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The world’s largest advertising company also writes the rules governing what ad blockers can do inside its browser.
A 419-to-19 vote united Poland’s bitterest political enemies behind a law broad enough to criminalize a protest video.
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The same governments selling you a sovereign office suite are the ones legislating their way past the encryption it would run on.
The government spent years defending a market that sells anyone’s location to anyone with money and the bill just came due in a war zone.
Running it yourself means a price you set, a door only you hold the key to, and infrastructure that answers to no one but you.
End-to-end encrypted, with asterisks nobody reads.
The DOJ’s legal theory is that clicking “I Agree” on a standard app privacy policy means you volunteered to be identified by the federal government.
Somewhere between the biometric lunch lines and the 24/7 monitoring software, American education became a data hoarding operation with a teaching problem.
Google asked permission to gate the open web in 2023, got rejected, and just shipped the same thing as a product update nobody voted on.
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The administration warning Britain that ID checks chill speech already has states demanding the passport scan at home.
Canada becomes the latest country to try to end online anonymity under the banner of protecting children.
The regulator wants platforms graded on how much they delete rather than how carefully they decide what stays.
A direct hotline between police and platform moderation desks is just a state-to-delete pipeline without the paperwork or a court order.
The company never had to break WhatsApp’s encryption, only to get someone to tap a link.
Silicon Valley gets the regulatory shield it’s been lobbying for and all it costs is the end of the anonymous internet.
The officers had a timestamp that ruled him out, a missing gun, and the wrong hoodie color, but the algorithm’s answer outranked all of it.
It is sold as a child-lock and built as a search warrant for every phone in the country.
Britain’s quiet encryption powers may now reach the phones of Americans who never agreed to them.
The fix Tokyo prefers would link the phone account in your legal name to everything you read, post, and scroll past.
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