Privacy
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.
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.
MembersThe Fourth Amendment Has a VPN Problem
It’s the kind of question that should have been settled years ago, and the silence tells you why it wasn’t.
Starmer Pushes Fast-Track Online Censorship Powers
The British Prime Minister sketches a future where online speech rules update as routinely as tax bracket, with scrutiny treated as an obstacle rather than a safeguard.
WHO Pushes Digital Health Wallet Rollout
A regional digitization push places millions of health records inside a system shaped by pandemic-era control mechanisms.
UK’s New Pandemic Plan Would Turn Big Tech Into a Mass Location Tracking Network
UK’s £1B pandemic strategy proposes UKHSA contact tracing system using big tech location data, targeting 2030 deployment.
Apple UK Age Verification Chaos: Users Face Failed Scans, Rejected Passports, and Forced Content Filters
A 67-year-old retired teacher who’s owned Apple products since 2009 now has her web browsing filtered because she pays for everything with a debit card.
Hong Kong Criminalizes Refusal to Unlock Phones for Police
The government says no new powers were added, which is a bold way to describe inventing a crime that didn’t exist last week.
The Age Verification Con
How Big Tech and politicians built a digital ID system for everyone while pretending to fight each other.
European Parliament Rejects Mass “Chat Control” Surveillance by Single Vote
The EU’s own data showed the scanning system failed to produce a single measurable link between mass surveillance and actual convictions.