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Researchers and journalists document multiple practical workarounds to Discord’s age-gating—VPNs, in‑game photo tricks and third‑party code—while experts warn that such bypasses expose platforms to le...
There are documented cases where law enforcement used AI-chat logs or AI-related activity as leads in CSAM investigations, and prosecutors have charged people for creating or possessing AI-generated C...
A clear majority of Americans currently view ICE unfavorably: recent national polls show roughly half to a majority disapproving of how the agency operates, and support for protests or abolition has j...
DuckDuckGo’s browsers and extensions implement active fingerprinting protections: they override many browser APIs to return no or less-useful data and offer features like cookie protection, tracker bl...
As of 2025, Tor Browser, Firefox (with strict settings), Brave, and Safari are the desktop browsers most frequently cited as offering built‑in defenses against fingerprinting; Tor provides the stronge...
Yes—reporting documents that ICE has acquired and deployed a range of technologies that can identify people with facial-recognition tools and extend surveillance into communities via location and biom...
Law enforcement does prosecute people linked to illegal activity on Tor, but prosecutions usually follow investigative work that links a person to crimes—often via operational mistakes, surveillance o...
Viewing or possessing child sexual abuse material (CSAM) is treated as a crime in U.S. law and by major advocacy groups: federal statutes and state laws make creation, possession, or distribution of C...
In 2025 independent testing and specialist guides repeatedly identify Tor, Brave, and Firefox (and Firefox forks like LibreWolf) as the strongest mainstream options for fingerprint and tracker resista...
Internet service providers (ISPs log which subscriber received which public IP address at what time, but retention practices are inconsistent: some carriers keep those DHCP/IP-assignment logs for only...
DuckDuckGo’s search results and its Smarter Encryption feature focus on enforcing HTTPS (the TLS-encrypted HTTP protocol) by maintaining and using a large, continuously generated list of sites that su...
DuckDuckGo publicly denies that it fingerprints users to track them, while also saying it uses and overrides browser APIs to protect privacy—actions that can both reduce some fingerprinting and create...
Federal law does not create a single, bright‑line ban on Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) using drones over neighborhoods, but a patchwork of constraints—airspace safety rules enforced by the...
Viewing, downloading and distributing child sexual abuse material (CSAM) trigger different legal exposures across jurisdictions: production and distribution are treated as the most serious offenses wi...
Major ISPs and DNS providers follow a patchwork of practices: some jurisdictions (e.g., EU, Australia) have mandatory retention laws requiring ISPs to store connection metadata for fixed periods, whil...
Federal datasets and FOIA-derived releases show ICE’s enforcement footprint grew dramatically in 2024–2025 compared with the previous decade, shifting from mostly jail-based, case-specific interior ar...
Police and prosecutors face an enormous backlog: platforms and NCMEC reported millions of CSAM reports (Google alone reported over one million in six months) and law enforcement says less than 1% of r...
ISPs in the U.S. routinely collect extensive customer data — including web-browsing records, device and app usage, real‑time location, and demographic inferences — and often share or monetize those da...
A wave of state laws since 2022 has produced a patchwork of age‑verification mandates for adult websites; trade groups and civil‑liberties advocates say roughly half the states now require some form o...
Federal law treats child sexual abuse material (CSAM) as evidence of child sexual abuse and criminalizes production, distribution, solicitation and possession under multiple statutes; Congress has rec...