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Hack Club Hit With $200K Slack Fee Demand Spurs Urgent Switch to Open Source Tools

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Hack Club Hit With $200K Slack Fee Demand Spurs Urgent Switch to Open Source Tools

A $200,000 ultimatum forced Hack Club to confront the cost of convenience.

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Canada’s Controversial Bill C-2 Debate: Liberals Push Border Bill with Warrantless Data Access Powers

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Canada's Controversial Bill C-2 Debate: Liberals Push Border Bill with Warrantless Data Access Powers

Border security gets top billing, but the real show is warrantless surveillance slipping through the side door.

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Bipartisan Push in Congress to Weaken Section 230, Expand Online Surveillance, and Increase Platform Liability

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Bipartisan Push in Congress to Weaken Section 230, Expand Online Surveillance, and Increase Platform Liability

Calls for platform accountability came with few answers about who decides what speech is acceptable.

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UK Police Show Up at Cancer Patient’s Door Demanding an Apology For Social Media Post

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UK Police Show Up at Cancer Patient’s Door Demanding an Apology For Social Media Post

In the UK, demanding an apology seems to be a law enforcement strategy.

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OpenAI Adopts User Monitoring, Digital ID Verification

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OpenAI Adopts User Monitoring, Digital ID Verification

The internet's lasting stronghold of anonymity is being dismantled in the name of safety.

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Court Rejects Former Disinformation Board Chief Nina Jankowicz’s Defamation Suit Against Fox News

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Court Rejects Former Disinformation Board Chief Nina Jankowicz’s Defamation Suit Against Fox News

The decision cements a high bar for public figures trying to fight back against media characterization.

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Visa Enters The Digital ID Race

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Visa Enters The Digital ID Race

A handshake in Dubai signals a future where identity and payments merge into a single digital layer.

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Bipartisan Lawmakers Propose Federal Digital Identity Agency

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Bipartisan Lawmakers Propose Federal Digital Identity Agency

A federal digital ID watchdog could soon decide how anonymous you're allowed to be online.

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LaLiga’s Anti-Piracy Crackdown Triggers Widespread Internet Disruptions Across Spain

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LaLiga’s Anti-Piracy Crackdown Triggers Widespread Internet Disruptions Across Spain

Entire neighborhoods of the internet are going dark just so LaLiga can keep pirated streams off your screen.

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ACMA Pressures Tech Giants to Maintain State-Backed Fact-Checking in Australia

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ACMA Pressures Tech Giants to Maintain State-Backed Fact-Checking in Australia

ACMA’s push to revive fact-checking ties signals growing state pressure on tech platforms.

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Ninth Circuit Denies Google’s Rehearing in Epic Games Antitrust Case

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Ninth Circuit Denies Google’s Rehearing in Epic Games Antitrust Case

Google’s monopoly defense unravels as judges uphold injunctions.

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Tor Project Releases Experimental Tor VPN Beta for Android with Per-App Routing and Privacy Tools

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Tor Project Releases Experimental Tor VPN Beta for Android with Per-App Routing and Privacy Tools

It’s a major step for Tor on mobile, even if the software is still rough around the edges.

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California Social Media Age Verification Rules Face No Constitutional Ruling Until Finalized, Ninth Circuit Says

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California Social Media Age Verification Rules Face No Constitutional Ruling Until Finalized, Ninth Circuit Says

The fight over SB 976 now moves from the courtroom to the attorney general’s rulebook.

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US Condemns Prosecution of Finnish Lawmaker Over Bible Verse Tweet

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US Condemns Prosecution of Finnish Lawmaker Over Bible Verse Tweet

The State Department’s intervention marks a new phase in America’s resistance to Europe’s creeping speech controls.

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Bluesky Implements Age Verification in South Dakota and Wyoming

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Bluesky Implements Age Verification in South Dakota and Wyoming

Anonymous speech is being traded for compliance, one state law at a time.

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US Condemns Prosecution of Finnish Lawmaker Over Bible Verse Tweet

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US Condemns Prosecution of Finnish Lawmaker Over Bible Verse Tweet

The State Department’s intervention marks a new phase in America’s resistance to Europe’s creeping speech controls.

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Mullvad Introduces QUIC-Based WireGuard Obfuscation to Bypass Censorship and VPN Blocks

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Mullvad Introduces QUIC-Based WireGuard Obfuscation to Bypass Censorship and VPN Blocks

Mullvad wraps WireGuard in QUIC to make VPN traffic blend in with normal internet traffic.

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Von der Leyen Unveils New EU Censorship Push, Online Digital ID Plans, in 2025 State of the Union Speech

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Von der Leyen Unveils New EU Censorship Push, Online Digital ID Plans, in 2025 State of the Union Speech

Von der Leyen casts online "misinformation" as a contagion, folding speech regulation into the language of safety.

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Pakistan Data Breach Exposes Risks of Biometric Digital ID Systems

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Pakistan Data Breach Exposes Risks of Biometric Digital ID Systems

The government keeps collecting what it can't protect.

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Cybersecurity Experts Warn EU Against Chat Control 2.0 Regulation Ahead of Key Votes

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Cybersecurity Experts Warn EU Against Chat Control 2.0 Regulation Ahead of Key Votes

More than 500 scientists denounce EU's encrypted message scanning as "technically infeasible."