A key supporter for an age minimum on social media is not giving up hope that such a provision could be included in a potential compromise online safety package after the midterm elections. Rep. Erin ...

Four months ago this weekend, the government introduced Bill C-34, the Safe Social Media Act, with the headline promise to establish a social media ban for those under 16. The bill has attracted enorm...

The Commission is gathering feedback on the proposed EU Kids Act.

Protect people. Regulate powerful platforms. Keep the internet open. The Government is planning to introduce tough new laws that require all adults to show ID to access to go online. They say this is ...

Looks like WoW is adding Age Verification. Just got it pop up when I logged into the beta!

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Generative AI is harming people today. We don’t need to waste time fantasizing about science fictional scenarios.

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Learn about the EU Chat Control proposal and contact your representatives to protect digital privacy and encryption.

Today the European Commission presented its proposal for the EU Kids Act. Presented as child protection, the regulation would make proof of age a condition for normal use of social media, video platfo...

EU chief Ursula Von der Leyen is expected to say that social media and platforms used by children should be "safe by design", meaning that they are not addictive and have features removed that encoura...

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Learn about the EU Chat Control proposal and contact your representatives to protect digital privacy and encryption.

Washington, D.C. – Today, Representatives Mark DeSaulnier (CA-10) and Jimmy Patronis (FL-01) introduced the Sunset Section 230 Act, which would repeal Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act of ...

Discord has confirmed a significant data breach that exposed sensitive user information after an attacker compromised a third-party customer service provider.

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IDScan.net data breach: Over 153 million North American driver’s license scans -- including infrared and ultraviolet images that defeat document authentication -- surfaced on the dark web. The FBI is ...

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Senate Commerce Committee Chairman Ted Cruz (R-Texas) and Senator Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii) released the following statement on the settlement between Meta and 47 states regarding the...

Leaders are canceling two weeks of scheduled late-September business.

From the very beginning of this recent obsession with identifying everyone online (yes, they like to call it "age" verification, but it always ends up as identity verification), we've been pointing out that it was a huge privacy nightmare waiting to happen. Or maybe it wasn't waiting. Maybe it was already happening. This week a...

The tentative agreement is a massive concession from the tech giant.

🚨Today, my office has also filed legal action against Snapchat and Discord - platforms that facilitate encrypted messaging and are frequently used by predators to evade detection and chat with childre...

Summary (2026-08-27) Age verification signals: software applications. [Senate amendments concurred in. To Engrossing and Enrolling. (Ayes 69. Noes 0.).]