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You have posted or shared material proposing that “privacy-preserving age verification” (often: “ZKP”) exists, will work & help keep people safe", "url": "https://alecmuffett.com/article/160883", "published_at": "2026-06-17T09:18:01+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08723-47f0-7396-a429-de3d6d44526d", "title": "It is misleading for the Prime Minister, or anyone else, to suggest the privacy concerns here are no more serious than being ID’d for a pint", "url": "https://alecmuffett.com/article/160856", "published_at": "2026-06-15T22:29:22+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08723-47f0-7396-a429-de3d6dd887d3", "title": "Tracker of Tech Industry, Think Tank, and Other Responses to Proposed Expansion of UK Censorship Laws – Preston Byrne", "url": "https://alecmuffett.com/article/160835", "published_at": "2026-06-15T18:22:27+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08723-47f0-7396-a429-de3d6dfd5d24", "title": "Farage would employ “chekists” so that central government may police ideology in schools, colleges", "url": "https://alecmuffett.com/article/160820", "published_at": "2026-06-15T15:20:26+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08723-47f0-7396-a429-de3d6ec643b0", "title": "Mumsnet: “Australia didn’t do enough & Tech Companies must Nerd Harder”; Labour MP: “LinkedIn is The Dark Web”", "url": "https://alecmuffett.com/article/160791", "published_at": "2026-06-15T10:30:25+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08723-47f0-7396-a429-de3d6f101252", "title": "For those who feel anguished at our government’s slide into totalitarianism: some words of possible comfort", "url": "https://alecmuffett.com/article/160776", "published_at": "2026-06-15T08:50:10+00:00" }, { "id": "01a08723-47f0-7396-a429-de3d6fe69426", "title": "Enid Blyton to be appointed Minister for Child Safety in the newly announced National Childhood Service | GOV.UK", "url": "https://alecmuffett.com/article/160761", "published_at": "2026-06-15T08:24:58+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e30f-51bb-712d-b56f-a553532c8ab6", "title": "Stop Killing the Internet | A Global Movement for a Better Internet", "url": "https://alecmuffett.com/article/160756", "published_at": "2026-06-15T08:08:58+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e30f-51bb-712d-b56f-a55353636489", "title": "Censorial, pro-age-verification pro-surveillance child safety charity *suddenly* against Government attempting to render them irrelevant via age verification to ban children from social media", "url": "https://alecmuffett.com/article/160691", "published_at": "2026-06-13T10:50:56+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e30f-51bb-712d-b56f-a553540f57cf", "title": "UK Gov *rejects* “privacy by design” architecture, GDPR-mandated data minimisation now supposedly “makes children unsafe”", "url": "https://alecmuffett.com/article/160669", "published_at": "2026-06-13T06:34:46+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e30f-51bb-712d-b56f-a55354b64d3b", "title": "Observation: The UK & EU now must deregulate & promote globally competitive AI/LLM provision on grounds of Digital Sovereignty", "url": "https://alecmuffett.com/article/160661", "published_at": "2026-06-13T05:21:19+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e30f-51bb-712d-b56f-a553552a98ce", "title": "UK set to ban under-16s from social media, livestreaming, disappearing messages – POLITICO", "url": "https://alecmuffett.com/article/160636", "published_at": "2026-06-12T15:27:36+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e30f-51bb-712d-b56f-a553559613bd", "title": "The End of the Open Internet | Foreign Affairs", "url": "https://alecmuffett.com/article/160594", "published_at": "2026-06-11T05:59:43+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e30f-51bb-712d-b56f-a553566c14aa", "title": "“Signal President Meredith Whittaker threatens again to pull the encrypted messaging app out of the UK”", "url": "https://alecmuffett.com/article/160576", "published_at": "2026-06-11T04:28:55+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e30f-51bb-712d-b56f-a553570abf67", "title": "Some day Civil Society must grapple with whether platforms can differentiate markets on the basis of delivering Privacy & Security features", "url": "https://alecmuffett.com/article/160535", "published_at": "2026-06-10T08:31:58+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e30f-51bb-712d-b56f-a553572ca591", "title": "I designed a hat for the Age Verification community. 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SIMPLY NOT HANDING YOUR CHILD A SMARTPHONE, JESS?", "url": "https://alecmuffett.com/article/159582", "published_at": "2026-05-28T04:58:49+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e30f-51bb-712d-b56f-a5535cb02279", "title": "California Wants an Age Tracker for the Whole Web", "url": "https://alecmuffett.com/article/159560", "published_at": "2026-05-27T19:27:31+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e30f-51bb-712d-b56f-a5535d4932fa", "title": "Germany’s state media regulators are preparing new rules that could force platforms like X, Facebook, TikTok and Instagram to give greater visibility to “trusted” or “reliable” media outlets in their algorithms", "url": "https://alecmuffett.com/article/159549", "published_at": "2026-05-27T16:10:47+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e30f-51bb-712d-b56f-a5535d4f2486", "title": "New Zealand prepares biometric age credential for Govt.nz digital wallet | Biometric Update", "url": "https://alecmuffett.com/article/159495", "published_at": "2026-05-26T23:51:36+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e30f-51bb-712d-b56f-a5535e2b1277", "title": "Westminster Recycles Tobacco-Style Panic Campaign For Internet Crackdown", "url": "https://alecmuffett.com/article/159491", "published_at": "2026-05-26T21:55:12+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e30f-51bb-712d-b56f-a5535ee5ea7a", "title": "How Often Do Consumers Balk at Doing Online Age Authentication? | Technology & Marketing Law Blog", "url": "https://alecmuffett.com/article/159486", "published_at": "2026-05-26T21:49:17+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e30f-51bb-712d-b56f-a5535eed6bdf", "title": "Social media ‘is vital’, say Welsh teens arguing against a ban | BBC News", "url": "https://alecmuffett.com/article/159481", "published_at": "2026-05-26T20:47:54+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e30f-51bb-712d-b56f-a5535f937a9e", "title": "Mandatory Age Verification + Lack of Account Memorialization = Horrific Insensitivity by Substack (& others?)", "url": "https://alecmuffett.com/article/159264", "published_at": "2026-05-23T06:49:45+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e30f-51bb-712d-b56f-a5536000fbf6", "title": "UK Government King’s Speech proposes “Cyber ASBO” with obvious risk of scope creep into censorship", "url": "https://alecmuffett.com/article/158723", "published_at": "2026-05-13T19:19:46+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e30f-51bb-712d-b56f-a55360f8eb3b", "title": "Don’t take away our freedom to play games when we want | 38 Degrees", "url": "https://alecmuffett.com/article/157789", "published_at": "2026-04-30T07:21:52+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e30f-51bb-712d-b56f-a55361293743", "title": "‘Von der Leyen Announces the EU’s New Age Verification App Claiming it is “Completely Anonymous” & users “Cannot be Tracked”’ | …the EU is about to have its ‘Clipper’ moment", "url": "https://alecmuffett.com/article/156478", "published_at": "2026-04-15T11:28:08+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e30f-51bb-712d-b56f-a553620bf03d", "title": "From 2019: ‘If there were 5 million “bad people” on Facebook – terrorists, criminals, drug-dealers, whatever – that would be 0.2% of the userbase’", "url": "https://alecmuffett.com/article/156179", "published_at": "2026-04-13T18:05:49+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e30f-51bb-712d-b56f-a553623ba361", "title": "I find it bizarre that the AgeVerification (AV) industry says “platforms don’t want AV because they don’t want private data” – BUT civil society says “platforms DO want AV because they want private data”", "url": "https://alecmuffett.com/article/156094", "published_at": "2026-04-13T09:04:07+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e30f-51bb-712d-b56f-a553625b8a53", "title": "Trump posts graphic video of slaying to argue for stricter immigration policies | BBC News", "url": "https://alecmuffett.com/article/155924", "published_at": "2026-04-11T20:24:14+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e30f-51bb-712d-b56f-a55362ef7fb0", "title": "In a X/Twitter post that garnered over 3.2 million impressions, EFF declares X is”…no longer where the fight is happening”", "url": "https://alecmuffett.com/article/155764", "published_at": "2026-04-10T20:01:24+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e30f-51bb-712d-b56f-a55363170535", "title": "A bug on the dark side of the Moon", "url": "https://alecmuffett.com/article/155136", "published_at": "2026-04-08T06:30:03+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e30f-51bb-712d-b56f-a55363b1caa1", "title": "The trial lawyers come for online free speech | Blaze Media", "url": "https://alecmuffett.com/article/154743", "published_at": "2026-04-06T19:23:37+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e30f-51bb-712d-b56f-a55363fb38a7", "title": "New Mexico’s Meta Ruling and Encryption | Schneier on Security", "url": "https://alecmuffett.com/article/154741", "published_at": "2026-04-06T19:19:41+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e30f-51bb-712d-b56f-a55363fc94be", "title": "Age Verification causing people to stop installing security updates on iPhone", "url": "https://alecmuffett.com/article/153062", "published_at": "2026-04-03T08:19:31+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e30f-51bb-712d-b56f-a55364f8a5e9", "title": "Australian eSafety: “It is a ‘dark pattern’ to permit people to 1/ amend mistakes 2/ be in control of information about themselves 3/ be obliged to validate abuse reports”", "url": "https://alecmuffett.com/article/152831", "published_at": "2026-04-01T20:12:25+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e30f-51bb-712d-b56f-a55365cc1b73", "title": "The Timeless Fear of Corrupting the Youth | WSJ", "url": "https://alecmuffett.com/article/151916", "published_at": "2026-03-28T07:02:58+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e30f-51bb-712d-b56f-a5536685d540", "title": "The Big Tech verdicts you’re cheering for are actually terrible for free speech | The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expression", "url": "https://alecmuffett.com/article/151865", "published_at": "2026-03-27T19:23:28+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e30f-51bb-712d-b56f-a55367447998", "title": "‘…all of the evidence submitted to “prove” Meta knew their product was harmful was internal safety research they were conducting to improve their moderation and detection’", "url": "https://alecmuffett.com/article/151818", "published_at": "2026-03-27T14:56:16+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e30f-51bb-712d-b56f-a55367ecf4c9", "title": "‘The Encryption Problem: Where “Design Liability” Leads’ | … IF YOU ARE CHEERING META LOSING 2X RECENT LAWSUITS YOU ARE SUPPORTING THE END OF ONLINE PRIVACY", "url": "https://alecmuffett.com/article/151775", "published_at": "2026-03-27T09:06:11+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e30f-51bb-712d-b56f-a55368380617", "title": "[Europe] voted today to end chat monitoring 1.0. This ends an exception that was used, in particular, by US Big Tech companies to monitor billions of people’s private messages without suspicion", "url": "https://alecmuffett.com/article/151697", "published_at": "2026-03-26T18:18:03+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e30f-51bb-712d-b56f-a553685f345a", "title": "MEPs block tech firms from scanning for child sexual abuse material | POLITICO", "url": "https://alecmuffett.com/article/151666", "published_at": "2026-03-26T13:50:01+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e30f-51bb-712d-b56f-a5536905faff", "title": "I am very much looking at the Apple Age Verification (AV) approach as the least bad way to do something terrible", "url": "https://alecmuffett.com/article/151652", "published_at": "2026-03-26T10:55:55+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e30f-51bb-712d-b56f-a55369573deb", "title": "Remember that big win on ChatControl a couple of weeks ago? It turns out they didn’t like  the result and they want to vote on it again, TODAY. Sorry.", "url": "https://alecmuffett.com/article/151637", "published_at": "2026-03-26T09:08:23+00:00" }, { "id": "01a0e30f-51bb-712d-b56f-a553699e42bf", "title": "This cybersecurity tweet from @SciTechgovuk / DSIT is getting *brigaded* by people pointing out how the UK Government is actively undermining cybersecurity", "url": "https://alecmuffett.com/article/151611", "published_at": "2026-03-26T04:09:20+00:00" } ] posts Claim your blog
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IF YOU DO NOTHING ELSE TODAY: please read this astonishing summary of what Paul Moore has been doing to #SafeToNet, #HarmBlock & the Government-lauded #HMDFuse kids’ phoneoriginal ↗
23 Sept 2026
Squirrels: The Threat to Critical National Infrastructureoriginal ↗
17 Sept 2026
Obvious in retrospect, someone who got their break “looking through the square window” into everyone’s lives, is going to be in favour of surveillance & censorshiporiginal ↗
14 Sept 2026
Douglas Adams in 1978 predicted Terence Tao’s role as Vroomfondel in the modern AI debate: “We demand rigidly defined areas of doubt and uncertainty!”original ↗
4 Sept 2026
RSA-260 has been factorisedoriginal ↗
3 Sept 2026
“German flashlight forum TLF (taschenlampen-forum.de) will be taken offline permanently on September 16”original ↗
31 Aug 2026
“Trump ally issues bill to exempt US websites from British regulators”original ↗
27 Aug 2026
CDT: “The British Public Reject State Access to Private Online Conversations”original ↗
27 Aug 2026
France’s top court blocks social media ban for under-15s | Reutersoriginal ↗
14 Aug 2026
#RUSI / Royal United Services Institute makes batshit proposal to socially engineer “nationalism” in Britain to foster “total defence” / army signupsoriginal ↗
10 Aug 2026
Eventually @andyburnham @10DowningStreet must choose whether he wants British children online to be “safe” or “educated”, ‘coz we can’t have “both”original ↗
6 Aug 2026
The Java Story | The Official Documentaryoriginal ↗
3 Aug 2026
Remember, Kids: Cyberaugmentation is only for the less-abled!original ↗
1 Aug 2026
RE: 1 BILLIONoriginal ↗
31 Jul 2026
microgptoriginal ↗
31 Jul 2026
Ofcom’s quest to censor the world | spikedoriginal ↗
31 Jul 2026
When I started password cracking in 1991, using all available computer resources of a small university I could manage about 200 guesses per secondoriginal ↗
30 Jul 2026
New York puts accuracy minimums for age assurance into effect with SAFE for Kids Act | Biometric Updateoriginal ↗
30 Jul 2026
India App Censorship Leads To Own Goal, Streisand Effect, Ofcom To Take Note, Please| Rahul Matthanoriginal ↗
29 Jul 2026
US Gov’t threatens sanctions on China for Open Source LLMs “because distillation is a cyber attack”original ↗
23 Jul 2026
The Huggingface Dilemmaoriginal ↗
22 Jul 2026
Apple Defeats Liability for Not Scanning iCloud for CSAM, But the Judge Was Not Pleased-Amy v. Apple | Eric Goldmanoriginal ↗
21 Jul 2026
EU Exempts Apple Watch and AirPods [and iPhone] From Battery Removal Requirement [due to water resistance & safety]original ↗
20 Jul 2026
I was waiting for this: House of Lords / Baroness Royall: “Algorithms Killed Ann Widdecombe”original ↗
17 Jul 2026
“Social Media Curfew” is a Digital “Purity Ring”original ↗
14 Jul 2026
How It Started in 2018 / How It’s Going in 2026: UK Labour Government to discover “Timezones” in 3… 2…original ↗
14 Jul 2026
Coco had a haircut…original ↗
14 Jul 2026
I asked 3 separate AIs to pretend to be Nigel Farage’s campaign manager and to propose a strategy to survive the Clacton by-election; this is what they suggestedoriginal ↗
9 Jul 2026
EU Mandates Driver-Facing Cameras in New Cars From Todayoriginal ↗
7 Jul 2026
Stochastic Nerdsoriginal ↗
7 Jul 2026
Age Verification is Digital IDoriginal ↗
3 Jul 2026
India asks WhatsApp to pause username feature rollout over fraud concerns – BBC Newsoriginal ↗
2 Jul 2026
Remember, folks: coordinated misinformation campaigns only happen on the internet / in social media, not in the fact-checked, trustworthy mainstream pressoriginal ↗
2 Jul 2026
Mullvad, Napoleon and Sun Tzu: it would be wise for civil society to take a look in the mirrororiginal ↗
1 Jul 2026
When you build tools with abstract and rather arbitrary notions of “safety” baked into them – not addressing a specific threat model – they get considerably weakeroriginal ↗
1 Jul 2026
Online Age Verification Law Could Kill Whistleblowingoriginal ↗
29 Jun 2026
It’s not about the children, it’s about how monetize surveillance: demand the illiberal, stupid, self-defeating & impossible, & then criminalise the wrong people for circumventionoriginal ↗
28 Jun 2026
Britain, or Russia?original ↗
27 Jun 2026
Digital Sovereignty is a Clusterfuckoriginal ↗
25 Jun 2026
Gov’t “would…like Ofcom to launch a rapid assessment of what highly effective age assurance looks like for determining whether someone is over 16”original ↗
24 Jun 2026
Chips Security Act gains industry support: letteroriginal ↗
22 Jun 2026
UK wants to monetize “leadership” in surveillance, censorship, age-verification to gatekeep internet, get revenueoriginal ↗
18 Jun 2026
If you are a Parent here’s One Thing you should be utterly furious about regarding the UK’s Social Media Banoriginal ↗
18 Jun 2026
The White House Wants Anthropic to Block All Jailbreaks. That May Not Be Possible | WIREDoriginal ↗
18 Jun 2026
OECD urges mandatory use of shared infrastructure to scale DPI adoption | Biometric Updateoriginal ↗
17 Jun 2026
Remember, kids: platform-specific AppStores are tools of monopoly which prevent free choice!original ↗
17 Jun 2026
FAQ: Hello! You have posted or shared material proposing that “privacy-preserving age verification” (often: “ZKP”) exists, will work & help keep people safeoriginal ↗
17 Jun 2026
It is misleading for the Prime Minister, or anyone else, to suggest the privacy concerns here are no more serious than being ID’d for a pintoriginal ↗
15 Jun 2026
Tracker of Tech Industry, Think Tank, and Other Responses to Proposed Expansion of UK Censorship Laws – Preston Byrneoriginal ↗
15 Jun 2026
Farage would employ “chekists” so that central government may police ideology in schools, collegesoriginal ↗
15 Jun 2026
Mumsnet: “Australia didn’t do enough & Tech Companies must Nerd Harder”; Labour MP: “LinkedIn is The Dark Web”original ↗
15 Jun 2026
For those who feel anguished at our government’s slide into totalitarianism: some words of possible comfortoriginal ↗
15 Jun 2026
Enid Blyton to be appointed Minister for Child Safety in the newly announced National Childhood Service | GOV.UKoriginal ↗
15 Jun 2026
Stop Killing the Internet | A Global Movement for a Better Internetoriginal ↗
15 Jun 2026
Censorial, pro-age-verification pro-surveillance child safety charity *suddenly* against Government attempting to render them irrelevant via age verification to ban children from social mediaoriginal ↗
13 Jun 2026
UK Gov *rejects* “privacy by design” architecture, GDPR-mandated data minimisation now supposedly “makes children unsafe”original ↗
13 Jun 2026
Observation: The UK & EU now must deregulate & promote globally competitive AI/LLM provision on grounds of Digital Sovereigntyoriginal ↗
13 Jun 2026
UK set to ban under-16s from social media, livestreaming, disappearing messages – POLITICOoriginal ↗
12 Jun 2026
The End of the Open Internet | Foreign Affairsoriginal ↗
11 Jun 2026
“Signal President Meredith Whittaker threatens again to pull the encrypted messaging app out of the UK”original ↗
11 Jun 2026
Some day Civil Society must grapple with whether platforms can differentiate markets on the basis of delivering Privacy & Security featuresoriginal ↗
10 Jun 2026
I designed a hat for the Age Verification community. We should ship a bunch of them to Westminster.original ↗
9 Jun 2026
Australia: “the reason that age verification is not working / that kids keep circumventing it, is a lack of good faith on the part of the platforms”original ↗
8 Jun 2026
This: Clippy The Magic Nonce Detectororiginal ↗
8 Jun 2026
“A social media ban should be extended to those aged 16 and 17, the @ChildrensComm (@Rachel_deSouza) has proposed”original ↗
8 Jun 2026
TFW when the younglings discover “defence in depth” | ht: @SwiftOnSecurityoriginal ↗
6 Jun 2026
Compare and Contrast: what is the likely consequence of such simultaneous positions?original ↗
2 Jun 2026
Payment apps are watching what you say (feat. Rainey Reitman) – Lock and Codeoriginal ↗
1 Jun 2026
“You can tell by the way complaints or requests are worded that they have used AI technology to be able to ask for that information,” he saidoriginal ↗
31 May 2026
Using AI to assist interpretation…original ↗
30 May 2026
Govt: “We committed in the Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy ‘to make it impossible for children in the UK to take, share or view a nude image.’”original ↗
29 May 2026
HOW ABOUT SIMPLY NOT HANDING YOUR CHILD A SMARTPHONE, JESS?original ↗
28 May 2026
California Wants an Age Tracker for the Whole Weboriginal ↗
27 May 2026
Germany’s state media regulators are preparing new rules that could force platforms like X, Facebook, TikTok and Instagram to give greater visibility to “trusted” or “reliable” media outlets in their algorithmsoriginal ↗
27 May 2026
New Zealand prepares biometric age credential for Govt.nz digital wallet | Biometric Updateoriginal ↗
26 May 2026
Westminster Recycles Tobacco-Style Panic Campaign For Internet Crackdownoriginal ↗
26 May 2026
How Often Do Consumers Balk at Doing Online Age Authentication? | Technology & Marketing Law Blogoriginal ↗
26 May 2026
Social media ‘is vital’, say Welsh teens arguing against a ban | BBC Newsoriginal ↗
26 May 2026
Mandatory Age Verification + Lack of Account Memorialization = Horrific Insensitivity by Substack (& others?)original ↗
23 May 2026
UK Government King’s Speech proposes “Cyber ASBO” with obvious risk of scope creep into censorshiporiginal ↗
13 May 2026
Don’t take away our freedom to play games when we want | 38 Degreesoriginal ↗
30 Apr 2026
‘Von der Leyen Announces the EU’s New Age Verification App Claiming it is “Completely Anonymous” & users “Cannot be Tracked”’ | …the EU is about to have its ‘Clipper’ momentoriginal ↗
15 Apr 2026
From 2019: ‘If there were 5 million “bad people” on Facebook – terrorists, criminals, drug-dealers, whatever – that would be 0.2% of the userbase’original ↗
13 Apr 2026
I find it bizarre that the AgeVerification (AV) industry says “platforms don’t want AV because they don’t want private data” – BUT civil society says “platforms DO want AV because they want private data”original ↗
13 Apr 2026
Trump posts graphic video of slaying to argue for stricter immigration policies | BBC Newsoriginal ↗
11 Apr 2026
In a X/Twitter post that garnered over 3.2 million impressions, EFF declares X is”…no longer where the fight is happening”original ↗
10 Apr 2026
A bug on the dark side of the Moonoriginal ↗
8 Apr 2026
The trial lawyers come for online free speech | Blaze Mediaoriginal ↗
6 Apr 2026
New Mexico’s Meta Ruling and Encryption | Schneier on Securityoriginal ↗
6 Apr 2026
Age Verification causing people to stop installing security updates on iPhoneoriginal ↗
3 Apr 2026
Australian eSafety: “It is a ‘dark pattern’ to permit people to 1/ amend mistakes 2/ be in control of information about themselves 3/ be obliged to validate abuse reports”original ↗
1 Apr 2026
The Timeless Fear of Corrupting the Youth | WSJoriginal ↗
28 Mar 2026
The Big Tech verdicts you’re cheering for are actually terrible for free speech | The Foundation for Individual Rights and Expressionoriginal ↗
27 Mar 2026
‘…all of the evidence submitted to “prove” Meta knew their product was harmful was internal safety research they were conducting to improve their moderation and detection’original ↗
27 Mar 2026
‘The Encryption Problem: Where “Design Liability” Leads’ | … IF YOU ARE CHEERING META LOSING 2X RECENT LAWSUITS YOU ARE SUPPORTING THE END OF ONLINE PRIVACYoriginal ↗
27 Mar 2026
[Europe] voted today to end chat monitoring 1.0. This ends an exception that was used, in particular, by US Big Tech companies to monitor billions of people’s private messages without suspicionoriginal ↗
26 Mar 2026
MEPs block tech firms from scanning for child sexual abuse material | POLITICOoriginal ↗
26 Mar 2026
I am very much looking at the Apple Age Verification (AV) approach as the least bad way to do something terribleoriginal ↗
26 Mar 2026
Remember that big win on ChatControl a couple of weeks ago? It turns out they didn’t like  the result and they want to vote on it again, TODAY. Sorry.original ↗
26 Mar 2026
This cybersecurity tweet from @SciTechgovuk / DSIT is getting *brigaded* by people pointing out how the UK Government is actively undermining cybersecurityoriginal ↗
26 Mar 2026
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