Lots of US states, European countries, and Australia have introduced “age verification” regulations. They present it as the classic “save the children” talking point, but it’s really just a precursor to attribution of speech, particularly attributing your words to your … Read more
Independent decompilation of the Persona Wallet APK v1.14.0 (SDK v2.32.3, built March 11, 2026) and analysis of the web inquiry bundle from cdn.withpersona.com (inquiry-main.js, 1.8MB) reveals the full scope of Persona’s surveillance capabilities. The APK was obtained from APKPure and … Read more
Apple is rolling out age verification for iPhone and iPad in the UK. The idea is to get the device “owner” to verify their age so that they can access “certain services”. Apple has already removed encryption for UK users … Read more
5 min read Waydell D. Carvalho is an independent researcher and systems architect in AI governance, regulatory design, and socio-technical risk. Nicole Millman; Source images: iStock Social media is going the way of alcohol, gambling, and other social sins: societies … Read more
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After the United Kingdom’s Online Safety Act went into effect on Friday, requiring porn platforms and other adult content sites to implement user age verification mechanisms, use of virtual private networks (VPNs) and other circumvention tools spiked in the UK … Read more
Trust is everything. Social media has connected us in powerful ways, but it hasn’t always given us the tools to know who we’re interacting with or why we should trust them. In 2023, we launched our first layer of verification: … Read more
I’m old enough to remember when age verification bills were pitched as a way to ‘save the kids from porn’ and shield them from other vague dangers lurking in the digital world (like…“the transgender”). We have long cautioned about the … Read more
Subscribe Join the newsletter to get the latest updates. A company that verifies the identities of TikTok, Uber, and X users, sometimes by processing photographs of their faces and pictures of their drivers’ licenses, exposed a set of administrative credentials … Read more
The recent move among U.S. states to add digital “age verification” to websites which serve adult content is a troubling one. Digital age verification systems are rife with privacy concerns, many requiring you to upload your government ID to third-party … Read more