Tagged: surveillance

OpinionThe UK's Online Safety Act Just Made E2E Encryption Illegal

Ofcom quietly issued its first Section 121 notice this spring, the enforcement mechanism buried in the Online Safety Act that requires messaging platforms to scan content for specified material. There is no technical way to do that on an end-to-end encrypted channel without breaking the encryption. The law did not ban E2E directly. It banned the only way it can legally exist.

PoliticsCBDC Pilots Are Failing. That's Why They're Speeding Up.

Every major CBDC pilot over the last three years has produced the same result. Voluntary adoption is dismal. User demand is nonexistent. Merchants treat it as a compliance burden. Central banks have noticed. Their response is not to reconsider. Their response is to accelerate toward mandatory adoption before voluntary failure becomes politically untenable.

OpinionYour Face Is Now a Search Query

AI-powered surveillance went from science fiction to city infrastructure in under three years. Your face unlocks your phone, and now it unlocks your file in a police database. This is not a drill.

OpinionLightning Is Fast, But Is It Private?

Controlling just 2% of Lightning nodes is enough to deanonymize payments. As adoption accelerates, Lightning's privacy model deserves honest scrutiny.

OpinionChina's Digital Yuan Now Pays Interest. Bitcoin Doesn't Care.

China's digital yuan became the first interest-bearing CBDC on Jan 1. With 230M wallets, the e-CNY is no longer digital cash - it's programmable state-surveilled money.