OpenAI Adopts User Monitoring, Digital ID Verification
September 17, 2025
The internet’s lasting stronghold of anonymity is being dismantled in the name of safety.
The internet’s lasting stronghold of anonymity is being dismantled in the name of safety.
The decision cements a high bar for public figures trying to fight back against media characterization.
A handshake in Dubai signals a future where identity and payments merge into a single digital layer.
A federal digital ID watchdog could soon decide how anonymous you’re allowed to be online.
Bondi’s rhetoric turns a legal non-category into a political weapon.
Entire neighborhoods of the internet are going dark just so LaLiga can keep pirated streams off your screen.
ACMA’s push to revive fact-checking ties signals growing state pressure on tech platforms.
Even the privacy-first brands play bouncer when the right acronym knocks.
The bills pit mental health urgency against the right to private digital conversations.
Trump’s tour is reportedly set to double as a rebuke of Britain’s approach to online expression.
A face in the crowd is all it takes to be caught in the dragnet of a digital police state.
Google’s monopoly defense unravels as judges uphold injunctions.
The State Department’s intervention marks a new phase in America’s resistance to Europe’s creeping speech controls.
The fight over SB 976 now moves from the courtroom to the attorney general’s rulebook.
It’s a major step for Tor on mobile, even if the software is still rough around the edges.
Anonymous speech is being traded for compliance, one state law at a time.
The louder the calls to make AI safer, the more they sound like demands for police access and identity checks.
Mullvad wraps WireGuard in QUIC to make VPN traffic blend in with normal internet traffic.
A shopping trip turned public shaming exposes the hidden dangers of algorithmic policing.
Von der Leyen casts online “misinformation” as a contagion, folding speech regulation into the language of safety.
The government keeps collecting what it can’t protect.
More than 500 scientists denounce EU’s encrypted message scanning as “technically infeasible.”
Public consultation was billed as dialogue but ended up as window dressing.
Meta’s former WhatsApp security chief says the company buried risks so deep that protecting users became an afterthought to protecting its image.
The internet’s lasting stronghold of anonymity is being dismantled in the name of safety.
The decision cements a high bar for public figures trying to fight back against media characterization.
A handshake in Dubai signals a future where identity and payments merge into a single digital layer.
A federal digital ID watchdog could soon decide how anonymous you’re allowed to be online.
Bondi’s rhetoric turns a legal non-category into a political weapon.
Entire neighborhoods of the internet are going dark just so LaLiga can keep pirated streams off your screen.
ACMA’s push to revive fact-checking ties signals growing state pressure on tech platforms.
Even the privacy-first brands play bouncer when the right acronym knocks.
The bills pit mental health urgency against the right to private digital conversations.
Trump’s tour is reportedly set to double as a rebuke of Britain’s approach to online expression.
A face in the crowd is all it takes to be caught in the dragnet of a digital police state.
Google’s monopoly defense unravels as judges uphold injunctions.
The State Department’s intervention marks a new phase in America’s resistance to Europe’s creeping speech controls.
The fight over SB 976 now moves from the courtroom to the attorney general’s rulebook.
It’s a major step for Tor on mobile, even if the software is still rough around the edges.
Anonymous speech is being traded for compliance, one state law at a time.
The louder the calls to make AI safer, the more they sound like demands for police access and identity checks.
Mullvad wraps WireGuard in QUIC to make VPN traffic blend in with normal internet traffic.
A shopping trip turned public shaming exposes the hidden dangers of algorithmic policing.
Von der Leyen casts online “misinformation” as a contagion, folding speech regulation into the language of safety.
The government keeps collecting what it can’t protect.
More than 500 scientists denounce EU’s encrypted message scanning as “technically infeasible.”
Public consultation was billed as dialogue but ended up as window dressing.
Meta’s former WhatsApp security chief says the company buried risks so deep that protecting users became an afterthought to protecting its image.