Section 702 Surveillance Reaches Its Friday Deadline. Why “Going Dark” Is a Myth.
June 11, 2026
The same people warning of a blackout won’t trade renewal for a warrant requirement
The same people warning of a blackout won’t trade renewal for a warrant requirement
The administration warning Britain that ID checks chill speech already has states demanding the passport scan at home.
Canada becomes the latest country to try to end online anonymity under the banner of protecting children.
The company never had to break WhatsApp’s encryption, only to get someone to tap a link.
Silicon Valley gets the regulatory shield it’s been lobbying for and all it costs is the end of the anonymous internet.
The officers had a timestamp that ruled him out, a missing gun, and the wrong hoodie color, but the algorithm’s answer outranked all of it.
It is sold as a child-lock and built as a search warrant for every phone in the country.
Britain’s quiet encryption powers may now reach the phones of Americans who never agreed to them.
The fix Tokyo prefers would link the phone account in your legal name to everything you read, post, and scroll past.
Refusing to install state spyware would put tech executives in prison for five years.
The students found out their dorms held more than 330 cameras from their own newspaper, not the school that installed them.
Google is volunteering to broker your legal identity for every ordinary thing you do online.
Proving you are not a child means proving exactly who you are and that is the remedy Florida wants written into law.
Boston Dynamics built a surveillance platform that knows how to dance.
The £115 million pitch is speed but one of its early matches sent a software engineer to a cell for a burglary a hundred miles from home.
The protection this judge offered could vanish the moment every account carries a verified government ID.
A snippet of code sat quietly on the hospital’s site and mailed every parent’s search straight to Facebook.
Buried past the 76-to-0 vote is a clause letting the Attorney General widen who counts as a “covered platform’ without the Legislature voting again.
Samsung is the last of the big three to ask for your face, which is exactly how a demand becomes a default.
Texas drew its age line at the app store door and everyone has to show ID to get through it.
Minnesota just mandated that platforms spy on every user to figure out which ones are kids.
The justices let an addiction case proceed and buried inside it is the end of logging on as a stranger.
The numbers are small but for the first time the friction of switching looks cheaper to users than the cost of staying.
California fixed the most obvious problem with its age-tracking law but replaced it with a version that follows you across the entire internet.
The same people warning of a blackout won’t trade renewal for a warrant requirement
The administration warning Britain that ID checks chill speech already has states demanding the passport scan at home.
Canada becomes the latest country to try to end online anonymity under the banner of protecting children.
The company never had to break WhatsApp’s encryption, only to get someone to tap a link.
Silicon Valley gets the regulatory shield it’s been lobbying for and all it costs is the end of the anonymous internet.
The officers had a timestamp that ruled him out, a missing gun, and the wrong hoodie color, but the algorithm’s answer outranked all of it.
It is sold as a child-lock and built as a search warrant for every phone in the country.
Britain’s quiet encryption powers may now reach the phones of Americans who never agreed to them.
The fix Tokyo prefers would link the phone account in your legal name to everything you read, post, and scroll past.
Refusing to install state spyware would put tech executives in prison for five years.
The students found out their dorms held more than 330 cameras from their own newspaper, not the school that installed them.
Google is volunteering to broker your legal identity for every ordinary thing you do online.
Proving you are not a child means proving exactly who you are and that is the remedy Florida wants written into law.
Boston Dynamics built a surveillance platform that knows how to dance.
The £115 million pitch is speed but one of its early matches sent a software engineer to a cell for a burglary a hundred miles from home.
The protection this judge offered could vanish the moment every account carries a verified government ID.
A snippet of code sat quietly on the hospital’s site and mailed every parent’s search straight to Facebook.
Buried past the 76-to-0 vote is a clause letting the Attorney General widen who counts as a “covered platform’ without the Legislature voting again.
Samsung is the last of the big three to ask for your face, which is exactly how a demand becomes a default.
Texas drew its age line at the app store door and everyone has to show ID to get through it.
Minnesota just mandated that platforms spy on every user to figure out which ones are kids.
The justices let an addiction case proceed and buried inside it is the end of logging on as a stranger.
The numbers are small but for the first time the friction of switching looks cheaper to users than the cost of staying.
California fixed the most obvious problem with its age-tracking law but replaced it with a version that follows you across the entire internet.