Newsom Approves New Tech Rules: Social Media Warnings, Chatbot Surveillance, Age Verification
October 14, 2025
What begins as child protection ends as an unprecedented mandate to tag, track, and watch every digital move.
What begins as child protection ends as an unprecedented mandate to tag, track, and watch every digital move.
Apple and Google brace for a privacy tradeoff as Texas turns app downloads into identity checkpoints.
The move from watching crowds to identifying individuals is no longer hypothetical in Hong Kong.
A judge just told the government that emailing censorship demands have no legal authority.
The Canadian government wants the power to disappear your internet access with no judge, no warrant, no warning.
The proposed rules would force open-source coders into the role of financial gatekeepers.
New York’s lawsuit drills into tech giants’ negligence, but the real endgame could be a future where online anonymity is collateral damage.
The regulator is acting as if UK law governs platforms that exist entirely outside its borders.
Compulsory age checks mark a quiet but seismic move toward digital identity becoming the price of admission online.
Retailers must now disclose when personal data shapes the prices customers see.
Starmer’s digital ID push is already stretching beyond job checks, edging toward a future where even teenagers are logged into the system before they’ve left school.
A single click could soon silence the data brokers lurking behind every scroll and search.
A birthday lament turns manifesto as Durov warns of a vanishing digital frontier.
Google shrugs off anonymity concerns with a smirk and a shrug, offering little more than vague reassurances.
A decade-long dragnet of household energy use meets its match in a courtroom siding with privacy over profiling.
Critics warn the EU’s Digital Services Act could transform online regulation into a continent-wide system of state-sanctioned speech control.
YouTube’s forgiveness comes with fine print.
Turning platforms into ID checkpoints makes data breaches a feature, not a bug.
AltStore’s next act is less about beating Apple and more about building its own internet.
A bid for independence in an online economy increasingly shaped by platform gatekeepers.
Government pressure takes center stage as lawmakers clash over censorship, comedy, and the Constitution.
The senator’s sights are set against a digital speech crackdown he says is cloaked in national security.
A courtroom fight over Roblox could reshape how Americans prove who they are every time they log on.
The walls are closing in for anyone still trying to set up Windows without a leash.
What begins as child protection ends as an unprecedented mandate to tag, track, and watch every digital move.
Apple and Google brace for a privacy tradeoff as Texas turns app downloads into identity checkpoints.
The move from watching crowds to identifying individuals is no longer hypothetical in Hong Kong.
A judge just told the government that emailing censorship demands have no legal authority.
The Canadian government wants the power to disappear your internet access with no judge, no warrant, no warning.
The proposed rules would force open-source coders into the role of financial gatekeepers.
New York’s lawsuit drills into tech giants’ negligence, but the real endgame could be a future where online anonymity is collateral damage.
The regulator is acting as if UK law governs platforms that exist entirely outside its borders.
Compulsory age checks mark a quiet but seismic move toward digital identity becoming the price of admission online.
Retailers must now disclose when personal data shapes the prices customers see.
Starmer’s digital ID push is already stretching beyond job checks, edging toward a future where even teenagers are logged into the system before they’ve left school.
A single click could soon silence the data brokers lurking behind every scroll and search.
A birthday lament turns manifesto as Durov warns of a vanishing digital frontier.
Google shrugs off anonymity concerns with a smirk and a shrug, offering little more than vague reassurances.
A decade-long dragnet of household energy use meets its match in a courtroom siding with privacy over profiling.
Critics warn the EU’s Digital Services Act could transform online regulation into a continent-wide system of state-sanctioned speech control.
YouTube’s forgiveness comes with fine print.
Turning platforms into ID checkpoints makes data breaches a feature, not a bug.
AltStore’s next act is less about beating Apple and more about building its own internet.
A bid for independence in an online economy increasingly shaped by platform gatekeepers.
Government pressure takes center stage as lawmakers clash over censorship, comedy, and the Constitution.
The senator’s sights are set against a digital speech crackdown he says is cloaked in national security.
A courtroom fight over Roblox could reshape how Americans prove who they are every time they log on.
The walls are closing in for anyone still trying to set up Windows without a leash.