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France’s Senate Approves Bill Expanding Police Powers Over Online Speech A bill about broken windows now reaches into feeds, cameras, and the machinery of dissent and criticism.
France’s Senate Approves Bill Expanding Police Powers Over Online Speech
A bill about broken windows now reaches into feeds, cameras, and the machinery of dissent and criticism.
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Deaconess Settles Hospital Data Sharing Lawsuit The settlement closes the case, but leaves the hospital’s digital paper trail under seal.
Deaconess Settles Hospital Data Sharing Lawsuit
The settlement closes the case, but leaves the hospital’s digital paper trail under seal.
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California Lawsuit Seeks ChatGPT Ban on Medical Advice The order wouldn’t stop bad medical advice. It would stop medical advice, and call that safety.
California Lawsuit Seeks ChatGPT Ban on Medical Advice
The order wouldn’t stop bad medical advice. It would stop medical advice, and call that safety.
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Secret FISA Ruling Allegedly Details Warrantless Searches of Americans’ Messages A warrantless search by any other name still looks like a warrantless search.
Secret FISA Ruling Allegedly Details Warrantless Searches of Americans’ Messages
A warrantless search by any other name still looks like a warrantless search.
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Canada’s Digital Censorship Bill Could Expand to Roblox and Discord Roblox and Discord may be next in line for Canada’s age verification experiment.
Canada’s Digital Censorship Bill Could Expand to Roblox and Discord
Roblox and Discord may be next in line for Canada’s age verification experiment.
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Ontario Begins Phased Rollout of Digital Provincial ID A digital identity can be optional on paper and unavoidable in practice.
Ontario Begins Phased Rollout of Digital Provincial ID
A digital identity can be optional on paper and unavoidable in practice.
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Texas Sues OpenAI Over Lack of Digital ID Age Checks Texas wants ChatGPT to card its customers, preferably with a government ID in hand.
Texas Sues OpenAI Over Lack of Digital ID Age Checks
Texas wants ChatGPT to card its customers, preferably with a government ID in hand.
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Apple Supports Digital ID Push With Facial Age Estimation Once age checks live at the system level, every new mandate gets an easier ride.
Apple Supports Digital ID Push With Facial Age Estimation
Once age checks live at the system level, every new mandate gets an easier ride.
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Poland Approves New Internet Blocking Powers Poland’s president is being handed a same censorship bill to the one he rejected as a Ministry of Truth in January.
Poland Approves New Internet Blocking Powers
Poland’s president is being handed a same censorship bill to the one he rejected as a Ministry of Truth in January.
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France Had a Plan to Shut Down Social Media. You Need a Plan to Stay Online. Setting it up costs you an evening. Waiting could cost you the chance.
France Had a Plan to Shut Down Social Media. You Need a Plan to Stay Online.
Setting it up costs you an evening. Waiting could cost you the chance.
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Brazil’s Lula Signals More Internet Restrictions After Election Victory Lula wants to speak directly to the people, preferably after regulating everyone else’s speech.
Brazil’s Lula Signals More Internet Restrictions After Election Victory
Lula wants to speak directly to the people, preferably after regulating everyone else’s speech.
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The NYPD’s New Cell Tracker Is Built for Mobility The machine is portable, the data is expansive, and accountability remains mostly theoretical.
The NYPD’s New Cell Tracker Is Built for Mobility
The machine is portable, the data is expansive, and accountability remains mostly theoretical.
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Canada’s "Emergency" Debanking Powers Are Headed for Their Biggest Test The convoy may be gone, but the government’s most consequential protest tactic is still in court.
Canada’s "Emergency" Debanking Powers Are Headed for Their Biggest Test
The convoy may be gone, but the government’s most consequential protest tactic is still in court.
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France Prepared to Block Snapchat, TikTok, and Instagram During Protests The kill switch never flipped, but the government had already drafted the scene.
France Prepared to Block Snapchat, TikTok, and Instagram During Protests
The kill switch never flipped, but the government had already drafted the scene.
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Half A Million Daily Shoppers Face Biometric Scanning On London's Oxford Street Oxford Street is becoming a test case for making mass surveillance feel like urban furniture.
Half A Million Daily Shoppers Face Biometric Scanning On London's Oxford Street
Oxford Street is becoming a test case for making mass surveillance feel like urban furniture.
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Google To Allows Ads Based on Gmail and Photos Data Personal Intelligence reads like a concierge, then behaves like an ad broker.
Google To Allows Ads Based on Gmail and Photos Data
Personal Intelligence reads like a concierge, then behaves like an ad broker.
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Bill C-22: Time Is Running Out to Stop Canada’s Surveillance Law Canada’s Bill C-22 would require metadata retention and surveillance capabilities from service providers.
Bill C-22: Time Is Running Out to Stop Canada’s Surveillance Law
Canada’s Bill C-22 would require metadata retention and surveillance capabilities from service providers.
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Quad9 to Leave France Over DNS Blocking Order France has handed Quad9 a choice between global censorship, user surveillance, and retreat.
Quad9 to Leave France Over DNS Blocking Order
France has handed Quad9 a choice between global censorship, user surveillance, and retreat.
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Your Ad Blocker Is Now Security Software. How to make the most of it. If a site matters, paying for it beats trusting an automated marketplace with your safety.
Your Ad Blocker Is Now Security Software. How to make the most of it.
If a site matters, paying for it beats trusting an automated marketplace with your safety.
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Florida Wants to Put an Age Gate on the Entire Internet Florida banned kids under 14, took Meta to court, and went after ChatGPT. Now it wants the phone itself to check your age.
Florida Wants to Put an Age Gate on the Entire Internet
Florida banned kids under 14, took Meta to court, and went after ChatGPT. Now it wants the phone itself to check your age.
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Australian Meta Lawsuit Puts Adult Online Privacy at Risk Meta’s design choices are on trial, along with the increasingly popular idea that identity checks are the cure.
Australian Meta Lawsuit Puts Adult Online Privacy at Risk
Meta’s design choices are on trial, along with the increasingly popular idea that identity checks are the cure.
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French Users Flock To Bitchat Amid Social Network Shutdown Fears France’s interior minister floated suspending social networks amid riots. Offline messenger Bitchat surged.
French Users Flock To Bitchat Amid Social Network Shutdown Fears
France’s interior minister floated suspending social networks amid riots. Offline messenger Bitchat surged.
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Signal’s Red Line Is Canada’s Bill C-22 The bill’s amendments may soften the language without softening the stakes.
Signal’s Red Line Is Canada’s Bill C-22
The bill’s amendments may soften the language without softening the stakes.
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Know Your Customer, Feed Your Fraudster Every law that requires another platform to collect ID is also a law that schedules another breach.
Know Your Customer, Feed Your Fraudster
Every law that requires another platform to collect ID is also a law that schedules another breach.
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Democrats' Letter Presses Big Tech on 2026 Midterm Election Posts The proposed solution is familiar: more moderation, more monitoring, and fewer places for ambiguity.
Democrats' Letter Presses Big Tech on 2026 Midterm Election Posts
The proposed solution is familiar: more moderation, more monitoring, and fewer places for ambiguity.
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Meta Fined $25 Billion Over "Hate Speech" and Privacy Claims The privacy scandal is familiar. The speech counts are where this case gets genuinely unsettling.
Meta Fined $25 Billion Over "Hate Speech" and Privacy Claims
The privacy scandal is familiar. The speech counts are where this case gets genuinely unsettling.
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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 Considers Restricting VPNs Over Online "Safety"
Ofcom wants emergency blocking powers, proactive scanning, and fewer ways for users to route around them.
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The New Geography of Being Watched The most unsettling part is not that the machine can find you, but how little it needs to start.
The New Geography of Being Watched
The most unsettling part is not that the machine can find you, but how little it needs to start.
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Australia Wants the World to Follow Its Online Censorship Blueprint The bill says it is not about speech, but its critics are already reading the subtext.
Australia Wants the World to Follow Its Online Censorship Blueprint
The bill says it is not about speech, but its critics are already reading the subtext.
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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.
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.
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