The Web Is Splitting Into Approved and Unapproved Humans
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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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.
The people who spent years building blacklists to silence others are now shocked to find themselves on one.
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The government is building glasses that turn a glance into a federal database query and the deployment date is already set.
It’s a surprisingly coherent product, but whether you actually need it depends entirely on which kind of privacy user you are.
Twenty years of privacy advice gets a stress test against the booking infrastructure built to turn your hesitation into a higher fare.
The justices seem ready to decide that mass surveillance is fine if you could have turned it off.
The lesson Amazon keeps relearning is that nothing sells a novel quite like declaring it unsellable.
The opt-out button you’ve been clicking is decorative, so here is the browser build that stops asking nicely.
Self-preservation looks a lot like surrender from the outside.
The open source ebook ecosystem now has a genuine answer for every piece of Amazon’s walled garden, if you care enough to look into it.
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The country that once exported its parenting model to the world now wants to put ankle monitors on 13-year-olds who haven’t been charged with a crime.
Pennsylvania’s governor is using one rogue chatbot to justify putting a digital checkpoint in front of every AI conversation in the state.
The agency tasked with protecting Europe’s data built a secret two-petabyte surveillance machine that its own privacy officer couldn’t account for.
The US government is using a 96-year-old customs fraud statute to hunt down a Canadian over tweets.
The company that could most credibly challenge Britain’s online speech regime is instead asking a London court to please use a different revenue column.
The company that decides whether you’re a bot now also requires you run its software to prove otherwise.
The investigation started with an algorithm complaint from a Macron ally and now includes charges ranging from Holocaust denial to child exploitation.
The Commission now employs 127 people to police online speech and is hiring 60 more, all without a single courtroom in the loop.
The FCC just proposed fixing your robocall problem by building the kind of phone-user registry that privacy advocates have spent decades trying to prevent.
France’s parliament just endorsed the one idea every cryptographer on earth has already debunked and they’re calling it a compromise.
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