This FTC Workshop Could Legitimize the Push for Online Digital ID Checks
December 9, 2025
The FTC’s January workshop could accelerate the shift from an open web to one that demands your ID at every click.
The FTC’s January workshop could accelerate the shift from an open web to one that demands your ID at every click.
A free society’s oldest instinct, distrust of concentrated power, has returned to Westminster in digital form.
The law fuses hacking, home entry, and AI into a single blueprint for dystopian modern policing.
Behind closed screens, the same officials pushing to weaken privacy laws are perfecting the art of vanishing conversations.
A judge’s demand for chat logs has turned discovery into surveillance, exposing how fragile digital intimacy really is.
Russia’s online world keeps shrinking as the government trades global access for tighter control at home.
The state’s new system could turn bureaucracy into automation, and consent into a checkbox no one really controls.
A new immigration filter asks not just what foreign tech workers can build, but what speech they’ve helped bury.
Proton Sheets keeps collaboration features while locking down sensitive data.
Missouri’s quiet rollout of its digital ID law has turned everyday browsing into a maze of checkpoints and privacy risks.
The room buzzed with moral urgency, but the real agenda was control disguised as compassion.
Julie Inman Grant warns of data predators while quietly building a system that feeds them.
A city becomes a testing ground for the uneasy fusion of public safety and algorithmic gaze.
A campaign to protect kids online turns into a blueprint for government-approved speech and surveillance.
Apple’s next move in India may redefine how far global tech firms will bend to government demands.
A policy designed to test its own limits now pretends those limits don’t exist.
A ban on WhatsApp would mark another step in Russia’s tightening grip on digital life.
A cloud-born office suite finds new life on the desktop, blending open-source simplicity with the comfort of working offline.
Meta’s proposal to move age checks to app stores would tighten Big Tech’s grip on digital identity, giving a handful of companies new power over who gets online.
Britain’s railways are turning into laboratories for algorithmic policing, where every commuter’s face becomes just another line of data in the state’s growing experiment with control.
A constitutional showdown that could redefine how Australians prove who they are just to speak online.
Missouri joins a growing list of states testing how much privacy people will trade for a filtered internet.
By disguising coercion as consent, the EU’s plan enlists tech companies as willing agents in its quiet expansion of digital surveillance.
A cozy corner for writers is turning into a TSA line for ideas.
The FTC’s January workshop could accelerate the shift from an open web to one that demands your ID at every click.
A free society’s oldest instinct, distrust of concentrated power, has returned to Westminster in digital form.
The law fuses hacking, home entry, and AI into a single blueprint for dystopian modern policing.
Behind closed screens, the same officials pushing to weaken privacy laws are perfecting the art of vanishing conversations.
A judge’s demand for chat logs has turned discovery into surveillance, exposing how fragile digital intimacy really is.
Russia’s online world keeps shrinking as the government trades global access for tighter control at home.
The state’s new system could turn bureaucracy into automation, and consent into a checkbox no one really controls.
A new immigration filter asks not just what foreign tech workers can build, but what speech they’ve helped bury.
Proton Sheets keeps collaboration features while locking down sensitive data.
Missouri’s quiet rollout of its digital ID law has turned everyday browsing into a maze of checkpoints and privacy risks.
The room buzzed with moral urgency, but the real agenda was control disguised as compassion.
Julie Inman Grant warns of data predators while quietly building a system that feeds them.
A city becomes a testing ground for the uneasy fusion of public safety and algorithmic gaze.
A campaign to protect kids online turns into a blueprint for government-approved speech and surveillance.
Apple’s next move in India may redefine how far global tech firms will bend to government demands.
A policy designed to test its own limits now pretends those limits don’t exist.
A ban on WhatsApp would mark another step in Russia’s tightening grip on digital life.
A cloud-born office suite finds new life on the desktop, blending open-source simplicity with the comfort of working offline.
Meta’s proposal to move age checks to app stores would tighten Big Tech’s grip on digital identity, giving a handful of companies new power over who gets online.
Britain’s railways are turning into laboratories for algorithmic policing, where every commuter’s face becomes just another line of data in the state’s growing experiment with control.
A constitutional showdown that could redefine how Australians prove who they are just to speak online.
Missouri joins a growing list of states testing how much privacy people will trade for a filtered internet.
By disguising coercion as consent, the EU’s plan enlists tech companies as willing agents in its quiet expansion of digital surveillance.
A cozy corner for writers is turning into a TSA line for ideas.