Florida banned kids under 14, took Meta to court, and went after ChatGPT. Now it wants the phone itself to check your age.

The teenagers have outlasted the ban, the fines, and the AI. Every adult in Australia may be the next to show ID if the ...

Oxford Street is becoming a test case for making mass surveillance feel like urban furniture. There’s now a date for when London’s Oxford Street will start being scanned by permanent live facial ...

Google has changed its privacy policy, allowing it to use content from Gmail, Drive, and Photos to target ads, if those services are connected to its Personal Intelligence AI feature, available in ...

A New Mexico judge has ordered Meta to pay $25 billion as a result of a jury verdict delivered on September 25 that found ...

Australian Prime Minister Anthony Albanese is already blaming “social media” for the rise in threats and harassment of ...

Canada’s Bill C-22, the Lawful Access Act, has cleared another hurdle. It would force not only telecoms but also “electronic service providers” – such as those offering messaging apps – to build in ...

France has handed Quad9 a choice between global censorship, user surveillance, and retreat. The Swiss non-profit that operates the free, privacy- and security-focused public DNS resolver Quad9 says it ...

The identity check that was meant to stop fraud is what pinned it on her. Know Your Customer (KYC) rules require Cash App to ...

Google has been quietly linking every Google Account signed in on an Android device to the phone number of that device – ...

Members The New Geography of Being Watched. The most unsettling part is not that the machine can find you, but how little it needs to start.

Wells explained the need to go global in an interview for Bloomberg, published on October 20, saying that tech companies are “the most resourced, powerful companies in the world” and that “It’s going ...