Australia Orders Tech Giants to Enforce Age Verification Digital ID by December 10
September 8, 2025
A safety law that reads like a blueprint for a surveillance state.
A safety law that reads like a blueprint for a surveillance state.
Privacy concerns and antitrust fines collide with trade threats in a standoff over tech regulation.
A digital ID meant to streamline the state is running headfirst into the country’s constitutional past.
Age checks for chatbots might sound parental, but they flirt with surveillance-state mechanics.
Roblox’s age checks are pitched as child safety tools but double as a blueprint for an internet where logging on increasingly means showing ID.
An age-check system built to shield minors ends up exposing adults in granular digital detail.
Privacy settings were more like polite suggestions than actual boundaries.
Caught between draconian laws and their commitment to user privacy, Dreamwidth is choosing principle over profit.
UK revives digital ID plan under Keir Starmer amid illegal immigration pressure, echoing Tony Blair-era surveillance concerns.
A rail upgrade in name, a surveillance system in practice, logging movements with every mile.
False positives flood the system, but the EU still wants to make the scan permanent and mandatory.
A state digital ID law is now meeting the very structure of decentralized internet.
Local saves become legacy as Microsoft nudges Word users into the cloud with every new document.
Android’s last big selling point, the freedom to install whatever you want from who you want, may soon run through a single Google checkpoint.
The justices drew a bright line through the data stream, declaring that your pocket-sized diary deserves more respect than a rummaged junk drawer.
The University tracked protestors like they were logged-in devices, not dissenting students.
A state-mandated shortcut to people’s home screen, whether they want it or not.
Tech giants can’t claim end-to-end security while building doors for foreign governments.
A single state law just forced one of the internet’s most privacy-focused platforms to choose between its principles and its users.
The bill’s sprint through Brazil’s Congress reveals more about power than protection.
Dodging digital ID checks could soon come down to a DNS setting instead of a passport photo.
The fight over California’s child safety law is turning into a referendum on the future of online anonymity and free expression.
Behavioral profiling now trails you from video views to the search box.
Coding KYC into smart contracts threatens to turn permissionless finance into a gated system.
A safety law that reads like a blueprint for a surveillance state.
Privacy concerns and antitrust fines collide with trade threats in a standoff over tech regulation.
A digital ID meant to streamline the state is running headfirst into the country’s constitutional past.
Age checks for chatbots might sound parental, but they flirt with surveillance-state mechanics.
Roblox’s age checks are pitched as child safety tools but double as a blueprint for an internet where logging on increasingly means showing ID.
An age-check system built to shield minors ends up exposing adults in granular digital detail.
Privacy settings were more like polite suggestions than actual boundaries.
Caught between draconian laws and their commitment to user privacy, Dreamwidth is choosing principle over profit.
UK revives digital ID plan under Keir Starmer amid illegal immigration pressure, echoing Tony Blair-era surveillance concerns.
A rail upgrade in name, a surveillance system in practice, logging movements with every mile.
False positives flood the system, but the EU still wants to make the scan permanent and mandatory.
A state digital ID law is now meeting the very structure of decentralized internet.
Local saves become legacy as Microsoft nudges Word users into the cloud with every new document.
Android’s last big selling point, the freedom to install whatever you want from who you want, may soon run through a single Google checkpoint.
The justices drew a bright line through the data stream, declaring that your pocket-sized diary deserves more respect than a rummaged junk drawer.
The University tracked protestors like they were logged-in devices, not dissenting students.
A state-mandated shortcut to people’s home screen, whether they want it or not.
Tech giants can’t claim end-to-end security while building doors for foreign governments.
A single state law just forced one of the internet’s most privacy-focused platforms to choose between its principles and its users.
The bill’s sprint through Brazil’s Congress reveals more about power than protection.
Dodging digital ID checks could soon come down to a DNS setting instead of a passport photo.
The fight over California’s child safety law is turning into a referendum on the future of online anonymity and free expression.
Behavioral profiling now trails you from video views to the search box.
Coding KYC into smart contracts threatens to turn permissionless finance into a gated system.
