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Mexico Speeds Up Biometric ID Rollout
Every Mexican with a cell phone has until July to hand over their fingerprints, iris scans, and facial data to a government whose last two attempts at phone registration ended in a data leak and a Supreme Court smackdown.
Illinois Police Fight Bill to Ban Facial Recognition Use
One state legislator wants to shut down Illinois’s largest facial recognition database, and 227 police organizations showed up to say no.
Apple Removes Private VPN Apps From Russia App Store
Apple keeps helping the Kremlin shrink the internet one app removal at a time.
Britain’s Great Speech Police Rebrand
The British government scraps non-crime hate incidents. The replacement system does everything the old one did, just with a fresher coat of bureaucratic paint.
Apple Expands Age Verification to Singapore & South Korea
Apple now requires adults in Singapore and South Korea to hand over government IDs or financial credentials just to download apps they’ve been buying freely for years.
US State Dept Settles Free Speech Suppression Lawsuit
A federal agency spent taxpayer money telling Americans which news outlets to trust, and it took three years of litigation to make it stop.
The Free Speech Act: A Demolition Plan For Britain’s Speech Laws
A blueprint for a nation starving for a taste of freedom.
MembersThe Fourth Amendment Has a VPN Problem
It’s the kind of question that should have been settled years ago, and the silence tells you why it wasn’t.
Germany Drafts Law Making AI Deepfake Memes a Crime
Germany’s draft deepfake law under Justice Minister Stefanie Hubig could criminalize political memes with up to two years in prison.
Starmer Pushes Fast-Track Online Censorship Powers
The British Prime Minister sketches a future where online speech rules update as routinely as tax bracket, with scrutiny treated as an obstacle rather than a safeguard.
WHO Pushes Digital Health Wallet Rollout
A regional digitization push places millions of health records inside a system shaped by pandemic-era control mechanisms.
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.