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Canada’s Bill C-34 Would Require ID or Face Scan to Use Social Media
Canada becomes the latest country to try to end online anonymity under the banner of protecting children.
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Your Town for $300M: Surveillance State, on Sale
Buried beneath the law-and-order slogans is a procurement list that doubles as the blueprint for permanent surveillance.
SDSU Wired Its Dorms With 1,300 AI Cameras Without Telling Students
The students found out their dorms held more than 330 cameras from their own newspaper, not the school that installed them.
Dancing Spot Robots Will Surveil the 2026 World Cup
Boston Dynamics built a surveillance platform that knows how to dance.
“Dystopian” Police.AI Launches in UK Amid False Arrests
The £115 million pitch is speed but one of its early matches sent a software engineer to a cell for a burglary a hundred miles from home.
Disney Faces $5M Lawsuit Over Disneyland Facial Recognition
The lawsuit lands as facial recognition quietly becomes the price of admission at stadiums, airports, and more.
Oklahoma Sues Roblox, but the “Fix” Is Biometric Checks
The lawsuit designed to protect children from surveillance essentially mandates a biometric surveillance system for 150 million users.
Britain Decides Viral Protest Clips Need Prosecutors
Your chant at a march is now judged not by the crowd around you but by how a stranger might feel watching a clip of it online.
London Police Deploy Facial Recognition at Protest for First Time
Britain’s civil liberties are eroding one deployment at a time.
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The US Government Wants Agents Wearing Face Scanners
The government is building glasses that turn a glance into a federal database query and the deployment date is already set.
Shapiro’s AI Chatbot Plan Opens the Door to ID-Gated, Surveilled Conversations
Pennsylvania’s governor is using one rogue chatbot to justify putting a digital checkpoint in front of every AI conversation in the state.
Roblox Loses 12M Daily Users After Age ID Check Rollout
Half the user base is now living on a degraded version of the platform until they hand over biometric data.
