Privacy
Pritzker Signs Law Making Devices Report Every User's Age Bracket to Apps
The state overreaches and weighs in on what time kids should switch off.
Apple Challenges UK iCloud Backdoor Order
The order is a crime for Apple to describe, so British users learn what happens to their privacy rights from court paperwork and leaks.
Google To Expand Play Age Signals API to All Users Worldwide
Google Play's age verification API goes global by end of 2026, timed to new laws in Texas, Alabama, Brazil, the UK, and more.
Signal Could Be Working on Accounts Without Phone Numbers
Signal usernames arrived in 2024, but signup still needs a phone number. New server code suggests that may change.
MembersBorder Phone Security: What Works and What Backfires
What actually protects a phone at a border: encryption, BFU state, and preparation, not last-minute wiping.
Senate Bill Would Put Age Checks in Every US Operating System
Every bill that builds a checkpoint says it is not building a checkpoint.
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.