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Xbox Age Checks Hit Australian Adults Buying 18+ Games
Every adult hands over a face or a document, and the children the rule is aimed are are still playing.
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.
Spain Fines ID Tool Yoti for Privacy Violations in Biometric ID App
The six-month deadline to fix the consent screens and retention logs is the least interesting part of a ruling that quietly confirms governments are mandating surveillance infrastructure they haven’t thought through.
Australia’s Top Censor Warns of Surveillance While Hypocritically Expanding It
Julie Inman Grant warns of data predators while quietly building a system that feeds them.
Spotify Threatens to Delete Accounts That Fail Digital ID Checks
Spotify’s move risks turning casual listeners into scanned data points under the guise of safety compliance.
UK’s Ofcom to Enforce Age Verification Using Facial Recognition Under Online “Safety” Act
The move could set a global precedent for facial recognition in online age verification.
Privacy Takes a Hit: Meta’s Digital ID Check Plans Dig Deeper Than Ever
Meta’s latest age verification tool signals a privacy battleground, using data-driven “guesswork” over user identities with no public transparency.
Facial Recognition Company Suggests Deep Fakes Increase the Need for Digital ID
Another excuse to usher in digital ID.
UK Retail Is Flooded With Facial Recognition, Digital ID Trials
Rapidly growing.
UK Movie Theaters to Use Digital IDs for Kids
Normalizing the use of digital ID.
UK Police Facial Recognition Technology Only Works 4% of the Time
Police even scored a 100% misidentification rate in two separate instances.
UK Porn Block Law: How the Creepy Age Verification Systems Will Work
The age verification systems will include online account based verification, app and voucher based verification, and facial scanning verification.
