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Samsung Throws Its Support Behind Digital ID
Samsung is the last of the big three to ask for your face, which is exactly how a demand becomes a default.
5th Circuit Lets Texas Enforce App Store Age Checks
Texas drew its age line at the app store door and everyone has to show ID to get through it.
Minnesota Law Requires Platforms to Monitor and Age-Estimate All Users
Minnesota just mandated that platforms spy on every user to figure out which ones are kids.
Supreme Court Refusal in Vermont v. Meta Strengthens Addiction Suits Threatening Online Anonymity
The justices let an addiction case proceed and buried inside it is the end of logging on as a stranger.
DuckDuckGo Installs Surge 30.5% After Google AI Search Overhaul
The numbers are small but for the first time the friction of switching looks cheaper to users than the cost of staying.
California’s New Age-Verification Bill Frees Linux But Expands Age Tracking to the Open Web
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 Sues Discord, Seeks Mandatory Age Verification
Texas is using a child safety lawsuit to try to end anonymous access to Discord entirely.
Germany Considers Law to Force Social Media Algorithm Boost for State-Approved News
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.
MembersThe Strange Truth Behind The New WhatsApp Privacy Lawsuits
End-to-end encrypted, with asterisks nobody reads.
Westminster Recycles Tobacco-Style Panic Campaign For Internet Crackdown
Somewhere in Westminster a whiteboard has “free speech = tobacco” written on it with three exclamation marks.
US Court Summons Pro-Censorship Brazil Judge Moraes in Rumble Lawsuit
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.
Even Google Warns Canada Bill C-22 Creates Surveillance Backdoors
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.