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OpinionApr 19, 2026

The 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.

7 min read·uk, online-safety-act, encryption

OpinionApr 12, 2026

Your 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.

7 min read·privacy, surveillance, ai

OpinionApr 10, 2026

Signal Might Leave Europe. Nostr Can't - and That's the Point.

The EU's Chat Control law is pushing Signal to exit Europe. But Signal is a company with servers, employees, and a jurisdiction. Nostr is a protocol with none of those things. You can't regulate what you can't find.

7 min read·nostr, signal, chat-control