Andy Burnham, soon to be Britain’s next Prime Minister, hasn’t even stepped foot in Downing Street. Yet his team is already committed to carrying on Starmer’s plan: carding EVERY adult in the country to “protect kids online.” They’re keeping the full "age-verification" scheme running, now expanding into games, AI chatbots, livestreams, and coming for your VPN.

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Burnham Backs UK Social Media Ban and VPN Age Checks

Continuity, it turns out, means keeping the scheme that ends anonymous internet in Britain.

California just advanced a bill that would put scanning software inside every 3D printer sold in the state. It watches what you print at home and blocks anything an algorithm thinks looks like a gun part. Your machine would answer to the state, not to you.

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California Wants a Watcher Inside Every 3D Printer

California decided your printer should treat you like a suspect.

From July 7 a driver-facing camera comes standard in new EU cars, and you pay for it in the sticker price. Switzerland and others will follow. The watched car is about to become the only car you can buy.

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EU Mandates Driver-Facing Cameras in New Cars From Today

Surveillance just became a factory-fitted option you can't decline.

Apple Hide My Email Vulnerability Exposes Real Email Addresses

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Apple Hide My Email Vulnerability Exposes Real Email Addresses

The feature you pay Apple to keep your address secret has been handing it out for more than a year, and the company keeps insisting it's almos...

A 35-page federal memo shows Canada's Industry Department weighed suing individual Canadians over what they post on Facebook, X and LinkedIn.

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Ottawa Memo Considered Suing Canadians Over Posts

A 35-page memo, most of it blacked out, and the part they left visible is the part that should worry you.

The EU Parliament rejected mass scanning of private messages in March. Yesterday, it approved an urgent procedure to revive the measure, setting up a decisive vote on Thursday, the last sitting day before summer recess. At second reading, the text passes automatically unless 361 MEPs vote against it, and some MEPs have already left for the Summer break...

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EU Parliament Revives Chat Surveillance for Thursday Vote

Killing the regime needs an absolute majority and depends on who bothers to stay through the final sitting before the summer break.

Reddit has started forcing age checks on EU and Norway users. If their surveillance software thinks you might be under 18, you now hand a government ID or a live face scan to a third party before you can open a mature subreddit. Refuse, and those communities just disappear. Even some health support subreddits got tagged NSFW, which means you may have to show ID before you can read them.

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EU Reddit Users Must Verify Age With Government ID or Selfie

Child safety is the reason on the label. Look at what's actually in the box.

The UK Government just admitted its so-called independent Digital Identity watchdog will operate in total secrecy. No published minutes, costs hidden, members chosen in the dark. They are building a national identity system for every adult in Britain but people are not allowed to see how it's coming together. Oversight you cannot observe is not oversight.

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Britain's Digital ID Watchdog Will Do Its Watching in Secret

The advisory group will help decide what data gets collected, how long it's kept, and who can reach in and take it.

Amazon finally gave an excuse about why its new Fire Sticks block sideloading, and the reason is malware. The company that packs your home screen with tracking ads is now blocking the tools you would use to remove them. Vega OS giveth nothing and taketh plenty.

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The Malware Excuse Behind Amazon's Locked-Down Fire Sticks

The company that floods your home screen with tracking ads now blocks the apps built to hide them, all in the name of your safety.

Australia's eSafety Commissioner just asked a royal commission for the power to order platforms to protect certain accounts and suspend everyone who piles on against them. She wants it to work across every platform. "Ratioing" someone could become a bannable offense.

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Australia's Top Censor Wants Power Over The "Ratio"

Australia eSafety Commissioner wants notification power to punish online pile-ons as X Corp keeps winning in court.

Two Met Police officers walked into a Chiswick pub, pulled a man away from his drink, and warned him about his tweets. They admitted on camera he had broken no law. This is what Britain is like now.

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UK Police Warn Man Over Pub Tweets

Two officers, one pint, and a politician's hurt feelings walk into a Chiswick pub. Nobody breaks a law, and somehow that is the scary part.

Sony is killing physical discs for all new PlayStation games starting January 2028. From now on, every fresh release will be digital only. That means no more owning a real copy you can lend, resell, or keep on your shelf for years. You’re just renting a license tied to Sony’s account and servers. They can take it away anytime. Just look at the 551 movies (including Terminator 2, Total Recall, and Apocalypse Now) they’re deleting from people’s libraries this September with zero refunds. The “Buy” button is a lie.

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Sony Kills the PlayStation Disc

Sony just decided that "owning" a PlayStation game is a privilege it can revoke.

Australia's teen social media ban is a total failure. 85% of 12-15 year olds still online after 3 months. Kids beat it with drawn mustaches and borrowed accounts. Guess the govt's genius fix? Double the fines and expand face-scanning surveillance. They're not protecting kids. They're building a biometric police state. And the rest of the world is, unfortunately, taking notes.

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Australia Doubles Social Media Ban Fines

The fines just doubled for a law that eighty-five percent of Australian teenagers already ignore.

Democrats have chosen the global digital ID agenda as a keystone of their 2028 campaign. Project 2029’s “Kids Over Clicks” plan: ban under-16s, force age verification, gut Section 230. It's all sold as child protection. The reality is: passports, face scans, and government ID wallets just to post online. Australia, UK, EU, UAE, and Saudi Arabia are embracing it. It kills anonymous speech for everyone.

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Democrats Pick Up the Global Digital ID Agenda in Project 2029

A bid to end online anonymity under the premise of child safety.

Sony is deleting 551 movies you paid for from PS libraries on Sept 1. Terminator 2, Total Recall, Rambo, and more. No refunds. You hit BUY. Now they're gone. This is fake ownership. GTA 6 "physical" is the same scam: $80 for a download code, no disc, no resale. You don't own a "digital" purchase.

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Sony Deletes 551 StudioCanal Movies PlayStation Owners Paid For

Ownership is slowly moving onto servers a few companies control, and the storefront hasn't admitted it yet.

The House just passed the KIDS Act (267-117): a Trojan horse sneaking federal online ID checks into "kids safety" bills. Platforms must "know or should have known" if you're a minor or face liability. That forces age verification, ID checks, and tracking for everyone. Meanwhile, the Senate version of KOSA keeps the dangerous "duty of care" provision that would force platforms to censor broad categories of protected speech to avoid liability. There's a huge rift: Senate authors called the House bill dead on arrival. Neither chamber protects freedom...one pushes ID checks, the other pushes algorithmic control. Gridlock between two evils is currently the only thing stopping a full assault on online anonymity and speech.

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The House Just Voted for KOSA, a Privacy and Free Speech Disaster

The Senate is the next stop closer to an identity-gated internet becoming the law of the land.

MASSIVE 6-3 SCOTUS WIN for privacy Geofence warrants are DEAD. Police can no longer throw a digital dragnet around a crime scene and vacuum up EVERY phone location in the area. The 4th Amendment applies - your movements aren’t open season just because you carried a phone.

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Supreme Court Rules 6-3 That Geofence Warrants Trigger Fourth Amendment Protections

Carrying a phone through the wrong neighborhood no longer counts as consent to a government search.

Canada’s Bill C-8, Explained, and What It Means for Your Privacy

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Canada's Bill C-8 Explained

One signature now lets the government collect your location, your browsing history, and your metadata without ever asking a judge.

EU governments lost the fight over mass surveillance of private chats and now they want a rematch on their own terms. Ambassadors pushed Friday to revive temporary scanning of WhatsApp, Messenger, and more for "CSAM." This is after Parliament voted it down 311 against in March and the legal basis already expired. The Council wants to override Parliament and scan 450 million people's messages, treating everyone as suspects. Error rates hit 13-50%. This clears the path for next week's big "Chat Control" push into end-to-end encryption.

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Brussels Could Reopen the Fight to Scan Your Private Chats

Lawmakers killed this in March but Brussels is back four months later asking for a do-over.

Brazil just hired American lawyers to defend its censor-in-chief in a Florida courtroom. Supreme Court Justice Alexandre de Moraes ordered Rumble to block even people in America, including a person granted US asylum, then fined them $9k/day and banned the platform when they refused. Now Brazil claims "sovereign immunity" means a foreign judge can reach into America, delete First Amendment-protected speech, demand user data, and face zero consequences.

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Brazil Enters Rumble Case to Defend Pro-Censorship Judge

Brazil's argument is that the judge's orders are shielded by immunity even if they broke the law.