UK Wants Message Scanning on Phones, Jail CEOs Who Refuse
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UK Wants Message Scanning on Phones, Jail CEOs Who Refuse
Refusing to install state spyware would put tech executives in prison for five years.
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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.
Seattle Children’s Hospital Spied on Searches, Parents Tell WA Court
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Seattle Children's Hospital Spied on Searches, Parents Tell WA Court
A snippet of code sat quietly on the hospital's site and mailed every parent's search straight to Facebook.
“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.
EU-Backed Appeals Center Accidentally Confirms the DSA Censorship Regime Is Unworkable
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EU-Backed Appeals Center Accidentally Confirms the DSA Censorship Regime Is Unworkable
The body Brussels built to make its censorship regime work just published the numbers proving it can't.
Samsung Throws Its Support Behind Digital ID
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Samsung Throws Its Support Behind Digital ID
Samsung is the last of the big three to ask for your face, which is exactly how a demand becomes a default.
Minnesota Law Requires Platforms to Monitor and Age-Estimate All Users
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Minnesota Law Requires Platforms to Monitor and Age-Estimate All Users
Minnesota just mandated that platforms spy on every user to figure out which ones are kids.
DuckDuckGo’s US app installs surged 30.5% week-over-week after Google’s I/O move to replace traditional search with AI.
Google now decides more what you see, how you see it, and whether any original source gets traffic at all.
A growing number of users are making the switch...
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DuckDuckGo Installs Surge 30.5% After Google AI Search Overhaul
The numbers are small but for the first time the friction of switching looks cheaper to users than the cost of staying.
5th Circuit Lets Texas Enforce App Store Age Checks
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5th Circuit Lets Texas Enforce App Store Age Checks
Texas drew its age line at the app store door and everyone has to show ID to get through it.
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.