
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🚨PlayStation is rolling out age verification for Australian users. Adding R18+ games to your library now requires a government ID or a facial scan. Since when is your face the price of a video game?
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🇻🇪Venezuela's $4 billion, 31 ton gold reserve is being released from the Bank of England after 8 years. It will be deposited into a US Treasury account.
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🚨BREAKING: The Iranian Military is offering Iranian soldiers $30,000 for every American soldier they KILL or CAPTURE. But I thought this was a "broke regime, crushed by sanctions, with no money left"?
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🇨🇴Colombia's new president seems to care more about Israel than the victims that have died in the recent earthquake.
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I wrote an article about this, check it out monerowire.com/articles/isra…
🚨BREAKING: Apple is now sending threat notification alerts to spyware targets. Get hit with Pegasus and it shows up on your Lock Screen and in Settings. Now your phone warns you when Israeli spyware is reading your messages. Is Apple coming in clutch for its users?
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🇫🇷 France's highest court just blocked a law banning children under 15 from social media. The Constitutional Council ruled the age-verification system violated privacy and freedom of expression.
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🇨🇳🇩🇪 China's central bank appointed Deutsche Bank as its renminbi clearing bank in Frankfurt on August 7. First non-Chinese bank in Europe to hold that role. Every RMB clearing house on the continent was a Chinese state lender until now. European firms can settle with China without routing through a dollar intermediary
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🚨BREAKING: Apple is now sending threat notification alerts to spyware targets. Get hit with Pegasus and it shows up on your Lock Screen and in Settings. Now your phone warns you when Israeli spyware is reading your messages. Is Apple coming in clutch for its users?
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the entire US AI industry vs Deepseek
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Not a single Flock camera on the Upper West side of NYC. @grok what religious group lives in that area?
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🇦🇪Seems like the Emirates bent the knee. UAE government jets have been coming and going to Tehran for the last 48 hours. It's very likely they're carrying cargo shipments full of cash and gold.
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So apparently some hiring software now checks if you have payday loans or credit card debt before the company makes you an offer. The more broke you look, the lower the number they start with. They're calling it "surveillance wages" and there's a whole audit of 500 vendors backing this up. Wild that only one state has even proposed banning it.
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🇲🇾🇮🇱On August 11, Malaysia seized a cargo vessel with goods that were headed to Israel.
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🚨Brazil, Indonesia, Singapore and Thailand will be the first countries where Google requires apps to be registered to a verified developer, including apps distributed outside Google Play. Enforcement begins September 30. Google says the global rollout follows in 2027.
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Revolut is blocking GrapheneOS users from logging in. GrapheneOS says Revolut blocks phones with a locked bootloader signed by a non-Google key, but still allows phones with the bootloader fully unlocked. The unlocked state is less secure. Revolut hasn't responded.
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Revolut recently banned using GrapheneOS without any justification. They're falsely claiming to do be doing it for security reasons. In reality, they're enforcing licensing Google Play. Revolut doesn't enforce security standards. It runs on Android 9 with no patches since 2018.
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