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View More NewsSubscribe to the Free Future NewsletterOr get immediate notifications of new posts via SubstackFree Future home I’ve been writing in recent months about how digital identity systems are potentially disastrous for privacy and how the state of Utah is being uniquely thoughtful in its approach to the technology. But Utah seems to be taking an interesting approach to privacy in ways that go beyond the digital ID issue. An example is the role it has created for a state chief privacy officer (CPO). Though Utah is not always good on privacy — its commercial privacy law is one of the…
from the prepare-for-everything-to-get-very-stupid-and-racist dept You might recall how the press and a bipartisan coalition of lawmakers suffered a four-year embolism about the purported privacy and national security threat of TikTok, before “fixing” the problem by ultimately offloading TikTok to Trump’s billionaire friends. You know, the exact sort of authoritarian-friendly people keen on doing everything critics had previously accused ByteDance and the Chinese of. The politics, policy, and press coverage of that entire saga were a profound embarrassment. And it’s hard to think of a bigger tech policy own goal by Democrats anytime in the last half century. Countless news outlets…
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I’ve often used the term “social panic” to describe the unmarked-graves claims that swept through Canada in 2021. For reasons described below, the term feels inadequate. But I can’t think of any word or phrase that better captures the spasm of manic self-denigration that unfolded following the purported discovery of 215 dead children (some “believed to be as young as three years old,” gullible reporters told us) on the grounds of a former Indigenous residential school in Kamloops, British Columbia.Those claims, originally announced by Kamloops First Nation Chief Rosanne Casimir, set off a frenzied rhetorical bidding war among pundits and…
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Russia’s lawmakers moved the country closer to its first comprehensive crypto market framework after completing final readings on a bill that would regulate digital…
Bitcoin held near $66,300 on Wednesday, consolidating a two-week high, as the semiconductor rally that has driven crypto all month extended into a second…
Crypto companies already licensed under the European Union’s Markets in Crypto-Assets Regulation (MiCA) could still exit the market as compliance costs mount, according to…
Bloomberg Law confirmed what we already knew: Judge Betsy is Judge Ross (you see what I did there). Eleanor Ross is the federal district…
Hyperliquid’s SPACEX-USDH perpetual contract suffered a violent flash crash on Thursday afternoon, plunging from an open of $2,277 to a low of $1,254, a…
May 28, 2026 – P2P.org, a blockchain infrastructure provider operating validators across 40+ proof-of-stake networks since 2018, today launched Syncro Data Stream, a real-time blockchain…
In brief A Google employee was charged over alleged Polymarket trades using private data. The CFTC also filed a civil case seeking penalties and…
In the rush to block young people from certain parts of the internet, lawmakers are creating a privacy and security nightmare for everyone. This…
from the miserable-spray-tanned-fuckwit dept Poll everyone you can. Even the most MAGA never dreamed up this scenario. There’s no single-issue voter whose kink is…
After a woman gave birth in a New York City courtroom earlier this month, New York lawmakers are pushing for anti-shackling bills that would…
Sui network, a layer 1 blockchain developed by Mysten Labs, is experiencing a network outage on Thursday after the project said its mainnet had…