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Japan Plans Social Media Age Checks via Carrier Data
The fix Tokyo prefers would link the phone account in your legal name to everything you read, post, and scroll past.
MembersWhat to Like and What to Question About Europe’s New Open Source Office Push
The same governments selling you a sovereign office suite are the ones legislating their way past the encryption it would run on.
UK Wants Message Scanning on Phones, Jail CEOs Who Refuse
Refusing to install state spyware would put tech executives in prison for five years.
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.
Turkey Silenced Its Oldest Paper. It Took One Unnamed Post.
A paper that has printed since 1924 changed its own name this week to stay one step ahead of a court order.
Google Wants to Be the ID Checkpoint for Europe’s Internet
Google is volunteering to broker your legal identity for every ordinary thing you do online.
Florida vs. OpenAI: The Fight to ID Every ChatGPT User
Proving you are not a child means proving exactly who you are and that is the remedy Florida wants written into law.
Germany Fines Citizens a Month’s Wages for Insulting Chancellor Merz on Facebook
The fine isn’t really about the money, it’s about teaching everyone else to never criticize power.
South Wales Police Log Non-Criminal Islam Criticism
The conduct is lawful, the speech is legal, and yet the paperwork still ends up in front of your next employer.
MembersThe US Government Built a Tracking Bazaar and Adversaries Went Shopping
The government spent years defending a market that sells anyone’s location to anyone with money and the bill just came due in a war zone.
Dancing Spot Robots Will Surveil the 2026 World Cup
Boston Dynamics built a surveillance platform that knows how to dance.
Court Backs Coast Guard Auxiliary Firing Over LinkedIn Posts
The balancing test let the government win on a reasonable guess that harm might follow, with no proof any did.