age verification
The White House’s AI Deal: Kill State Laws, Demand Your ID
Silicon Valley gets the regulatory shield it’s been lobbying for and all it costs is the end of the anonymous internet.
Japan Plans Social Media Age Checks via Carrier Data
The fix Tokyo prefers would link the phone account in your legal name to everything you read, post, and scroll past.
Google Wants to Be the ID Checkpoint for Europe’s Internet
Google is volunteering to broker your legal identity for every ordinary thing you do online.
Florida vs. OpenAI: The Fight to ID Every ChatGPT User
Proving you are not a child means proving exactly who you are and that is the remedy Florida wants written into law.
DOJ Sought YouTube Subscriber Data
The protection this judge offered could vanish the moment every account carries a verified government ID.
California Assembly Passes Under-16 Social Media Ban
Buried past the 76-to-0 vote is a clause letting the Attorney General widen who counts as a “covered platform’ without the Legislature voting again.
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.
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.
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.