The bill makes no distinction between a fake video designed to suppress votes and a satirical meme poking fun at the premier. The post Alberta Bill Would Fine Political Deepfakes $10,000 Without
A Brazilian judge has been ordering American tech companies to delete American speech for five years, and a new congressional report finally shows the receipts. The post Brazil’s Justice Moraes
The forecast is free, but you've been paying for it with every place you've ever visited. The post How Your Weather App Became a Surveillance Machine — and How to Escape It
The regulatory price for handing three million people's dating photos to a facial recognition startup turned out to be a promise to behave. The post OkCupid Gave 3M Users’ Photos to AI Firm, FTC
A European whose fingerprints end up in a US enforcement database by mistake would have to fix it through American courts. The post US & EU Negotiate Biometric Data-Sharing Deal
Courts and civil liberties groups have spent years warning that the DMCA's subpoena process is a censorship shortcut disguised as copyright enforcement. The post Kiwi Farms Challenges DMCA Subpoenas
The app that needs no internet, no servers, and no user accounts turned out to be exactly the kind of thing Beijing can't let exist. The post Apple Removes Bitchat from China App Store at Cyberspace
After centuries of prosecuting people for what they say, Britain may be closer than it has ever been to making free speech an actual legal right. The post Britain’s Free Speech Crisis and the Bill
One state legislator wants to shut down Illinois's largest facial recognition database, and 227 police organizations showed up to say no. The post Illinois Police Fight Bill to Ban Facial
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
Apple keeps helping the Kremlin shrink the internet one app removal at a time. The post Apple Removes Private VPN Apps From Russia App Store
The British government scraps non-crime hate incidents. The replacement system does everything the old one did, just with a fresher coat of bureaucratic paint. The post Britain’s Great Speech
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. The post Apple Expands Age
A federal agency spent taxpayer money telling Americans which news outlets to trust, and it took three years of litigation to make it stop. The post US State Dept Settles Free Speech Suppression
A blueprint for a nation starving for a taste of freedom. The post The Free Speech Act: A Demolition Plan For Britain’s Speech Laws (https://reclaimthenet.org/free-speech-act-uk) appeared first on
It's the kind of question that should have been settled years ago, and the silence tells you why it wasn't. The post The Fourth Amendment Has a VPN Problem
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. The post Starmer Pushes
Germany's draft deepfake law under Justice Minister Stefanie Hubig could criminalize political memes with up to two years in prison. The post Germany Drafts Law Making AI Deepfake Memes a Crime
A regional digitization push places millions of health records inside a system shaped by pandemic-era control mechanisms. The post WHO Pushes Digital Health Wallet Rollout
UK's £1B pandemic strategy proposes UKHSA contact tracing system using big tech location data, targeting 2030 deployment. The post UK’s New Pandemic Plan Would Turn Big Tech Into a Mass Location
