Thanks to the British government, if you decline the prompt, you lose the ability to download apps. The post Apple Rolls Out Age Verification to UK iPhone Users Under Online Safety Act
The company selling privacy as a feature is now running age screening on 18+ app downloads without explaining what data makes that determination possible. The post Apple Expands Age Checks to
The SPD is selling this as child protection, but the architecture they're building looks a lot more like a checkpoint than a parental control. The post Germany’s SPD Pushes Mandatory Government ID
The man who outlasted a French arrest now faces a Russian prison threat from the country he left behind two decades ago. The post Russia’s FSB Charges Telegram Founder Pavel Durov with Aiding
Reddit's fix for protecting children's data requires adults to hand their face and government ID to a third-party system that runs 269 verification checks per person. The post UK’s Reddit Fine
The false advertising angle is LA County's way around the First Amendment maze; not "did Roblox harm children?" but "did Roblox lie about it?" – a question courts are far more comfortable
The UK's age verification mandate arrived as promised, and Xbox delivered it by ejecting players mid-session, stripping away chat, and treating 18-year account holders like suspicious strangers. The
Eight months of flagged conversations, five wrongful death lawsuits, and a Canadian school shooting later, lawmakers have found their argument for turning AI chatbots into government reporting
Macron is asking Washington to welcome back the architect of the law that got X fined. The post Macron Asks Trump to Lift Visa Ban on Censorship Law Architect
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
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. The post Newsom Backs Teen Social
No outside arbiter, no independent review, no appeal before the fine lands; just the Commission, its definitions, and a $140 million bill. X is pushing back. The post X Challenges EU’s $140
A federal judge just ruled that the public can't know exactly how much the FBI paid Twitter during the years it was also telling Twitter which Americans to censor. The post FBI Wins Court Ruling to
Zuckerberg spent five hours defending Instagram's design choices, and walked out having handed legislators and regulators their preferred blueprint for a national digital ID system. The post
Brussels is pursuing Chat Control to surveil private communications while its own enforcers retreat deeper into encrypted, self-destructing ones. The post EU Defends Censorship Law While Commission
Germany already has laws that let politicians prosecute citizens for insulting them online and Merz just wants to remove the last step between a critical post and a knock on the door. The post
The court gave researchers what they asked for, but the same institution that fined X for refusing is also the largest funder of the group that sued to make it comply. The post Berlin Court Orders X
The portal is Washington's opening move in a direct confrontation with European governments over who gets to decide what their citizens can read. The post US Plans freedom.gov Website to Host
A leaked dashboard screenshot reveals how commercial spyware silently installs via zero-click exploits to read encrypted messages and activate microphones. The post The Billion Dollar Business Of
Their voting records read like blueprints for the same surveillance state they're asking taxpayers to help Iranians escape. The post Senators Talk Digital Freedom for Iran While Expanding
