Privacy Groups Revolt Against Google’s Demand to Register Every Android Developer
Google is turning sideloading from a right into a permission slip, and the open-source community has until September to convince it otherwise.
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.
Newsom Backs Teen Social Media Ban After Daughter’s Birthday Party Phone Moment
The governor who couldn’t bring himself to say “put the phones down” at his own daughter’s party is now asking the state to say it for every family in California.
Macron Calls Online Free Speech Argument “Pure Bullshit”
The pro-censorship French president is now the most eloquent voice in the West for the idea that free speech, unregulated, is a problem to be solved.
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.
Google Handed ICE Detailed Personal and Financial Data Without Court Order or User Notice
Google handed over credit card numbers, IP addresses, and phone records tied to a student’s account without a warrant, and without telling him it had happened.
MembersThe Gospel of the Anxious Generation
The myth of “social media addiction” has become a convenient moral shield for expanding digital ID systems, turning concern for kids’ safety into consent for mass surveillance.
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.
Landmark LA Trial Targets Social Media Addiction Claims
A Los Angeles jury is about to decide whether social media design itself can be treated as a defective product in the eyes of American law.
Google to Pay $68M Over Voice Assistant Privacy Lawsuit
A $68 million deal marks Google’s effort to quiet years of unease over smart devices that listened when they shouldn’t have.
MembersThe Supreme Court Faces the Age of the Digital Dragnet
The justices are about to decide whether carrying a smartphone means surrendering the Fourth Amendment.
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.
