Ken Macon
Ken is a teacher and contributor who focuses on researching and reporting on mass surveillance and privacy rights across the world. [email protected]
EU Pushes Age Verification App for All States
Brussels wants every member state shipping its age verification app by year’s end, three months after a security researcher cracked it in under two minutes.
Brussels Wants Google’s Search Data
Brussels wants the data shared at the same speed Google reads it itself, to recipients the proposal hasn’t finished naming.
Lawton Police Deploy Clearview AI Facial Recognition Tech
Lawton, OK, just gave twenty-six officers the keys to a database its residents never agreed to join.
UK Biobank Failures Expose the Permanent Cost of Sharing Genetic and Medical Records
The promise of secure custodianship has failed 198 times in eleven months, and the volunteers who signed up in 2006 cannot take their DNA back.
When a Train Ticket Costs Your Passport: The Eurail Breach and the Digital ID Problem
The stolen files include everything an identity thief would want and nothing Eurail ever needed to sell a rail ticket.
France’s ID Portal Hacked: 19 Million Records Up for Sale
The breach puts roughly a third of France’s population on a criminal forum just as the government lobbies for mandatory digital IDs.
Illinois House Bill Would Force Operating Systems To Check Your Age
Illinois is one Senate vote away from making every laptop in the state card you at setup.
Sam Altman’s World ID Expands Biometric Identity Checks
Eighteen million scanned irises in, the company has found its real business model: charging advertisers a premium for verified eyeballs.
How the KYC Mandate Became a Biometric Heist
The same KYC mandates designed to stop money laundering now supply the face scans that enable it.
Brussels’ New Age Verification App: Hacked in Two Minutes
Governments are racing to mandate digital ID systems that turn every citizen’s passport into another entry on the next breach notification.
Edmonton Police Turned Body Cameras Into Facial Recognition Surveillance Tools
The same technology sold to hold police accountable now scans 7,000 faces a day without asking anyone’s permission.
EU Launches Age Verification App
The Commission built the app on the same architecture as its planned continental digital identity wallet. That’s not a coincidence.