Florida
Florida Attorney General Sues Discord Over Lack of ID Checks and Content Monitoring
The state wants age checks, deeper surveillance, and a court ordered rewrite of Discord’s rules.
Florida’s Digital ID Checkpoint For Social Media Is Back In Force
Florida’s age gate now has a judicial green light, at least while the larger speech fight keeps moving.
States' OpenAI Lawsuits Seek Age Verification for All ChatGPT Users
Eight attorneys general have found a way to make the chatbot's privacy problem even more complicated.
Florida Seeks Meta ID Checks For All Users
Florida is asking the court to make privacy the price of admission for Meta’s platforms.
Florida Woman Arrested After Claude Flags Her Chatbot Diary Entry
Carli Michelle Heller treated Claude like a journal. Claude treated it like evidence.
Florida Seeks Court Order Requiring Age Verification for ChatGPT
The age check arrives dressed as child protection and carrying a much larger mandate.
MembersThe Senate's Look Inside America’s License Plate Surveillance Machine
The cameras promise smarter policing while building a map of American life.
Florida and Texas Move Against Flock License Plate Readers
Florida and Texas are putting the brakes on a system built to make every drive searchable.
MembersTotal Coverage, Optional Oversight
Surveillance companies do not promise their systems will never be abused. They promise the abuse will be caught, which is a different promise and a much smaller one.
Florida Wildlife Agency Used Police Database on Activists
The database is supposed to catch criminals. In Florida, it caught the people who show up to public meetings and say the wrong thing.
Unsealed January 6 Records Show Google Losing a DOJ Keyword Warrant Battle
The government won on a technicality about timing and the Fourth Amendment never got its day in court.
Florida Sues TikTok Over Age Verification Failures as Digital ID Mandate Takes Effect
Florida’s plan to protect kids online starts with surveilling every adult in the state.