Christina Maas
Christina is a Reclaim contributor who's interested in platforms, their policies, and their ability to push social and cultural conditions. [email protected]
MembersYour 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.
MembersWhen 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 identified by the federal government.
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 the delete button.
MembersThe 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 teaching problem.
MembersAmazon 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.
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.
Mexico Speeds Up Biometric ID Rollout
Every Mexican with a cell phone has until July to hand over their fingerprints, iris scans, and facial data to a government whose last two attempts at phone registration ended in a data leak and a Supreme Court smackdown.
MembersThe Fourth Amendment Has a VPN Problem
It’s the kind of question that should have been settled years ago, and the silence tells you why it wasn’t.
MembersWhen Government Hacks Go Wandering
Government-built surveillance tools keep ending up in criminal hands, and the people who build them keep acting surprised.
Canada’s Public Safety Minister Defends Mass Surveillance Bill
The minister insists the bill targeting every Canadian’s location data, movement patterns, and daily routines isn’t a surveillance bill.
UK Regulator Ofcom Has Fined 4chan £520,000 Under a Law That Doesn’t Apply in the US
The regulator issued a £520,000 fine; the lawyer replied with a picture of a hamster.
MembersYour Phone’s Ads Are Spying for the Government. These Simple Changes Can Help
The ad that followed you around the internet turns out to be the least invasive thing it was doing.