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Privacy Watch 2026
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Tracking the erosion of digital rights. We expose client-side scanning, legislative overreach, and the data brokers selling your life. Stay encrypted.
Age Verification trap shut:
🚫 US: Half the states now mandate "Digital ID" to access legal content.
🚫 UK: The Online Safety Act is actively blocking traffic.
🚫 EU: Rushing "Age Assurance" via the Digital Identity Wallet.

#Privacy #AgeVerification #Surveillance #EFF #DigitalID #KOSA #OnlineSafetyAct
Age Verification Threats Across the Globe: 2025 in Review
Age verification mandates won't magically keep young people safer online, but that has not stopped governments around the world spending 2025 implementing or attempting to introduce legislation requir...
www.eff.org
January 11, 2026 at 4:09 AM
The mask falls off Western "democracies".
A shocking plan: A total war on encryption, the normalization of client-side scanning, and the end of private communication as we know it.
Read the roadmap to the new panopticon here:

#Privacy #Encryption #Surveillance #E2EE #MassSurveillance #DigitalRights
Privacy will be under unprecedented attack in 2026 | Computer Weekly
The UK and Europe are ramping up opposition to encryption and stepping up surveillance of private communications. Here is what to expect this year.
www.computerweekly.com
January 11, 2026 at 3:41 AM