Starmer Calls for Spyware on All Phones

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Starmer Calls for Spyware on All Phones

It is sold as a child-lock and built as a search warrant for every phone in the country.

SDSU Wired Its Dorms with 1,300 AI Cameras Without Telling Students

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SDSU Wired Its Dorms with 1,300 AI Cameras Without Telling Students

The students found out their dorms held more than 330 cameras from their own newspaper, not the school that installed them.

Google Wallet is about to start holding your government ID in five EU countries this summer. The selling point is age verification. The part they skip over: an ad company now sees every time you prove who you are online.

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Google Wants to Be the ID Checkpoint for Europe's Internet

Google is volunteering to broker your legal identity for every ordinary thing you do online.

Florida vs. OpenAI: The Fight to ID Every ChatGPT User

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Florida vs. OpenAI: The Fight to ID Every ChatGPT User

Proving you are not a child means proving exactly who you are and that is the remedy Florida wants written into law.

Germany Fines Citizens a Month’s Wages for Insulting Chancellor Merz on Facebook

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Germany Fines Citizens a Month's Wages for Insulting Chancellor Merz on Facebook

The fine isn't really about the money, it's about teaching everyone else to never criticize power.

South Wales Police Log Non-Criminal Islam Criticism

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South Wales Police Log Non-Criminal Islam Criticism

The conduct is lawful, the speech is legal, and yet the paperwork still ends up in front of your next employer.

Dancing Spot Robots Will Surveil the 2026 World Cup

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Dancing Spot Robots Will Surveil the 2026 World Cup

Boston Dynamics built a surveillance platform that knows how to dance.

A federal appeals court just ruled the Coast Guard Auxiliary could expel a volunteer over his LinkedIn posts. The court didn't need proof his words actually harmed anything. A reasonable guess that they might was enough.

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Court Backs Coast Guard Auxiliary Firing Over LinkedIn Posts

The balancing test let the government win on a reasonable guess that harm might follow, with no proof any did.

“Dystopian” Police.AI Launches in UK Amid False Arrests

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"Dystopian" Police.AI Launches in UK Amid False Arrests

The £115 million pitch is speed but one of its early matches sent a software engineer to a cell for a burglary a hundred miles from home.

California’s New Age-Verification Bill Frees Linux But Expands Age Tracking to the Open Web

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California Wants an Age Tracker for the Whole Web

California fixed the most obvious problem with its age-tracking law but replaced it with a version that follows you across the entire internet.

Texas Sues Discord, Seeks Mandatory Age Verification

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Texas Sues Discord, Seeks Mandatory Age Verification

Texas is using a child safety lawsuit to try to end anonymous access to Discord entirely.

Big Tech just voluntarily handed UK speech regulator Ofcom preview access to new features before they launch. Facebook, Instagram, Roblox, Snap & YouTube all agreed. TikTok refused. Meta is now rolling out AI to scan Instagram DMs under the premise of detecting “sexualized conversations," right after quietly killing E2EE. This is how free speech and privacy die: companies willingly building the surveillance state for the regulator. All for “safety.”

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5 Tech Giants Let UK Speech Regulator Preview New Features

Five tech giants just agreed to show a government regulator their homework before turning it in, even though the law never said they had to.

South Carolina just passed a law requiring platforms to estimate your age every 100 hours of use, or any time they run their algorithms on you. 80% confidence minimum, $10k fine per wrong guess. The incentive is to collect more data about everyone, including kids.

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South Carolina's New Social Media Law Puts Every User Under Age Surveillance

A bill sold as child protection builds the legal framework for surveilling every user in the state.

Google's new reCAPTCHA requires Play Services running on your Android phone to prove you're human. If you're on s de-Googled setup, you may automatically fail. They built this dependency quietly for at least seven months. iPhones pass the same check without installing a thing. Google is punishing people who opted out of its surveillance.

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Google Broke reCAPTCHA for De-Googled Android Users

The company that decides whether you're a bot now also requires you run its software to prove otherwise.