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UK’s New Pandemic Plan Would Turn Big Tech Into a Mass Location Tracking Network

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UK £1B Pandemic Plan Builds Big Tech Tracking System

UK's £1B pandemic strategy proposes UKHSA contact tracing system using big tech location data, targeting 2030 deployment.

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Starmer Pushes Fast-Track Online Censorship Powers

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Starmer Pushes Fast-Track Online Censorship Powers

The British Prime Minister sketches a future where online speech rules update as routinely as tax bracket, with scrutiny treated as an obstacle rat...

reclaimthenet 2 months ago

Hong Kong Criminalizes Refusal to Unlock Phones for Police

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Hong Kong Criminalizes Refusal to Unlock Phones for Police

The government says no new powers were added, which is a bold way to describe inventing a crime that didn't exist last week.

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FTC Warns Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, Stripe Over Political Debanking

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FTC Warns Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, Stripe Over Political Debanking

The FTC just told the four companies that move America's money to stop picking sides, without actually doing anything about it yet.

reclaimthenet 2 months ago

Apple UK Age Verification Chaos: Users Face Failed Scans, Rejected Passports, and Forced Content Filters

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Apple UK Age Verification Chaos: Users Face Failed Scans, Rejected Passports, and Forced Content Filters

A 67-year-old retired teacher who's owned Apple products since 2009 now has her web browsing filtered because she pays for everything with a d...

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Supreme Court Blocks Music Industry’s Push to Cut Millions Off the Internet Over Piracy Claims

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Supreme Court Blocks Music Industry's Push to Cut Millions Off the Internet Over Piracy Claims

Supreme Court unanimously rules Cox Communications not liable for subscriber piracy in Sony Music Entertainment case.

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The politicians want to make it look like they're fighting Big Tech. But lobbying disclosures reveal Big Tech is paying for the fight. It's the political equivalent of a boxing match where both fighters split the purse, only the prize is a national identity database sold as child safety.

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The Age Verification Con

How Big Tech and politicians built a digital ID system for everyone while pretending to fight each other.

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SCOTUS Rejects Citizen Journalist’s Case Against Officials Who Arrested Her for Asking Police Questions

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SCOTUS Rejects Citizen Journalist's Case Against Officials Who Arrested Her for Asking Police Questions

The Supreme Court's silence left standing a legal framework where asking a government official a question can land a journalist in handcuffs, ...

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Missouri v. Biden Consent Decree: US Government Admits Pressuring Social Media Platforms to Censor Protected Speech

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Missouri v. Biden Consent Decree: US Government Admits Pressuring Social Media Platforms to Censor Protected Speech

The administration that inherited the lawsuit just signed away its predecessor's censorship playbook in a binding legal document.

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The Verdict Against Meta and Google That Could End the Anonymous Internet

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The Verdict Against Meta and Google That Could End the Anonymous Internet

If the design-as-defect argument survives appeal, more than 1,600 similar cases waiting in courts across the country inherit a ready-made blueprint...

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Apple Forces UK iPhone Age Checks in iOS 26.4

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Apple Forces UK iPhone Age Checks in iOS 26.4

Every iPhone in Britain is now a checkpoint, and the price of entry for many is their ID or credit card.

reclaimthenet 2 months ago

FC Barcelona Fined for Privacy Violations Over Biometric Data Collection

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FC Barcelona Fined for Privacy Violations Over Biometric Data Collection

The Barcelona fine is a speed bump on a highway where banks, stadiums, and retailers are all quietly building permanent records of your face.

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Angela Lipps Spent 108 Days in Jail Because a Facial Recognition Algorithm Was Wrong

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Angela Lipps Spent 108 Days in Jail Because a Facial Recognition Algorithm Was Wrong

The software was wrong, but Angela Lipps still had to spend 108 days in a Tennessee jail proving it.

reclaimthenet 3 months ago

White House AI Framework Pushes Age Verification ID Mandate

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White House AI Framework Pushes Age Verification ID Mandate

Calling age verification requirements "privacy protective," is a bit like calling a honeypot "security infrastructure."

reclaimthenet 3 months ago

Sweden Breach Shows the Security Risks of National Digital ID Systems

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Sweden Breach Shows the Security Risks of National Digital ID Systems

Sweden built the world's most seamless digital identity system, and someone just walked off with the blueprints.

reclaimthenet 3 months ago

FBI Resumes Buying Americans’ Location Data Without Warrants

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FBI Resumes Buying Americans' Location Data Without Warrants

The law stops the government from taking your location data, it says nothing about buying it.

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Cloudflare Appeals €14 Million AGCOM Fine, Challenges Italy’s Piracy Shield as Illegal Censorship System

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Cloudflare Fights Italy's Piracy Shield Censorship

Blocking a Ukrainian education portal and killing Google Drive for 12 hours is what happens when private media companies get to shut down the inter...

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UK Regulator Ofcom Has Fined 4chan £520,000 Under a Law That Doesn’t Apply in the US

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Ofcom Has Fined 4chan £520,000 Under a Law That Doesn't Apply in the US

The regulator issued a £520,000 fine; the lawyer replied with a picture of a hamster.

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Spain Fines ID Tool Yoti for Privacy Violations in Biometric ID App

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Spain Fines ID Tool Yoti for Privacy Violations in Biometric ID App

The six-month deadline to fix the consent screens and retention logs is the least interesting part of a ruling that quietly confirms governments ar...

reclaimthenet 3 months ago

Brazil Launches Mandatory Age Verification Law for Online Platforms

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Brazil Launches Mandatory Age Verification Law for Online Platforms

Brazil built a national age verification system, called it child protection, and buried the surveillance infrastructure in the footnotes.