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Apple Forces UK iPhone Age Checks in iOS 26.4
Every iPhone in Britain is now a checkpoint, and the price of entry for many is their ID or credit card.
Brazil Launches Mandatory Age Verification Law for Online Platforms
Brazil built a national age verification system, called it child protection, and buried the surveillance infrastructure in the footnotes.
Republican Lawmakers Demand Answers on UK’s iCloud Encryption Backdoor Order
Britain’s demand that Apple build a backdoor for everyone on earth, then quietly reframe it as a domestic matter after Washington pushed back, is the kind of legal gymnastics that makes intelligence lawyers nervous on both sides of the Atlantic.
iPhone Software Beta’s UK Age Verification Screen Raises Questions
The screen Apple called an “error” revealed exactly how the company plans to use your credit history, account age, and payment data to decide what you’re allowed to download.
Apple Expands Age Checks to Australia, Brazil, Singapore, and US States
The company selling privacy as a feature is now running age screening on 18+ app downloads without explaining what data makes that determination possible.
Colorado Senate Bill Would Require Apple and Google to Embed ID Checks in Operating Systems
Colorado’s OS-level age verification bill sidesteps the failures that killed its predecessors by making Apple and Google do the heavy lifting and outsourcing the problem to a more powerful set of defendants.
Arizona Bill Would Require ID Checks to Use a Weather App
The bill would require parental permission or ID checks to open the calculator app that came with your phone.
Pam Bondi and Kristi Noem Are Sued Over Pressure on Apple and Facebook to Remove ICE-Tracking Platforms
The legal question is centered around how the idea of safety is used to let the government delete speech that breaks no laws.
The FTC’s Privacy Paradox: Guarding Kids by Tracking All Users
Despite promises of privacy, the FTC’s new age verification remedy hinges on tracking users’ behavior across the web.
Florida’s “App Store Accountability Act” Would Deputize Big Tech to Verify User IDs for App Access
The bill’s attempt to manage digital access risks turning First Amendment rights into privileges of identification.
Democrats Demand Apple and Google Ban X From App Stores
Lawmakers’ demands reveal how easily they think an excuse can eclipse the First Amendment in the age of AI.
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