The bill’s child safety framing is doing a lot of work to normalize what is, in practice, a government-linked identity layer baked into every device you own before you open a single app.
The message that leaves your keyboard is not the message that arrives.
The same government that already bars under-16s from social media is now coming for AI chatbots, app stores, and search engines.
The bills arrive dressed as child protection but leave behind a mandate to build the largest ID grab in American consumer history.
TikTok built a surveillance-ready messaging system and called it a safety feature.
The law was written before the missiles arrived, but its timing couldn’t be more useful for a government that would prefer its residents experience a war only through official channels.
Google lost in court, lost on appeal, lost at the Supreme Court, and is now describing the result as something it chose to do.
The consultation closes in May, but Parliament already handed ministers the power to act in February.
A sarcastic joke is now the centerpiece of a First Amendment case that could add to precedent about how members of Congress use their official social media accounts.
The people who spent their careers building the security systems governments want to exploit for age verification have finally had enough.
The AI era’s defining feature isn’t intelligence; it’s installation without asking.
Virginia set the government as the default gatekeeper of how long children can read, watch, and talk online, and a federal judge found that unconstitutional before the law ever took effect.
In a different timeline, wiring an age-surveillance layer into the boot sequence of every computing device in California is an idea that would have died in committee.
Two years of surveillance, £600,000 spent, and the program ended not because anyone asked if it was wrong, but because the data was garbage.
Mexico is six months away from building a surveillance system that knows the face behind every phone call in the country.
Simons was accused of running a thinktank dedicated to fighting “disinformation,” then used a government intelligence body to spread it.
The agency charged with enforcing the law that restricts children’s data collection just carved out an exception large enough to swallow the law itself.
Britain’s demand that Apple build a backdoor for everyone on earth, then quietly reframe it as a domestic matter after Washington pushed back, is the kind of legal gymnastics that makes intelligence lawyers nervous on both sides of the Atlantic.
The launch puts a swipeable, short-form feed on every major platform just as TikTok’s year of turbulence has left creators actively looking for somewhere else to go.
The man who called gender ideology education “child abuse” now owes $750,000 for saying so; not in a courtroom, but in a quasi-judicial hearing where no jury decided and no criminal standard applied.
Google is turning sideloading from a right into a permission slip, and the open-source community has until September to convince it otherwise.
Twitch is asking streamers to hand over a government ID and selfie to a controversial third-party service to collect money they’ve already earned.
The screen Apple called an “error” revealed exactly how the company plans to use your credit history, account age, and payment data to decide what you’re allowed to download.
The company selling privacy as a feature is now running age screening on 18+ app downloads without explaining what data makes that determination possible.
The bill’s child safety framing is doing a lot of work to normalize what is, in practice, a government-linked identity layer baked into every device you own before you open a single app.
The message that leaves your keyboard is not the message that arrives.
The same government that already bars under-16s from social media is now coming for AI chatbots, app stores, and search engines.
The bills arrive dressed as child protection but leave behind a mandate to build the largest ID grab in American consumer history.
TikTok built a surveillance-ready messaging system and called it a safety feature.
The law was written before the missiles arrived, but its timing couldn’t be more useful for a government that would prefer its residents experience a war only through official channels.
Google lost in court, lost on appeal, lost at the Supreme Court, and is now describing the result as something it chose to do.
The consultation closes in May, but Parliament already handed ministers the power to act in February.
A sarcastic joke is now the centerpiece of a First Amendment case that could add to precedent about how members of Congress use their official social media accounts.
The people who spent their careers building the security systems governments want to exploit for age verification have finally had enough.
The AI era’s defining feature isn’t intelligence; it’s installation without asking.
Virginia set the government as the default gatekeeper of how long children can read, watch, and talk online, and a federal judge found that unconstitutional before the law ever took effect.
In a different timeline, wiring an age-surveillance layer into the boot sequence of every computing device in California is an idea that would have died in committee.
Two years of surveillance, £600,000 spent, and the program ended not because anyone asked if it was wrong, but because the data was garbage.
Mexico is six months away from building a surveillance system that knows the face behind every phone call in the country.
Simons was accused of running a thinktank dedicated to fighting “disinformation,” then used a government intelligence body to spread it.
The agency charged with enforcing the law that restricts children’s data collection just carved out an exception large enough to swallow the law itself.
Britain’s demand that Apple build a backdoor for everyone on earth, then quietly reframe it as a domestic matter after Washington pushed back, is the kind of legal gymnastics that makes intelligence lawyers nervous on both sides of the Atlantic.
The launch puts a swipeable, short-form feed on every major platform just as TikTok’s year of turbulence has left creators actively looking for somewhere else to go.
The man who called gender ideology education “child abuse” now owes $750,000 for saying so; not in a courtroom, but in a quasi-judicial hearing where no jury decided and no criminal standard applied.
Google is turning sideloading from a right into a permission slip, and the open-source community has until September to convince it otherwise.
Twitch is asking streamers to hand over a government ID and selfie to a controversial third-party service to collect money they’ve already earned.
The screen Apple called an “error” revealed exactly how the company plans to use your credit history, account age, and payment data to decide what you’re allowed to download.
The company selling privacy as a feature is now running age screening on 18+ app downloads without explaining what data makes that determination possible.
