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Texas Locked a Foreign Company's Domain Over Missing Digital ID Checks

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Texas Locked a Foreign Company's Domain Over Missing Digital ID Checks

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 nev...

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Italy's Draft AI Decree Lets Police Take the Biometrics of Everyone at a Protest

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Italy's Draft AI Decree Lets Police Take the Biometrics of Everyone at a Protest

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

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Wichita Machinist Sues City to Shut Down Flock License Plate Camera Network

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Wichita Machinist Sues City to Shut Down Flock License Plate Camera Network

The suit asks Kansas courts to read the state constitution as protecting more than the Fourth Amendment does.

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Edmonton Police Review Hate Reports on Lawful Speech

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Edmonton Police Review Hate Reports on Lawful Speech

The video lasted a day. The web form it pointed to is still accepting submissions.

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Tower Dumps Are Unconstitutional, Federal Judge Rules

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Tower Dumps Are Unconstitutional, Federal Judge Rules

Tower dumps can place people inside homes, clinics, shelters, and polling sites, the Mississippi order warns.

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Meta Fined $567M in Ruling That Points to Digital ID

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Meta Fined $567M in Ruling That Points to Digital ID

Nothing in the order says "show us your ID" but everything downstream of the order does.

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Pritzker Signs Law Making Devices Report Every User's Age Bracket to Apps

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Pritzker Signs Law Making Devices Report Every User's Age Bracket to Apps

The state overreaches and weighs in on what time kids should switch off.

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Four Kids "Safety" Bills, Supporting Online Digital ID Agenda, Hit Senate Floor

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Four Kids "Safety" Bills, Supporting Online Digital ID Agenda, Hit Senate Floor

KOSA and the CHATBOT Act say they do not require age verification. Their duties still revolve on knowing a user's age.

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Google To Expand Play Age Signals API to All Users Worldwide

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Google To Expand Play Age Signals API to All Users Worldwide

Google Play's age verification API goes global by end of 2026, timed to new laws in Texas, Alabama, Brazil, the UK, and more.

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X Warns Australia’s Censor Wants Reach Beyond Australia

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Australia Bill Lets eSafety Demand Data From Foreigners

Australians were told to hand over their faces to keep their accounts. The regulator would now like a look at the files.

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Senate Bill Would Put Age Checks in Every US Operating System

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Senate Bill Puts Age Checks in Every US Operating System

The Digital Age Assurance Act of 2026, S. 5090, would build age brackets into every US operating system by default.

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New York Will Require Digital ID Checks for Social Feeds

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New York Will Require Digital ID Checks for Social Feeds

Letitia James was asked whether mandatory digital ID checks raise privacy concerns and said this is not a question of privacy.

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Schiff and Khanna Revive the AI Ads Act With No Parody Carveout

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Schiff and Khanna Revive the AI Ads Act With No Parody Carveout

The bill extends federal fraud rules to AI-generated content and, Schiff's office says, removes the requirement that a misrepresentation be shown d...

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Texas Orders Discord to Run UK-Style Age Checks for State Users

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Texas Orders Discord to Run UK-Style Age Checks for State Users

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.

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How NIH Silenced Its Critics Without Telling Them

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How NIH Silenced Its Critics Without Telling Them

NIH knew its keyword filters were hiding one side of a public debate. Internal emails now reveal how its lawyers tried to keep the system working w...

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The EU's top court has ruled that a VPN provider is not liable when a user routes around a geoblock. The tool being useful for circumvention does not make its creator a party to it. That principle protects every encryption and anonymity product in the bloc.