Not so long ago, privacy online meant clearing browser history and hoping no one noticed. Today, it’s IDs, biometrics, facial scans, real name logins, age checks, and increasingly—digital identity verification that follows you from state services to banking to logging into a food delivery app. As sad as it may be, the internet is no… Read more.
Tag: Digital ID
While the West debates the nuances of age assurance and digital wallets, China has already built the infrastructure for a post-anonymous internet. If the U.S. approach is a patchwork of state laws and the EU model is a privacy-conscious wallet, China’s digital ID strategy is a centralized fortress. The era of the Wild West web… Read more.
2025 has been notable—if not revolutionary—for the UK’s privacy in both regulation and tech departments: the UK’s Online Safety Act (OSA) and its age assurance rules are already in force, and Whitehall has started pushing a program for UK digital ID cards—GOV.UK Wallet—that ministers say will (at the very least) be used for things like… Read more.
More and more governments and big platforms around the world are shifting toward forcing users to verify their identities when using online services, rolling out mandatory digital ID plans and biometric age checks—and at a faster pace than ever. Whether it’s for safety (as they usually justify these developments) or simply for more control, we’ll… Read more.