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MembersHow 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.
OkCupid Gave 3M Users’ Photos to AI Firm, FTC Says
The regulatory price for handing three million people’s dating photos to a facial recognition startup turned out to be a promise to behave.
US & EU Negotiate Biometric Data-Sharing Deal
A European whose fingerprints end up in a US enforcement database by mistake would have to fix it through American courts.
Apple Removes Bitchat from China App Store at Cyberspace Administration Order
The app that needs no internet, no servers, and no user accounts turned out to be exactly the kind of thing Beijing can’t let exist.
Kiwi Farms Challenges DMCA Subpoenas as Tools to Unmask Anonymous Speech
Courts and civil liberties groups have spent years warning that the DMCA’s subpoena process is a censorship shortcut disguised as copyright enforcement.
Britain’s Free Speech Crisis and the Bill That Would Fix It
After centuries of prosecuting people for what they say, Britain may be closer than it has ever been to making free speech an actual legal right.
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.