Privacy
MembersClose the Shades: The Supreme Court, Google Location History, and the Reach of the Fourth Amendment
The justices seem ready to decide that mass surveillance is fine if you could have turned it off.
The Subpoena as Speech Suppressor: Supreme Court Sides with First Choice
The unanimous decision revives a fight over donor lists that the Court has been losing patience with since 1958.
Tumbler Ridge Lawsuits Seek to Force OpenAI Into ID Verification, Police Referrals for ChatGPT Users
The remedies sought would end pseudonymous AI use and wire every ChatGPT conversation to a permanent law enforcement pipeline.
House Renews FISA Section 702, Rejects Warrant Requirement
The reforms add paperwork and prison time for misuse, but they leave the part everyone has fought about for two decades exactly where it was.
EU Pushes Age Verification App for All States
Brussels wants every member state shipping its age verification app by year’s end, three months after a security researcher cracked it in under two minutes.
Britain’s Pre-Decided “Consultation” on Banning Social Media for Under-16s
The verification system needed to keep teenagers off Instagram happens to be the same one needed to track everyone else.
Brussels Wants Google’s Search Data
Brussels wants the data shared at the same speed Google reads it itself, to recipients the proposal hasn’t finished naming.
Apple Adds Age Verification to Digital ID in Wallet, Moves Beyond TSA Airport Checkpoints
Apple’s age verification rollout arrives without fanfare for a reason.
Lawton Police Deploy Clearview AI Facial Recognition Tech
Lawton, OK, just gave twenty-six officers the keys to a database its residents never agreed to join.
UK Biobank Failures Expose the Permanent Cost of Sharing Genetic and Medical Records
The promise of secure custodianship has failed 198 times in eleven months, and the volunteers who signed up in 2006 cannot take their DNA back.
When a Train Ticket Costs Your Passport: The Eurail Breach and the Digital ID Problem
The stolen files include everything an identity thief would want and nothing Eurail ever needed to sell a rail ticket.
The Surveillance Accountability Act Demands Warrants for Data
The silent handoff from your bank, your carrier, and your ISP to the federal government would finally stop happening behind your back.