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Available reporting from media outlets and aggregators shows a range of estimates for arrests in the UK tied to online speech in 2024: major compilations reported roughly 9,700 arrests based on data f...
The available reporting shows the UK government is proposing a national digital ID that will be used for right-to-work and other checks, but ministers and civil‑liberties groups disagree sharply on wh...
In 2024 the available reporting shows large numbers of arrests for online communications offences but provides only scattered, case-based evidence about who was imprisoned; official datasets are incom...
Police custody data obtained and analysed by The Times and cited across parliamentary and civil-liberties reporting indicate roughly 12,000 arrests a year in recent years for communications or “online...
Yes — police in the UK are arresting people over social media activity, and recent reporting and parliamentary records show thousands of such arrests a year, but the raw numbers do not by themselves p...
U.S. lawmakers moved to legally block a retail CBDC by passing the Anti‑CBDC Surveillance State Act in the House, which prohibits the Federal Reserve from issuing, piloting or implementing a retail di...
Available reporting shows a concentrated use of a few communications and public‑order statutes in arrests for online speech in England in 2023: most coverage cites arrests under Section 127 of the Com...
The available reporting does not identify any *named military contractors* directly building the IT infrastructure for the proposed UK digital ID (“One Login” / “BritCard”); instead the public debate ...