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The Defender’s Big Brother NewsWatch brings you the latest headlines related to governments’ abuse of power, including attacks on democracy, civil liberties and use of mass surveillance.

Austria was one of the only countries to introduce compulsory vaccination

A conservative evangelical group is suing President Biden in federal court to overturn his administration’s mask mandate for U.S. air travel.

Two democratic lawmakers are being criticized for promoting a poster that compared climate change to the terrorist attacks on Sept. 11.

In response to updated guidance from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, mask mandates in some of the last holdouts will finally be discarded as America seeks to emerge from the COVID-19 policies that have dominated political discourse for the last two years.

1,000 vehicles spark traffic near Capital.

Vaccine passport and masking requirements in New York City will be lifted on Monday, Mayor Eric Adams announced Friday, including the city's school mask mandate and vaccination requirements for restaurants, entertainment venues, and other public indoor spaces. 

Ontario’s chief medical officer of health says the province can anticipate the lifting of mandatory masking requirements by the end of March if the key public health indicators for COVID-19 continue to improve.

Alberta, Canada government plans to ban municipalities from enacting COVID-19 restrictions.

New York is lifting its statewide mask mandate for schoolchildren on March 2, after months of debate and demands from New Yorkers who have been fighting for their kids’ right to attend school without wearing a face covering.