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Four American families are suing Meta, TikTok, Snap, and Google, alleging the platforms' addictive design contributed to the wrongful deaths of their children. The Social Media Victims Law Center brought the case, arguing these companies knowingly built products that cause serious harm, and that the human cost of engagement-driven algorithms is no longer abstract.
Meanwhile, a new report from Kaspersky is drawing attention to a threat most people never think about: parked domains and blank web pages. More than ninety percent of parked domains now redirect visitors to malicious destinations, and many placeholder pages are quietly fingerprinting your device in the background. Clearing your cookies won't help. Simply landing on what looks like nothing could be enough.
And on the question of government surveillance, critics are renewing pressure over the failure to reform FISA, the law that governs federal intelligence gathering. Without updated guardrails, civil liberties advocates warn that AI tools are now being used to monitor entire communities at a scale the original legislation never anticipated, and Congress has yet to act.
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