Author: Christina Maas
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The Memory Hole Above Beijing
The tools that erased a Beijing skyscraper crash are already moving through the West’s safety laws under warmer names.
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Democrats Pick Up the Global Digital ID Agenda in Project 2029
A bid to end online anonymity under the premise of child safety.
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Larry Sanger Said Wikipedia Punishes Dissent. Then It Banned Him.
He co-founded the encyclopedia in 2001 and now he can’t edit a single page of it.
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Why Meta Suddenly Loves the Kids Online Safety Act
The reversal landed the moment the Senate paired the bill with the digital-ID mandate Meta has chased for years.
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How to Fly Without Feeding the Surveillance Machine
The gap between “mandatory for travel” and “harvested because nobody stopped it” is bigger than any airline wants you to…
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Canada’s Bill C-34 Would Require ID or Face Scan to Use Social Media
Canada becomes the latest country to try to end online anonymity under the banner of protecting children.
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Your Town for $300M: Surveillance State, On Sale
Buried beneath the law-and-order slogans is a procurement list that doubles as the blueprint for permanent surveillance.
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When an App Download Turns Into a Government Record
The DOJ’s legal theory is that clicking “I Agree” on a standard app privacy policy means you volunteered to be…
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Merkel Urges EU to Keep Regulating Social Media Speech
The architect of Germany’s original internet censorship law now wants the whole continent to stop worrying and learn to love…
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The School Spy Boom Nobody Asked For
Somewhere between the biometric lunch lines and the 24/7 monitoring software, American education became a data hoarding operation with a…
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Amazon Tried to Hide a Book and Made It Famous Instead
The lesson Amazon keeps relearning is that nothing sells a novel quite like declaring it unsellable.
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Canada’s Carney Revives Online Censorship Bill
The bill that died with Trudeau’s election call is back, and so is the advisory panel that wrote it.