Florida’s lawsuit spotlights a paradox where efforts to shield children online could end up erasing privacy for everyone. By Ken Macon Florida’s attorney general has…
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By Cindy Harper The line between safety and surveillance keeps getting thinner. The World Health Organization has introduced a major overhaul of its global monitoring…
Compulsory age checks mark a quiet but seismic move toward digital identity becoming the price of admission online. By Dan Frieth The European Commission is…
Retailers must now disclose when personal data shapes the prices customers see. By Ken Macon A federal judge has dismissed a legal challenge from the…
YouTube’s forgiveness comes with fine print. By Cindy Harper YouTube is opening a narrow door to some of the creators it previously purged, but many…
Lagarde frames democracy as a speed bump on the road to a cashless future. By Ken Macon European Central Bank President Christine Lagarde has expressed…
Brazil is the next country where anonymity dies quietly, under the soft cover of child safety. By Cindy Harper Brazil has enacted a new law…
It’s not anonymous and, for many, that’s already a dealbreaker. By Ken Macon EU finance ministers have signed off on a roadmap that could pave…
In the UK, demanding an apology seems to be a law enforcement strategy. By Cam Wakefield Just when you thought British speech policing had reached…
More than 500 scientists denounce EU’s encrypted message scanning as “technically infeasible.” By Ken Macon A group of more than 500 experts in cybersecurity, cryptography,…
Meta’s former WhatsApp security chief says the company buried risks so deep that protecting users became an afterthought to protecting its image. By Ken Macon…
A partial reckoning lands as Google sidesteps a breakup and keeps its search crown intact. By Dan Frieth A long-awaited decision from US District Judge…
UK regulators thought they could send an email and police the First Amendment. This new lawsuit is fighting back. By Dan Frieth Two of the…
By Cindy Harper X and its artificial intelligence affiliate, X AI, filed a federal lawsuit Monday accusing Apple and OpenAI of colluding to maintain…
By Christina Maas You’ve landed in the United States, jet-lagged and maybe still trying to remember if you left your charger in the seatback…
Roblox’s child safety failures are now the launchpad for statewide digital ID enforcement. By Ken Macon Lawmakers in Louisiana are seizing on growing public anger…
Coding KYC into smart contracts threatens to turn permissionless finance into a gated system. By Ken Macon The US Treasury is exploring whether decentralized finance…
BC Nurse Fined and Suspended Over Gender Policy Criticism
By Cindy Harper A British Columbia nurse has been hit with a one-month license suspension and ordered to pay over $93,000 in legal fees for…