The UK government’s recent digital ID consultation contains a detail that should have triggered far more alarm than it did. Ministers are proposing a national identity system built around a biometric image […]
Essex Police has paused its use of live facial recognition after a Cambridge study found the system was statistically more likely to correctly identify black people than other ethnic groups, and more […]
For years, debates over hate speech laws have been framed as moral disputes about civility and protection. Increasingly, however, they are becoming legal and political battles over the limits of “free” expression […]
The US Department of Defense is considering blacklisting Anthropic — one of America’s leading AI companies, and the creator of the Claude large language model — after it refused to let the […]
On Tuesday, February 10th, the European Parliament moved the digital euro one step closer to reality, backing amendments that support a push by the European Central Bank (ECB) for a central bank digital […]
Yesterday, I published the article “It Finally Happened: Digital Currency Act is Now Law in US“, repeating claims that a new piece of legislation had taken effect and fundamentally altered financial privacy […]
On 5 February, the battle over online free speech took a decisive international turn. In a warning aimed squarely at European regulators, US lawmakers accused the EU of exporting censorship to American […]