A bill to regulate Big Tech has been approved by the Cabinet in Japan.

"Bill on the Promotion of Competition Regarding Specific Software Used on Smartphones" (Smartphone Software Competition Promotion Bill)

Announcement materials by the Japan Fair Trade Commission: www.jftc.go.jp/houdou/press...

Amendment to the regulation for the Japan Digital Agency's "Digital Auth App" scheduled for release in April:

This implies that the govt. will have the ability to track all usage history of services using the "Digital Auth App" at an individual level.

public-comment.e-gov.go.jp/servlet/Publ...

Visualized materials that summarize the EUDI in eIDAS in an easy-to-understand manner.

timspeelman.nl/eidas/EDI_Vi...

Open letter signed by 466 scientists and researchers from 36 countries, as well as numerous NGOs.

eidas-open-letter.org

EU digital ID reforms should be ‘actively resisted’, say experts

www.computerweekly.com/news/3665579...

EDPB Urgent Binding Decision on processing of personal data for behavioural advertising by Meta

edpb.europa.eu/news/news/20...

The most interesting part of the document was the section that stated, 'The rapid adoption of mobile driver's licenses (mDL) was due to state laws mandating age verification for viewing pornography, not for TSA security checks.'

EFF Statement of Opposition to the REAL ID Act Exemption for mDL (mobile driver's license)

www.eff.org/document/10-...

Preparing for the end of third-party cookies

developer.chrome.com/blog/cookie-...

The whitepaper for Human-Centric Digital Identity was published, with this final version co-branded by twelve non-profit organizations including MyData.

“Human-Centric Digital Identity: for Government Officials”

openid.net/human-centri...

Update: App Passwords no longer have access to your invite codes, to ensure that third-party tools cannot claim your invite codes without your awareness.

Please only login to third-party tools that you trust, and always use an App Password (a temporary solution until we implement OAuth). 🧵

“Third-party chats” screen has been added to the WhatsApp beta.
It seems that WhatsApp is getting ready to support DMA. But we do not yet know which services it will work with.

wabetainfo.com/whatsapp-bet...

Prof. Dr. Shigeya Suzuki, a member of the Trusted Web Promotion Council Task Force, will introduce the Trusted Web at the W3C TPAC event on 13 September 2023, 16:00–17:00 Central European Summer Time.

www.w3.org/events/meeti...

Microsoft warns that China uses AI to impersonate Americans and strategically sway U.S. voters on social media platforms to influence public opinion.

www.reuters.com/world/china-...

I wasn't aware that the Trusted Web was mentioned in the HAIP (OpenID4VC High Assurance Interoperability Profile with SD-JWT VC) draft document.

github.com/vcstuff/oid4...

Tesla is Rated Worst in Mozilla's Privacy Review.

“Tesla is only the second product we have ever reviewed to receive all of our privacy ‘dings.’”

foundation.mozilla.org/en/privacyno...

Gatekeepers under the DMA (Digital Markets Act) were published.

ec.europa.eu/commission/p...