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The forecast is free, but you’ve been paying for it with every place you’ve ever visited.
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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It’s the kind of question that should have been settled years ago, and the silence tells you why it wasn’t.
Government-built surveillance tools keep ending up in criminal hands, and the people who build them keep acting surprised.
The throwaway account you made years ago is sitting in a database, waiting for a system that costs less than a tank of gas to read it.
One developer has already registered their distribution under the law’s own definitions and declared intentional noncompliance on the front page.
The ad that followed you around the internet turns out to be the least invasive thing it was doing.
Attacks are usually from human error, not technology, which is why a five-minute audit is the most important thing you should be doing.
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The US DHS is building a surveillance system vast enough to identify anyone on any street and is doing so without a legal framework to govern when, why, or whether it should.
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The British government scraps non-crime hate incidents. The replacement system does everything the old one did, just with a fresher coat of bureaucratic paint.
Apple now requires adults in Singapore and South Korea to hand over government IDs or financial credentials just to download apps they’ve been buying freely for years.
A federal agency spent taxpayer money telling Americans which news outlets to trust, and it took three years of litigation to make it stop.
A blueprint for a nation starving for a taste of freedom.
Germany’s draft deepfake law under Justice Minister Stefanie Hubig could criminalize political memes with up to two years in prison.
The British Prime Minister sketches a future where online speech rules update as routinely as tax bracket, with scrutiny treated as an obstacle rather than a safeguard.
A regional digitization push places millions of health records inside a system shaped by pandemic-era control mechanisms.
UK’s £1B pandemic strategy proposes UKHSA contact tracing system using big tech location data, targeting 2030 deployment.
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 debit card.
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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