Surveillance
New York S8102 (Device Age Checks)
Would push age verification down to the device, operating system, and app store, so a phone checks your age before its software works normally.
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.
EU Chat Control 1.0 (Scanning Derogation)
The 'temporary' law behind mass scanning of Europe's messages since 2021. A majority of voting MEPs tried to block its July revival and fell short of the absolute majority needed to do it, so suspicionless scanning is law again through April 2028.
Nebraska Parental Rights in Social Media Act (LB 383)
Nebraska's social media age-check law was blocked days before taking effect. The part that survived forces platforms to hand parents their kids' private messages.
Canada Bill C-22 (Lawful Access Act)
Canada's surveillance rebuild: providers ordered to install monitoring capability, encryption breakable on ministerial demand, and a year of everyone's metadata on file. Passed the Commons; the Senate is what remains.
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 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 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.
Cooper Davis and Devin Norring Act
Would make platforms report suspected drug activity in users' messages to the DEA, deputizing them as federal informants.
STOP CSAM Act
Would let platforms be sued for 'recklessly' hosting abuse material, which makes offering encryption itself the legal risk.
Fourth Amendment Is Not For Sale Act
A protective bill that would stop the government buying Americans' data from brokers to sidestep a warrant. Passed the House in 2024, died in the Senate.
Connecticut SB 3 (Online Privacy & Minors)
Adds child-safety and health-data rules to Connecticut's privacy law, with a vague harm-to-minors duty and account-deletion mandates the Attorney General enforces.
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.
EU Digital Services Act
The EU's speech-control framework: state-certified 'trusted flaggers' whose reports platforms must prioritize, systemic-risk duties over lawful content, and a crisis switch, backed by fines of 6 percent of global revenue.
Australia TOLA (Assistance and Access Act)
The first Western law built to compel tech companies to help break their own encryption: secret notices, criminal penalties for disclosure, and a 'systemic weakness' safeguard nobody can define.