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Every Bad Idea Australia Ever Had About the Internet, Now in One Bill
A law sold as upstream prevention could send age checks, scanning, and speech controls downstream.
Starmer Calls for Spyware on All Phones
It is sold as a child-lock and built as a search warrant for every phone in the country.
UK Wants Message Scanning on Phones, Jail CEOs Who Refuse
Refusing to install state spyware would put tech executives in prison for five years.
Jess Phillips Resigns, Pushes Phone Scanning Law in UK
A departing UK minister used her resignation letter to demand device-level photo scanning on every phone in the country.
UK Government Plans to Use Delegated Powers to Undermine Encryption and Expand Online Surveillance
Delegated powers mean the specific rules (what gets scanned, what gets flagged) get written by a minister, not Parliament.
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The Slow Murder of Private Communication
Encryption stands firm while everything surrounding it conspires to see through it.
UK Orders Ofcom to Explore Encryption Backdoors
Ofcom will soon have legal authority to compel encrypted messaging apps to scan all user content before it’s sent.
UK Lawmakers Propose Mandatory On-Device Surveillance and VPN Age Verification
The UK flirts with an extreme future where every device is surveilled.
The Disguised Return of the EU’s Private Message Scanning Plot
After public outrage buried it once, the EU’s mass surveillance plan is back; rebranded, repackaged, and more invasive than before.
UK Crime Agency Backs “Upload Prevention” Plan to Scan Encrypted Messages
The campaign recasts surveillance as safety, turning encryption from a shield of freedom into a checkpoint of trust.
X Urges EU to Reject “Chat Control 2.0” Surveillance Law Threatening End-To-End Encryption
Scanning every message before it’s sent flips the internet’s architecture from private by default to suspect by design.
Nigel Farage Warns US Congress: UK Censorship Law Threatens American Free Speech, Encryption, and Tech Innovation
Farage turned a Congressional hearing into a warning shot against Britain’s digital authoritarianism.
