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Uthmeier’s April 8 deadline gives platforms one month to build the identity surveillance infrastructure that Florida’s child-protection framing was designed to make you forget about.
313 people documented what a missile attack on their country looked like in real time, and their government’s response was to make that a crime.
The law successfully drove millions of Australians to VPNs and unregulated sites.
A system the government is describing as a digital convenience tool could, under legislation its own consultation proposed, become searchable by police without people’s knowledge or consent.
The DVLA was built to check whether people can drive, and the Lords just voted to turn it into the largest real-name face recognition database the police have ever had access to.
The bill’s child protection framing obscures what it actually creates: a legal architecture for government-controlled internet access that has no natural stopping point.
Another country is moving toward getting in line with the agenda.
A student who shared a pandemic video in a private chat walked away cleared, with a tribunal drawing a line that offended feelings and illegal discrimination are not the same thing.
Microsoft’s new “context preservation” keeps you from losing the thread of your conversation and keeps you inside Microsoft’s browser engine, whether you want to be there or not.
The episode handed British regulators the pretext they’d been waiting for to wire censorship directly into the software itself.
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