Cindy Harper
Cindy Harper blogs mostly about social media censorship and culture stories. [email protected]
UK’s New Pandemic Plan Would Turn Big Tech Into a Mass Location Tracking Network
UK’s £1B pandemic strategy proposes UKHSA contact tracing system using big tech location data, targeting 2030 deployment.
Apple UK Age Verification Chaos: Users Face Failed Scans, Rejected Passports, and Forced Content Filters
A 67-year-old retired teacher who’s owned Apple products since 2009 now has her web browsing filtered because she pays for everything with a debit card.
FTC Warns Visa, Mastercard, PayPal, Stripe Over Political Debanking
The FTC just told the four companies that move America’s money to stop picking sides, without actually doing anything about it yet.
Ohio’s Second Attempt at Adult Website Age ID Verification Advances
The state has spent years closing every legal loophole standing between Ohio and a world where adults must show ID to use the internet.
Russia Deploys Internet Whitelist in Moscow, Blocking Foreign Sites
Moscow is the fifty-eighth region to lose access to foreign news, and St. Petersburg is next.
EU Proposal Links European Business Registration to Digital ID Wallets
The EU calls it a business registration tool, but the architecture looks less like a filing system and more like a foundation for something bigger.
Cloudflare Appeals €14 Million AGCOM Fine, Challenges Italy’s Piracy Shield as Illegal Censorship System
Blocking a Ukrainian education portal and killing Google Drive for 12 hours is what happens when private media companies get to shut down the internet with no court, no notice, and no appeal.
Britain’s Business Registry Left Director Data Wide Open — Yet the Government Is Still Building a National Digital ID
The system that just leaked directors’ home addresses through a back button is also the one the UK government plans to store biometric data in.
Microsoft Copilot Health Centralizes Personal Medical Records
Microsoft built a product that knows your cholesterol levels, your step count, and your last hospital visit and faces none of the legal consequences your doctor would for mishandling any of it.
Qatar Arrests 313 Over Iran Missile Attack Videos
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.
UK Government’s Digital ID System Could Grant Police Access to Facial Recognition Database
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.
UK Lords Back Facial Recognition Overreach, Protest Crackdown Powers
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.