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UK MPs Push Mandatory Software To Scan Every Phone Image
The pitch is that it only looks for illegal content. The catch is that it has to look at everything else to find it.
Britain’s Online Censorship Law Now Comes With a Crisis Plan for Your Posts
The switch is designed for emergencies, but its definition of one is remarkably elastic.
UK: Police Charge Kellie-Jay Keen Over X Posts
A speech offense with no clear boundary, now aimed at religious criticism.
UK High Court Upholds Speech Regulator Notices To Meta, WhatsApp, X, And TikTok
Court says Ofcom does not need a specific purpose before requesting social media data.
The UK Spy Agencies Asking for More Power Cannot Track Their Own Data
The guardians of Britain’s surveillance state are discovering that custody is harder than collection.
UK Speech Regulator Considers Restricting VPNs Over Online "Safety"
Ofcom wants emergency blocking powers, proactive scanning, and fewer ways for users to route around them.
UK Speech Regulator Ofcom Struggles To Enforce Censorship Law Fines Abroad
Ofcom can write the fines, but foreign courts get to decide whether anyone pays them.
British Government Employees Were Fact-Checking the News at the BBC. Nobody Told You.
UK civil servants worked on BBC News and BBC Verify content while remaining on government payroll.
UK: “YouTube Tax” Would Force You to Fund the BBC’s War on "Misinformation"
When the state funds the antidote, it gets a say in what counts as the disease.
UK: Police Watchdog Questions Linehan Heathrow Arrest Over Tweet
The watchdog says the apology still leaves the central question unanswered: why was he arrested at all.
UK: Woman Visited by Police Over Post She Says She Did Not Make
In Britain’s speech-policing era, even authorship has become a matter of suggestion.
UK Airports Begin Replacing Passport Checks With Facial Recognition
A small convenience upgrade arrives with the familiar privacy bill attached.
