Privacy
Canada’s Military Punished Whistleblowers Who Flagged Illegal COVID Speech Monitoring
Six years later, the legal vacuum that made domestic surveillance possible hasn’t moved an inch.
MembersThe School Spy Boom Nobody Asked For
Somewhere between the biometric lunch lines and the 24/7 monitoring software, American education became a data hoarding operation with a teaching problem.
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.
London Police Deploy Facial Recognition at Protest for First Time
Britain’s civil liberties are eroding one deployment at a time.
Canada Says Critics Don’t Understand Its Surveillance Bill
They do. That’s the problem.
MembersThe Web Is Splitting Into Approved and Unapproved Humans
Google asked permission to gate the open web in 2023, got rejected, and just shipped the same thing as a product update nobody voted on.
AI Safety Institute Debuts with Big-Name Backers and a Censorship Agenda
Every major speaker at the Copenhagen summit has a resume built on telling platforms what to take down.
The FSU Shooting Lawsuit That Could Turn ChatGPT Into a Surveillance Tool
Every AI company’s nightmare scenario just became a plaintiff’s attorney’s blueprint for court-ordered mass surveillance.
Reddit Tests Blocking Mobile Web to Force App Downloads
Reddit’s message to its most loyal lurkers is this: your anonymity is the one thing we can’t monetize.
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.
MembersThe 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.
Sweden Wants to Strap Tracking Devices on Children as Young as 13
The country that once exported its parenting model to the world now wants to put ankle monitors on 13-year-olds who haven’t been charged with a crime.