Privacy
UK Met Police Chief Mark Rowley Hails Facial Recognition, Outlines Drone and AI Policing Plans
A face in the crowd is all it takes to be caught in the dragnet of a digital police state.
California Social Media Age Verification Rules Face No Constitutional Ruling Until Finalized, Ninth Circuit Says
The fight over SB 976 now moves from the courtroom to the attorney general’s rulebook.
Tor Project Releases Experimental Tor VPN Beta for Android with Per-App Routing and Privacy Tools
It’s a major step for Tor on mobile, even if the software is still rough around the edges.
Bluesky Implements Age Verification in South Dakota and Wyoming
Anonymous speech is being traded for compliance, one state law at a time.
MembersA Death, A Lawsuit, and Infinite Surveillance
The louder the calls to make AI safer, the more they sound like demands for police access and identity checks.
Mullvad Introduces QUIC-Based WireGuard Obfuscation to Bypass Censorship and VPN Blocks
Mullvad wraps WireGuard in QUIC to make VPN traffic blend in with normal internet traffic.
Cardiff Man Wrongly Accused of Theft After Facial Recognition Error Triggers Privacy Complaint
A shopping trip turned public shaming exposes the hidden dangers of algorithmic policing.
Von der Leyen Unveils New EU Censorship Push, Online Digital ID Plans, in 2025 State of the Union Speech
Von der Leyen casts online “misinformation” as a contagion, folding speech regulation into the language of safety.
Pakistan Data Breach Exposes Risks of Biometric Digital ID Systems
The government keeps collecting what it can’t protect.
Cybersecurity Experts Warn EU Against Chat Control 2.0 Regulation Ahead of Key Votes
More than 500 scientists denounce EU’s encrypted message scanning as “technically infeasible.”
Ex-WhatsApp Security Chief Sues Meta Over Alleged Data Failures, Retaliation, and FTC Violations
Meta’s former WhatsApp security chief says the company buried risks so deep that protecting users became an afterthought to protecting its image.
MembersUse The Website. Ditch The App.
It’s not the features they want you using, it’s the data you don’t know you’re giving.