Privacy
EU Revives Plan for Year-Long Data Retention Across Digital Services, Including Encrypted Apps
A rewrite of Europe’s privacy rules could turn every click, call, and login into a year-long entry in a government ledger.
Digital IDs and AI Dreams: How Canada and Europe Plan to Sync the Future
As Europe and Canada link their digital identity and AI systems, the line between secure connectivity and centralized oversight grows increasingly thin.
MembersFrom Madison to Moscow: How VPNs Work and Why Governments (Despite Trying) Can’t Stop Them
Governments keep trying to cage the internet, only to find out it was never theirs to begin with.
Australian Leaders and Legacy Media Celebrates Launch of Online Digital ID Age Verification Law
A crusade to shield kids online ends with an entire nation under surveillance.
US May Require Digital Background Checks for Tourists and Their Families
America’s proposed travel rules could turn a simple vacation application into a government scan of a tourist’s digital footprint.
This FTC Workshop Could Legitimize the Push for Online Digital ID Checks
The FTC’s January workshop could accelerate the shift from an open web to one that demands your ID at every click.
UK: MPs Clash Over the Digital ID That No One Asked For
A free society’s oldest instinct, distrust of concentrated power, has returned to Westminster in digital form.
Berlin Approves New Expansion of Police Surveillance Powers
The law fuses hacking, home entry, and AI into a single blueprint for dystopian modern policing.
The Encryption Double Life of Canberra
Behind closed screens, the same officials pushing to weaken privacy laws are perfecting the art of vanishing conversations.
Court Forces OpenAI to Hand Over 20 Million ChatGPT Chats
A judge’s demand for chat logs has turned discovery into surveillance, exposing how fragile digital intimacy really is.
Russia Blocks Snapchat and FaceTime as Digital Crackdown Expands to Encrypted Apps and Foreign Platforms
Russia’s online world keeps shrinking as the government trades global access for tighter control at home.
Alaska Plots AI-Driven Digital Identity, Payments, and Biometric Data System
The state’s new system could turn bureaucracy into automation, and consent into a checkbox no one really controls.