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Britain has developed a very specific institutional reflex. When its agencies fail catastrophically, the state responds by expanding surveillance of the general population. When the public expresses anger about those failures, the state responds by censoring the expression of that anger. UK Southport Inquiry Pushes Mass Surveillance and VPN Restrictions

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UK Southport Inquiry Pushes Mass Surveillance and VPN Restrictions

Every agency involved had the information to stop the Southport attacker, and the inquiry's answer is to track what the entire country browses...

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Singapore gamers are being locked out of games they already own unless they hand Microsoft a face scan, a passport, or their national ID. Google went further: its "age estimation" watches your YouTube habits and search history to guess how old you are. They call it child safety. The result is a biometric toll booth between you and your own library.

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Xbox Now Wants Your Face to Let You Play Games You Already Own in Singapore

Microsoft wants your face, your passport, or your national ID, just to keep playing the games sitting on your account.

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Massachusetts House Passes Social Media Age Verification Digital ID Bill

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Massachusetts Social Media Age Verification Bill

Every adult in Massachusetts would have to hand their ID to a tech company just to keep scrolling.

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Reno Police Sued After Wrongful Arrest Based on Facial Recognition Errors

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Reno Police Sued After Wrongful Arrest Based on Facial Recognition Errors

The officer who arrested him later admitted under oath it never should have happened, and that doing it this way was department policy.

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Secret Grand Jury Convened to Unmask Anonymous Government Critic on Reddit

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Secret Grand Jury Convened to Unmask Anonymous Government Critic on Reddit

The government lost its case in open court, so it moved the whole thing behind closed doors.

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xAI Sues Colorado to Block AI Speech Regulation on First Amendment Grounds

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xAI Sues Colorado to Block AI Speech Regulation on First Amendment Grounds

AI's lawsuit against Colorado doubles as the first major courtroom test of whether the government can tell an AI what opinions to have.

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How UK Regulator Ofcom Quietly Bypassed International Law to Police American Speech

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How UK Regulator Ofcom Quietly Bypassed International Law to Police American Speech

A British regulator bypassed every formal legal treaty and just emailed American companies into compliance, and 98% of them apparently obliged.

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Alberta Bill Would Fine Political Deepfakes $10,000 Without Satire Exemptions

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Alberta Bill Would Fine Political Deepfakes $10,000 Without Satire Exemptions

The bill makes no distinction between a fake video designed to suppress votes and a satirical meme poking fun at the premier.

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Brazil’s Justice Moraes Ordered Global Takedowns of American Users’ Speech, House Report Reveals

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Brazil's Justice Moraes Ordered Global Takedowns of American Users' Speech, House Report Reveals

A Brazilian judge has been ordering American tech companies to delete American speech for five years, and a new congressional report finally shows ...

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UK Foreign Affairs Committee Calls for Government Agency to Police Online “Disinformation”

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UK Foreign Affairs Committee Calls for Government Agency to Police Online "Disinformation"

A parliamentary committee just proposed giving a GCHQ-adjacent agency the power to decide which speech counts as a national security threat.

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OkCupid Gave 3M Users’ Photos to AI Firm, FTC Says

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OkCupid Gave 3M Users' Photos to AI Firm, FTC Says

The regulatory price for handing three million people's dating photos to a facial recognition startup turned out to be a promise to behave.

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US & EU Negotiate Biometric Data-Sharing Deal

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US & EU Negotiate Biometric Data-Sharing Deal

A European whose fingerprints end up in a US enforcement database by mistake would have to fix it through American courts.

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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.