United Kingdom
UK National Security (State Threats) Bill
Ministers can designate organizations as tools of foreign states and prosecute support for them. Rammed through the whole Parliament in 29 days.
UK NHS Modernisation Bill
Compels every NHS provider into a single lifetime health record per person, surfaced through the NHS App, the same app ecosystem the digital ID scheme wants to inhabit.
UK Representation of the People Bill
The elections bill drawing proposals for election speech controls: broadcast-style restrictions on social media, polling-day reporting bans, and platforms told to prioritize approved media.
UK Crime and Policing Act 2026
Turns 50 million driving licence photos into the largest real-name facial recognition database British police have ever had, usable against faces captured live at protests.
UK Children's Wellbeing and Schools Act 2026
The schools bill that became the vehicle for VPN bans and device scanning. Those fell out; the power for ministers to impose online restrictions by regulation survived.
UK Data (Use and Access) Act 2025
The law that built Britain's digital ID rails while everyone watched the data-reform headline: a state-run trust framework and register for identity providers, live since December.
UK Online Safety Act
The broadest attack on free speech and privacy any Western democracy has passed: age checks to use the internet, a state regulator over online speech, criminal penalties for posts, and a standby power to scan private messages.
UK Investigatory Powers Act 2016
The Snoopers' Charter: bulk interception, state hacking, a year of everyone's browsing history on file, and secret orders that can compel companies to break their own encryption.