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]
EU Push to Make Message Scanning Permanent Despite Evidence of Failure and Privacy Risks
A policy designed to test its own limits now pretends those limits don’t exist.
MembersThe Next Surveillance Boom Is Taking Flight
The sky is becoming the newest jurisdiction, where algorithms write the rules faster than lawmakers can read them.
MembersHow to Say No: Everyday Tactics to Take Back Your Privacy
Every quiet refusal chips away at the illusion that surveillance is inevitable, reminding the system that consent is not compliance.
The GRANITE ACT: Wyoming Bill Targets Foreign Censors With $10M Penalties
Wyoming’s GRANITE Act flips the script, letting Americans hit back at foreign censors on their own turf.
Lindsey Graham Falls Prey to the Surveillance Monster He Championed
The senator who spent years defending government surveillance just found out what it feels like to be the one under the lens.
Germany Turns an X Post Into a Police Raid at Dawn
A single post lost in the noise of X becomes a case study in how modern states turn minor speech into major control.
MembersWhen the Watchers Get Watched: How One Public Records Request Shook the Surveillance Machine
Across the United States, towns are discovering that the real power in surveillance isn’t in the cameras but in the communities now demanding they come down.
EU’s “Democracy Shield” Centralizes Control Over Online Speech
Presented as a defense of democracy, the plan reads more like the architecture of a managed reality.
MembersThe Biometric Payment Revolution You Never Agreed To
It starts with a quicker checkout and ends with your body turned into corporate infrastructure.
UK Crime Agency Backs “Upload Prevention” Plan to Scan Encrypted Messages
The campaign recasts surveillance as safety, turning encryption from a shield of freedom into a checkpoint of trust.
MembersVPNs Keep the Lights On in a Darkening Web
VPNs have become the last untrimmed edges of an internet now landscaped for control, the hidden paths through a garden that was once a wilderness.
Wisconsin Lawmakers Propose VPN Ban and ID Checks on Adult Sites
The bill treats privacy like a loophole, not a right, reshaping the internet into a government ID checkpoint.