Spain's government will now grade tech companies on speech removal twice a year, with the same officials defining what counts as hate setting the scores. The post Spain’s HODIO Program to Monitor
Attacks are usually from human error, not technology, which is why a five-minute audit is the most important thing you should be doing. The post Hackers Are Compromising Signal Accounts. Don’t Be
Uthmeier's April 8 deadline gives platforms one month to build the identity surveillance infrastructure that Florida's child-protection framing was designed to make you forget about. The post
313 people documented what a missile attack on their country looked like in real time, and their government's response was to make that a crime. The post Qatar Arrests 313 Over Iran Missile Attack
The law successfully drove millions of Australians to VPNs and unregulated sites. The post Australia VPN Boom as “Age Verification” Law Takes Effect
A system the government is describing as a digital convenience tool could, under legislation its own consultation proposed, become searchable by police without people's knowledge or consent. The
The DVLA was built to check whether people can drive, and the Lords just voted to turn it into the largest real-name face recognition database the police have ever had access to. The post UK Lords
The bill's child protection framing obscures what it actually creates: a legal architecture for government-controlled internet access that has no natural stopping point. The post UK Parliament Plans
A student who shared a pandemic video in a private chat walked away cleared, with a tribunal drawing a line that offended feelings and illegal discrimination are not the same thing. The post BC
Another country is moving toward getting in line with the agenda. The post New Zealand Parliamentary Committee Recommends Social Media Ban for Under-16s
Proton Mail's encryption held perfectly in a recent case. Here's everything else that didn't, and how to fix it. The post How to Actually Disappear on Proton Mail
Microsoft's new "context preservation" keeps you from losing the thread of your conversation and keeps you inside Microsoft's browser engine, whether you want to be there or not. The post Microsoft
The episode handed British regulators the pretext they'd been waiting for to wire censorship directly into the software itself. The post How Grok’s Football Roasts Put X in the Crosshairs of
Three states are using child safety as the wrapper for laws that would require adults to prove their identity to a third party just to turn on a computer. The post Linux Hardware CEO Speaks Out
The same officials who ordered the crackdown also wrote the definition of what counts as disinformation. The post Turkey Blocks 41 Social Media Accounts Over Iran War Posts
The bill's child safety framing is doing a lot of work to normalize what is, in practice, a government-linked identity layer baked into every device you own before you open a single app. The post
The message that leaves your keyboard is not the message that arrives. The post Roblox Introduces AI System That Rewrites Users’ Chat Messages in Real Time
The same government that already bars under-16s from social media is now coming for AI chatbots, app stores, and search engines. The post Australia’s “eSafety” Commissioner Threatens App
The bills arrive dressed as child protection but leave behind a mandate to build the largest ID grab in American consumer history. The post House Committee Passes Child “Safety” Bills That
For the first time, the most hardened mobile OS in existence has a manufacturer behind it with genuine reach in all major markets. The post The Privacy Phone Is Going Mainstream: The Deal That Could
