Reclaim The Net

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| People are handing over their DNA, their scans, their health records to        |
| research projects, AI wellness apps, genetic testing kits. UK Biobank alone    |
| has leaked 198 times in a year. Once that data is out, it identifies your kids |
| and siblings forever and you can't take it back.                               |
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| https://reclaimthenet.org/uk-biobank-failures-expose-the-permanent-cost-of-sha |
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| Eurail demanded passport numbers to sell train tickets. Now 308,777 of those   |
| passports are on the dark web, and victims are paying out of pocket to replace |
| them. Every mandatory ID scheme rests on this same fantasy: that the database  |
| won't get breached. They always do.                                            |
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| https://reclaimthenet.org/the-eurail-breach-and-the-digital-id-problem         |
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| Tokyo just sent a guy to prison for 18 months because his website published    |
| movie reviews and summaries that contained spoilers. He didn't even write them |
| himself, he just ran the site. The studios decided the descriptions were too   |
| thorough and the court agreed. Every entertainment writer in Japan is now      |
| guessing where the line is.                                                    |
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| https://reclaimthenet.org/japan-jails-a-man-for-publishing-movie-spoilers      |
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| Turkey is moving to ban anonymous VPNs. Approved providers must log everything |
| and hand it over.                                                              |
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| Unapproved means illegal. Erdoğan is turning the tool Turks use to escape      |
| surveillance into another surveillance pipe.                                   |
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| https://reclaimthenet.org/turkey-to-ban-anonymous-vpns                         |
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| France's government ID portal just lost up to 19 million records. Names, DOBs, |
| addresses, phone numbers, logins. A third of the country, sitting in a         |
| criminal forum listing. This is the same government lobbying for encryption    |
| backdoors and mandatory digital ID. They can't protect what they already have. |
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| https://reclaimthenet.org/france-titres-data-breach-centralized-digital-identi |
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| Massie and Boebert's new bill effectively kills the third-party doctrine. No   |
| more warrantless access to your bank records, your browsing history, your      |
| location data just because it sits on a corporate server.                      |
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| The terms of service can't consent to surveillance on your behalf.             |
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| Worth reading in full.                                                         |
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| https://reclaimthenet.org/surveillance-accountability-act                      |
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| California wants mandatory age verification for every chatbot user.            |
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| ...Every Californian, ID'd by the state before they can talk to an AI.         |
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| The bill even defines what tone of voice is legal for someone who has not      |
| proven themselves to be an adult.                                              |
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| One of the authors calls it child protection. It's a digital ID speech regime. |
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| https://reclaimthenet.org/california-lawmakers-advance-bills-to-impose-ai-chat |
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| A federal judge blocked Arkansas Act 900, a law that would have forced         |
| platforms to ID visitors, build parental surveillance dashboards, and kill     |
| notifications overnight. The state called it child safety. The judge called it |
| unconstitutional and blocked it a day before it took effect.                   |
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| https://reclaimthenet.org/arkansas-act-900-blocked-first-amendment             |
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| DOJ Blocks France’s X Probe, Citing First Amendment                            |
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| https://reclaimthenet.org/doj-blocks-frances-x-probe-citing-first-amendment    |
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| "Harvest now, decrypt later." Intelligence agencies are already hoarding       |
| encrypted files, betting quantum computers will crack them in ten years. Your  |
| medical records, legal docs, everything in Google Drive. Tuta Drive just       |
| launched to fix this.                                                          |
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| https://reclaimthenet.org/tuta-launches-tuta-drive                             |
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| Three of the world's biggest ad agencies just settled with the FTC over        |
| colluding to defund publishers they didn't like. Dentsu, GroupM, Publicis. $81 |
| billion in ad-buying power agreeing on which outlets get starved. They called  |
| it "brand safety." It was a blacklist.                                         |
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| https://reclaimthenet.org/ftc-ad-collusion-settlement                          |
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| California just advanced a bill letting immigration nonprofit employees demand |
| their faces and info be scrubbed from the internet. $4,000 minimum fine for    |
| journalists who don't comply. No exemption for reporters. It's already being   |
| called the "Stop Nick Shirley Act." Prior restraint is the exact thing the     |
| First Amendment was written to prevent...                                      |
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| https://reclaimthenet.org/california-ab-2624-stop-nick-shirley-act             |
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| Turkey is about to tie every social media account to a national ID number.     |
| Miss the three-month window and the account gets shut down. Justice Minister   |
| Gürlek says social media is "definitely not a space for freedom." The system   |
| he's building proves it.                                                       |
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| https://reclaimthenet.org/turkey-to-require-national-id-for-social-media-accou |
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| A San Francisco judge just locked a man out of ChatGPT without ever hearing    |
| from him, and the First Amendment question went unasked.                       |
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| https://reclaimthenet.org/a-court-banned-a-man-from-chatgpt-no-one-asked-if-th |
| ats-constitutional                                                             |
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| Von der Leyen says the EU's new age verification app will "shield children."   |
| What it actually does: routes every adult through a government ID check to use |
| the internet. She compared it to the COVID pass. That's not reassuring.        |
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| https://reclaimthenet.org/eu-launches-age-verification-app                     |
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| Britain has developed a very specific institutional reflex. When its agencies  |
| fail catastrophically, the state responds by expanding surveillance of the     |
| general population.                                                            |
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| When the public expresses anger about those failures, the state responds by    |
| censoring the expression of that anger.                                        |
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| UK Southport Inquiry Pushes Mass Surveillance and VPN Restrictions             |
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| https://reclaimthenet.org/southport-inquiry-state-failures-surveillance-expans |
| ion-uk                                                                         |
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| Singapore gamers are being locked out of games they already own unless they    |
| hand Microsoft a face scan, a passport, or their national ID. Google went      |
| further: its "age estimation" watches your YouTube habits and search history   |
| to guess how old you are. They call it child safety. The result is a biometric |
| toll booth between you and your own library.                                   |
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| https://reclaimthenet.org/singapore-xbox-age-id-checks                         |
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| Massachusetts House Passes Social Media Age Verification Digital ID Bill       |
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| https://reclaimthenet.org/massachusetts-house-passes-social-media-age-verifica |
| tion-digital-id-bill                                                           |
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| Reno Police Sued After Wrongful Arrest Based on Facial Recognition Errors      |
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| https://reclaimthenet.org/reno-police-sued-after-wrongful-arrest-based-on-faci |
| al-recognition-errors                                                          |
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| xAI Sues Colorado to Block AI Speech Regulation on First Amendment Grounds     |
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| https://reclaimthenet.org/xai-sues-colorado-to-block-ai-speech-regulation-on-f |
| irst-amendment-grounds                                                         |
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| How UK Regulator Ofcom Quietly Bypassed International Law to Police American   |
| Speech                                                                         |
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| https://reclaimthenet.org/ofcom-bypassed-us-treaty-to-send-197-censorship-orde |
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| Alberta Bill Would Fine Political Deepfakes $10,000 Without Satire Exemptions  |
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| https://reclaimthenet.org/alberta-bill-23-political-deepfake-fines-no-satire-e |
| xemption                                                                       |
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| Brazil’s Justice Moraes Ordered Global Takedowns of American Users’ Speech,    |
| House Report Reveals                                                           |
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| https://reclaimthenet.org/moraes-ordered-global-takedowns-of-american-users-sp |
| eech                                                                           |
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| UK Foreign Affairs Committee Calls for Government Agency to Police Online      |
| “Disinformation”                                                               |
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| https://reclaimthenet.org/uk-disinformation-center-proposal                    |
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| OkCupid Gave 3M Users’ Photos to AI Firm, FTC Says                             |
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| https://reclaimthenet.org/okcupid-gave-3m-users-photos-to-ai-firm-ftc-says     |
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| US & EU Negotiate Biometric Data-Sharing Deal                                  |
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| https://reclaimthenet.org/us-eu-negotiate-biometric-data-sharing-deal          |
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| Meta To Comply With Florida Age Verification Digital ID Law                    |
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| https://reclaimthenet.org/meta-to-comply-with-florida-age-verification-digital |
| -id-law                                                                        |
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| Apple Removes Bitchat from China App Store at Cyberspace Administration Order  |
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| https://reclaimthenet.org/apple-removes-bitchat-from-china-app-store           |
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| Kiwi Farms Challenges DMCA Subpoenas as Tools to Unmask Anonymous Speech       |
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| https://reclaimthenet.org/kiwi-farms-dmca-subpoena-anonymous-speech-case       |
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| Illinois Police Fight Bill to Ban Facial Recognition Use                       |
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| https://reclaimthenet.org/illinois-police-fight-bill-to-ban-facial-recognition |
| -use                                                                           |
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