Samsung Throws Its Support Behind Digital ID
May 29, 2026
Samsung is the last of the big three to ask for your face, which is exactly how a demand becomes a default.
Samsung is the last of the big three to ask for your face, which is exactly how a demand becomes a default.
Texas drew its age line at the app store door and everyone has to show ID to get through it.
Minnesota just mandated that platforms spy on every user to figure out which ones are kids.
The justices let an addiction case proceed and buried inside it is the end of logging on as a stranger.
The numbers are small but for the first time the friction of switching looks cheaper to users than the cost of staying.
California fixed the most obvious problem with its age-tracking law but replaced it with a version that follows you across the entire internet.
Texas is using a child safety lawsuit to try to end anonymous access to Discord entirely.
The regulators who would decide what counts as “reliable” news are appointed through a chain that starts with the same politicians whose coverage they’d be curating.
End-to-end encrypted, with asterisks nobody reads.
Somewhere in Westminster a whiteboard has “free speech = tobacco” written on it with three exclamation marks.
A Brazilian judge who ordered an American platform shut down for refusing to censor his own critics now has 21 days to explain himself to a Florida court.
The bill is in real trouble when even Google, a company that built its empire on knowing everything about you, thinks a government’s surveillance plan goes too far.
Five tech giants just agreed to show a government regulator their homework before turning it in, even though the law never said they had to.
A Texas town used a bomb-threat law to jail a mom who posted about brown water the city later admitted was undrinkable.
Hawaii’s taxpayers now owe six figures because their state tried to make certain memes illegal.
A shorebird biologist’s firing over a private Instagram post turned into one of the sharpest federal tests of government employee speech rights in years.
The DOJ’s legal theory is that clicking “I Agree” on a standard app privacy policy means you volunteered to be identified by the federal government.
A bill sold as child protection builds the legal framework for surveilling every user in the state.
The incoming Ofcom chair’s to-do list includes treating VPNs as obstacles, demanding new powers over YouTube, and asking the Treasury for a bigger budget.
The architect of Germany’s original internet censorship law now wants the whole continent to stop worrying and learn to love the delete button.
Apple and Google would become the state-appointed gatekeepers of every Coloradan’s age data and their lobbyists are pushing hard for the privilege.
The government posted “use a VPN” the same week two VPN companies threatened to leave rather than comply with a new surveillance bill.
The lawsuit lands as facial recognition quietly becomes the price of admission at stadiums, airports, and more.
Six years later, the legal vacuum that made domestic surveillance possible hasn’t moved an inch.
Samsung is the last of the big three to ask for your face, which is exactly how a demand becomes a default.
Texas drew its age line at the app store door and everyone has to show ID to get through it.
Minnesota just mandated that platforms spy on every user to figure out which ones are kids.
The justices let an addiction case proceed and buried inside it is the end of logging on as a stranger.
The numbers are small but for the first time the friction of switching looks cheaper to users than the cost of staying.
California fixed the most obvious problem with its age-tracking law but replaced it with a version that follows you across the entire internet.
Texas is using a child safety lawsuit to try to end anonymous access to Discord entirely.
The regulators who would decide what counts as “reliable” news are appointed through a chain that starts with the same politicians whose coverage they’d be curating.
End-to-end encrypted, with asterisks nobody reads.
Somewhere in Westminster a whiteboard has “free speech = tobacco” written on it with three exclamation marks.
A Brazilian judge who ordered an American platform shut down for refusing to censor his own critics now has 21 days to explain himself to a Florida court.
The bill is in real trouble when even Google, a company that built its empire on knowing everything about you, thinks a government’s surveillance plan goes too far.
Five tech giants just agreed to show a government regulator their homework before turning it in, even though the law never said they had to.
A Texas town used a bomb-threat law to jail a mom who posted about brown water the city later admitted was undrinkable.
Hawaii’s taxpayers now owe six figures because their state tried to make certain memes illegal.
A shorebird biologist’s firing over a private Instagram post turned into one of the sharpest federal tests of government employee speech rights in years.
The DOJ’s legal theory is that clicking “I Agree” on a standard app privacy policy means you volunteered to be identified by the federal government.
A bill sold as child protection builds the legal framework for surveilling every user in the state.
The incoming Ofcom chair’s to-do list includes treating VPNs as obstacles, demanding new powers over YouTube, and asking the Treasury for a bigger budget.
The architect of Germany’s original internet censorship law now wants the whole continent to stop worrying and learn to love the delete button.
Apple and Google would become the state-appointed gatekeepers of every Coloradan’s age data and their lobbyists are pushing hard for the privilege.
The government posted “use a VPN” the same week two VPN companies threatened to leave rather than comply with a new surveillance bill.
The lawsuit lands as facial recognition quietly becomes the price of admission at stadiums, airports, and more.
Six years later, the legal vacuum that made domestic surveillance possible hasn’t moved an inch.