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Meta To Comply With Florida Age Verification Digital ID Law

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Meta To Comply With Florida Age Verification Digital ID Law

The state that wants to protect children online first needs every adult in Florida to hand over their ID.

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Apple Removes Bitchat from China App Store at Cyberspace Administration Order

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Apple Removes Bitchat from China App Store at Cyberspace Administration Order

The app that needs no internet, no servers, and no user accounts turned out to be exactly the kind of thing Beijing can't let exist.

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Kiwi Farms Challenges DMCA Subpoenas as Tools to Unmask Anonymous Speech

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Kiwi Farms Challenges DMCA Subpoenas as Tools to Unmask Anonymous Speech

Courts and civil liberties groups have spent years warning that the DMCA's subpoena process is a censorship shortcut disguised as copyright en...

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Illinois Police Fight Bill to Ban Facial Recognition Use

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Illinois Police Fight Bill to Ban Facial Recognition Use

One state legislator wants to shut down Illinois's largest facial recognition database, and 227 police organizations showed up to say no.

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Mexico Speeds Up Biometric ID Rollout

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Mexico Speeds Up Biometric ID Rollout

The Mexican government's last two attempts at phone-linked identity databases ended in a massive data leak and a Supreme Court ruling that the...

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Apple Removes Private VPN Apps From Russia App Store

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Apple Removes Private VPN Apps From Russia App Store

Apple keeps helping the Kremlin shrink the internet one app removal at a time.

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Apple Expands Age Verification to Singapore & South Korea

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Apple Expands Age Verification to Singapore & South Korea

Apple now requires adults in Singapore and South Korea to hand over government IDs or financial credentials just to download apps they've been...

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Britain’s Free Speech Crisis and the Bill That Would Fix It

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Britain's Free Speech Crisis and the Bill That Would Fix It

After centuries of prosecuting people for what they say, Britain may be closer than it has ever been to making free speech an actual legal right.

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WHO Pushes Digital Health Wallet Rollout

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WHO Pushes Digital Health Wallet Rollout

A regional digitization push places millions of health records inside a system shaped by pandemic-era control mechanisms.

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US State Dept Settles Free Speech Suppression Lawsuit

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US State Dept Settles Free Speech Suppression Lawsuit

A federal agency spent taxpayer money telling Americans which news outlets to trust, and it took three years of litigation to make it stop.

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The Free Speech Act: A Demolition Plan For Britain’s Speech Laws

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The Free Speech Act: A Demolition Plan For Britain's Speech Laws

A blueprint for a nation starving for a taste of freedom.

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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...

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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.

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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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Trump Backs FISA Section 702 Extension, Drops Privacy Reform

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Trump Backs FISA Section 702 Extension, Drops Privacy Reform Push

Every two years, Congress gets a chance to add a warrant requirement to Section 702, and every two years, it finds a reason not to.