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Utah's latest push against online adult content has crossed a new line. Senate Bill 73, signed by Governor Spencer Cox on March 19, 2026, takes effect today, May 6. It marks the...

Mustache Tricks and Data Leaks: Why UK’s Online Safety Act Age Gates Are Failing Kids and Exposing Adults

Kids in the UK are doodling mustaches on their faces to sneak past digital bouncers. A fresh report from Internet Matters reveals the absurdity. Nearly half of surveyed children...

Roblox’s User Growth Stalls: Age Checks Slash Guidance as Shares Plunge 20%

Roblox Corp. posted robust financial gains in the first quarter of 2026, yet its shares cratered more than 20% in after-hours trading Thursday. Revenue climbed 39% year-over-...

Proton CEO Sounds Alarm: Age Checks Threaten to Lock Down the Open Web with Mandatory ID Scans

Andy Yen doesn't mince words. The Proton CEO warns that age verification mandates sweeping U.S. states will transform the internet into a vast ID checkpoint. Adults everywher...

EU Age Verification Wallet’s Privacy Flaw: GitHub Critique Exposes Unproven Claims Ahead of 2026 Rollout

A pointed critique on GitHub has ignited debate over the European Union's age verification technical specifications. The issue, raised in the...

Greece Draws a Hard Line: No Social Media for Anyone Under 15, and the Rest of Europe Is Watching

Greece just did what a growing number of Western democracies have been threatening to do for years. It banned children under 15 from social media entirely.Prime Minist...

Wisconsin’s Governor Just Killed an Age Verification Bill — And Exposed the Fault Lines Splitting America’s Internet Policy

Wisconsin Governor Tony Evers vetoed an age verification bill on Friday, making his state one of the few to explicitly reject the wave of legislation sweeping the country tha...

Debian’s Age Verification Dilemma Exposes the Fault Line Between Child Safety Laws and the Open-Source Internet

The Debian Project — one of the oldest and most influential Linux distributions in the world — is wrestling with a question it never expected to face: whether a volunteer-run...

OpenAI’s Child Safety Coalition and the Age Verification Playbook Big Tech Keeps Writing for Washington

OpenAI wants to protect your kids. So does Meta. So does every major technology company that has lately discovered a passion for child safety — right around the time lawmaker...

GrapheneOS Has a Plan to Kill Age Verification Laws — By Making Them Unnecessary

A privacy-focused mobile operating system, built by a small team with no corporate parent, is quietly proposing what might be the most elegant solution yet to one of the inte...

GrapheneOS Exposes the Forgotten Flaw in Age Verification Laws: The Operating System Already Has the Tools

Every few months, another state legislature drafts a bill demanding that apps and websites verify the age of their users. The proposals arrive with earnest language about pro...

Pinterest’s CEO Wants to Ban Kids Under 16 From Social Media. He’s Not Alone — and Washington May Finally Be Listening.

Bill Ready, the chief executive of Pinterest, isn't known for making waves in Washington. His platform — a digital pinboard for recipes, home décor ideas, and wedding inspira...

System76 Exposes the Real Agenda Behind State Age Verification Bills: Big Tech’s Liability Dodge Meets Government Surveillance

System76 CEO Carl Richell isn't hedging. In a...

Indonesia Bans Social Media for Kids Under 16: What the Tech Industry Needs to Know

Indonesia just drew a hard line. The country announced a social media ban for anyone under 16 years old, joining a growing wave of governments worldwide that are deciding tec...

The Kids Online Safety Act Could Kill Internet Anonymity — Here’s What You Need to Know

The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) has been one of the most debated pieces of tech legislation in years, and it finally went to a Senate vote in mid-2024 with overwhelming bip...

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