Privacy
X Warns Australia’s Censor Wants Reach Beyond Australia
Australians were told to hand over their faces to keep their accounts. The regulator would now like a look at the files.
New York Will Require Digital ID Checks for Social Feeds
Letitia James was asked whether mandatory digital ID checks raise privacy concerns and said this is not a question of privacy.
Texas Orders Discord to Run UK-Style Age Checks for State Users
The agreed injunction gives Discord 90 days to route Texas users into the same face scans and ID checks it already runs for children in Britain.
MembersBitchat: The Right App for a Situation Nobody Wants to Be In
What a government can and cannot switch off, and what that leaves for anyone standing in the dead zone.
Telegram Founder Pavel Durov Charged with Aiding Terrorism by Russia
The case runs alongside a 55% throttling of Telegram traffic and a state push onto MAX, a messenger with no encryption pre-installed on every new Russian phone.
Delhi Students Ask High Court to Destroy Police Facial Recognition Data on Protesters
Officers filmed the hunger strikers and a second officer said no fixed retention rules exist, so the footage could stay indefinitely.
UK Committee Hears Calls to Expand the Online Safety Act’s Powers
Just when you thought the UK’s online censorship law couldn’t get any worse…
MembersCan You Escape the Device Identifiers?
Every platform remembers you in its own language.
GrapheneOS Wipe at Airport Leads to Federal Charge in Atlanta
Border search law, Fifth Amendment claims, and Cop City politics collide in an Atlanta federal court case.
Blizzard Begins Asking UK Players for ID Before They Can Chat
The Online Safety Act has arrived in Azeroth, and it has questions about your ID.
Facebook Verified: Meta Now Wants a Video Selfie of Your Face
Meta’s Facebook Verified badge requires a video selfie, part of a fast growing push to collect biometric data.
EU DSA Ruling on TikTok Points to ID Checks
The Commission wants TikTok to know which users are children, which means TikTok has to know exactly who everybody else is too.