The paperwork is still being written, but the direction of travel is unmistakable.

Once the state can decide what adults may see, the definition of harmful material rarely stays put.

Palantir says little here, while the unanswered questions do plenty of talking.

The campaign’s grassroots story comes with a remarkably well-watered government garden.

In Britain’s speech-policing era, even authorship has become a matter of suggestion.

Von der Leyen posted about privacy, safety, and security for children. The law behind the post needs everyone’s age checked.

Facebook spent years censoring plenty. The movie says the problem was that it didn’t censor enough.

A trade association whose members sell ID checks spent years arguing that more places need ID checks.

The regulations were drafted while the constitutional question was still open, which tells you something about how confident the state is.

Macron wanted to export the model around the world. His own constitutional court sent it back with notes.

Das neue Polizeigesetz von Schleswig-Holstein soll eines der härtesten Deutschlands werden. Die Gruppe Freiheitsfoo analysiert es in einem 22seitigen Gutachten. Ihr Ergebnis: Der Entwurf ist eine Bedr...

Fourteen days after a Travis County judge signed, motherless.com dropped out of the .com zone file for every person on earth, most of whom have never heard of Travis County.

The government's defense is that collection and recognition are two different stages, seven days apart.

The security expert who 'hacked' the app three times since April warns that “the next step will be proving who you are”

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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.

Google's selfie sign-in reflects the growing normalization of face scanning across big tech, from phones to airports.

Meta's Facebook Verified badge requires a video selfie, part of a fast growing push to collect biometric data.

Concern over US effort to prosecute Sam Tunick, accused by authorities of wiping his phone using GrapheneOS

Jacinta Allan promised protection for children from platforms children are already banned from using. That means her real agenda is something else.

The applause for scrapping digital ID arrived before anyone checked what survived it.

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The pitch is protecting kids from algorithms. The mechanism is a permanent identity checkpoint over the entire internet.

Every empty chair in Strasbourg counted as a vote for the surveillance nobody in the room had the numbers to stop.

Der Innenausschuss gibt grünes Licht für eine umfassende Gesetzesreform: Die Bundespolizei erhält neue Überwachungsbefugnisse von Gesichtserkennung bis Hacking.

A bid to end online anonymity under the premise of child safety.

Washington – A federal court agreed with the Texas Attorney General’s request to temporarily lift a block of the state’s controversial App Store

Country by country, the open web is being walled in and Congress just drafted America’s entry.

With no serious debate, including on proposed amendments, Canada is blazing full speed ahead with Bill C-22, which would threaten encryption and increase surveillance. Also known as the Lawful Access

The same government now demanding digital ID to enter websites just proved it can't guard the identity documents it already holds.

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A 419-to-19 vote united Poland's bitterest political enemies behind a law broad enough to criminalize a protest video.

Tyranny masquerading as child safety needs you to feel guilty before you feel suspicious. Downing Street is counting on it.

The administration warning Britain that ID checks chill speech already has states demanding the passport scan at home.

The day started out with Arch Linux's AUR user-contributed repository seeing more than 400 packages compromised with malware. Now in ending out the day they believe all affected commits have been addressed. But it ended up being more than 1,500 affected packages...

Silicon Valley gets the regulatory shield it's been lobbying for and all it costs is the end of the anonymous internet.

Refusing to install state spyware would put tech executives in prison for five years.

It is sold as a child-lock and built as a search warrant for every phone in the country.

SWARM Biotactics develops Biobots that enter, sense, and report where nothing else can.

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The internet is an essential resource for young people and adults to access information, explore community, and find themselves—both inside countries and across continents. Yet governments around the