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A Court Banned a Man From ChatGPT. No One Asked if That’s Constitutional.
A California judge just decided who gets to use ChatGPT, and the person banned from it wasn’t even in the courtroom.
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How Your Weather App Became a Surveillance Machine — And How to Escape It
The forecast is free, but you’ve been paying for it with every place you’ve ever visited.
The Verdict Against Meta and Google That Could End the Anonymous Internet
If the design-as-defect argument survives appeal, more than 1,600 similar cases waiting in courts across the country inherit a ready-made blueprint for killing anonymous speech.
California Law Forces Age-Tracking Into Every Operating System by 2027
In a different timeline, wiring an age-surveillance layer into the boot sequence of every computing device in California is an idea that would have died in committee.
Newsom Backs Teen Social Media Ban After Daughter’s Birthday Party Phone Moment
The governor who couldn’t bring himself to say “put the phones down” at his own daughter’s party is now asking the state to say it for every family in California.
Zuckerberg’s “Fix” for Child Safety Could End Anonymous Internet Access for Everyone
Zuckerberg spent five hours defending Instagram’s design choices, and walked out having handed legislators and regulators their preferred blueprint for a national digital ID system.
California Wants Gun Blueprints Treated Like Weapons
California is betting that code and blueprints can be treated as contraband by not calling it speech.
House Report: EU Pushed Tech Giants to Police US Speech
Europe’s regulators used its leverage to make Silicon Valley enforce their speech rules worldwide.
Landmark LA Trial Targets Social Media Addiction Claims
A Los Angeles jury is about to decide whether social media design itself can be treated as a defective product in the eyes of American law.
Gavin Newsom Says He’s Investigating TikTok Over Alleged Censorship of Anti-Trump and “Epstein” Content
It has been a bad week for TikTok, as technical excuses wear thin against a pattern of silence that, to some users, looks anything but random.
Porn Giant Calls for Device-Based Digital ID
The promise of privacy hides a blueprint for deeper platform control.
Judge Ends Sacramento Utility’s Decade-Long Police Data Sharing
The ruling exposes how a utility’s quiet cooperation with police turned ordinary energy use into evidence of suspicion.
