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UK Regulator Ofcom Has Fined 4chan £520,000 Under a Law That Doesn’t Apply in the US
The regulator issued a £520,000 fine; the lawyer replied with a picture of a hamster.
MembersLinux Distros Are Mounting a Response to the Age Verification ID Laws Coming for Your OS
One developer has already registered their distribution under the law’s own definitions and declared intentional noncompliance on the front page.
Afroman Wins Defamation Lawsuit Brought by Adams County Sheriff’s Deputies Over Videos and Songs About 2022 Home Raid
A jury just ruled that making songs about what police did in your own home is exactly the kind of speech the First Amendment was built for.
FBI Resumes Buying Americans’ Location Data Without Warrants
The law stops the government from taking your location data, it says nothing about buying it.
Sweden Breach Shows the Security Risks of National Digital ID Systems
Sweden built the world’s most seamless digital identity system, and someone just walked off with the blueprints.
Brazil Launches Mandatory Age Verification Law for Online Platforms
Brazil built a national age verification system, called it child protection, and buried the surveillance infrastructure in the footnotes.
Cloudflare Appeals €14 Million AGCOM Fine, Challenges Italy’s Piracy Shield as Illegal Censorship System
Blocking a Ukrainian education portal and killing Google Drive for 12 hours is what happens when private media companies get to shut down the internet with no court, no notice, and no appeal.
Spain Fines ID Tool Yoti for Privacy Violations in Biometric ID App
The six-month deadline to fix the consent screens and retention logs is the least interesting part of a ruling that quietly confirms governments are mandating surveillance infrastructure they haven’t thought through.
The FISA Surveillance Tool Is Up for Renewal, and the SAVE Act Is Riding Shotgun
Modest but meaningful surveillance reforms, warrant requirements, parallel construction limits, may die on the vine if they stay hitched to a bill the Senate won’t pass.
MembersYour Phone’s Ads Are Spying for the Government. These Simple Changes Can Help
The ad that followed you around the internet turns out to be the least invasive thing it was doing.
Chat Control: EU Parliament Blocked One Form of Mass Surveillance, But Is Pushing for Another
Parliament won the battle over mass scanning, but the version of this law that actually passes could still harm encrypted communication forever.
Britain’s Business Registry Left Director Data Wide Open — Yet the Government Is Still Building a National Digital ID
The system that just leaked directors’ home addresses through a back button is also the one the UK government plans to store biometric data in.