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The UK wants your phone, not just individual websites, to prove how old you are. That sounds efficient. It also means one privacy mistake follows you everywhere
Criminal gangs are blackmailing UK schools with AI-made child sexual-abuse images built from ordinary class photos. Here's what parents and schools actually nee
South Africa just said no to forcing every family to hand over ID scans or selfies to keep kids off social media. Here's what that fight is really about.
A South Korean official was fined for faking his colleague's face into a romantic photo using AI. It's a warning shot for every office with a group chat and a c
Singapore lost S$242.9 million to impersonation scams and is fighting back with something almost embarrassingly simple: one number that starts every real govern
Ireland just opened a formal investigation into whether X's parental controls and age checks actually work, not just whether they exist. Here's why that "1" mat
Emmanuel Macron wants all 27 EU countries to agree on one age-check rule for social media. Here's why that number matters more than you think, and what it means
Pakistan wants to add eye scans to phone registration because stolen fingerprints are already being used to steal identities and hijack SIM cards. Here's why yo
Microsoft just built age checks into Windows itself. That could mean fewer apps asking for your birthday, but it also means three companies now control how "how
Utah just passed a law that follows you even behind a VPN. Here's what that means for your family's privacy, and what to watch for before any site asks you to p
A call from your kid's phone number isn't proof it's your kid anymore. Here's what voice cloning actually is, why it works so well on scammers' targets, and the
Criminal gangs are using AI deepfake images of real students to blackmail schools for money. Here's why experts call the scale "shocking" and what every parent
