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California’s new bills would let state lawmakers define, by statute, exactly how agreeable a chatbot is allowed to be.
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Government-built surveillance tools keep ending up in criminal hands, and the people who build them keep acting surprised.
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One developer has already registered their distribution under the law’s own definitions and declared intentional noncompliance on the front page.
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The refusal puts American mutual-assistance treaties off the table for European speech prosecutions, and Paris is the first to find out.
The same KYC mandates designed to stop money laundering now supply the face scans that enable it.
The bill that died with Trudeau’s election call is back, and so is the advisory panel that wrote it.
Governments are racing to mandate digital ID systems that turn every citizen’s passport into another entry on the next breach notification.
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The same technology sold to hold police accountable now scans 7,000 faces a day without asking anyone’s permission.
Ten million users already trust Tuta with their email, and now the same quantum-resistant math covers everything they store.
The agencies literally quoted Fight Club rules to keep their $81 billion blacklist quiet.
The Commission built the app on the same architecture as its planned continental digital identity wallet. That’s not a coincidence.
The First Amendment was designed to prevent exactly this; a law that punishes speech before any court decides whether it was harmful.
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