Want to know more about age verification, age assurance and what it means for your privacy online?
ORG has developed a website with key facts and advice on what the UK Online Safety Act means for you.
Find out more 
As age verification providers are not regulated, users could face providing their sensitive data over and over across different platforms.
This means ID documents could be sent off to other countries and some sites will pick providers with poor privacy terms and conditions.
We must have a choice!
Grindr is rolling out age verification for UK users to comply with the Online Safety Act.
The Act lets platforms choose the provider to do these checks and requires no certification for high privacy standards.
Users deserve to have their data handled securely.
https://www.attitude.co.uk/news/grindr-introduces-age-verification-for-uk-based-users-486823/
Editorial: How Do We Restore Public Support for Free Speech?
Drew Wilson asks a pretty core question with regards to free speech. If you can believe it, it's not a rhetorical question.
https://www.freezenet.ca/editorial-how-do-we-restore-public-support-for-free-speech/
By the way, this article I wrote for Pride Month on queer dating apps is also applicable to anyone using any dating apps.
I highly recommend a read if
you are currently using a dating app,
or have been in the past and have not deleted your data and account yet:
https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/06/24/queer-dating-apps-beware-who-you-trust/
Dzieci w Internecie - są. Pytanie, czy powinny, a jeśli tak, to od jakiego wieku? Jak sprawić, żeby te młodsze nie były mielone przez komercyjne platformy na cyfrową biomasę? Uchronić je przed treściami przeznaczonymi dla dorosłych? A przy tym zadbać o prywatność użytowników w każdym wieku?
Katarzyna Szymielewicz z @panoptykon i Marcin Maj z @niebezpiecznik_pl rozmawiają w Pulsie Trójki:
US #SupremeCourt Upholds Texas #Porn ID Law
In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court held that age verification for explicit sites is #constitutional. In a dissent, Justice Elena Kagan warned it burdens adults and ignores #FirstAmendment precedent.
#scotus #privacy #ageverification
https://www.wired.com/story/us-supreme-court-porn-age-verification-decision-2025/
#SupremeCourt upholds #Texas #porn law that caused #Pornhub to leave the state
The Supreme Court today upheld a Texas law that requires age verification on porn sites, finding that the state's age-gating law doesn't violate the #FirstAmendment.
#privacy #ageverification #scotus #security
Today's #SupremeCourt Decision on #AgeVerification Tramples #FreeSpeech and Undermines #Privacy
#scotus
#Tech industry group sues #Arkansas over new #socialmedia #laws
> Arkansas is among several states that have been enacting restrictions on social media, prompted by concerns about the impact on children’s mental health. #NetChoice — whose members include #TikTok, #Facebook parent #Meta, and the social platform #X — challenged Arkansas’ 2023 #ageVerification #law for social media.
https://apnews.com/article/net-choice-arkansas-huckabee-sanders-a228cad0c8ed00e4be0b637e12b73f09
Today's #SupremeCourt Decision on #AgeVerification Tramples #FreeSpeech and Undermines #Privacy
"'I'm sure that Texas et al. will decide that that anything they don't like (1984? Fahrenheit 451? Dreams From My Father?) is adult-only and will require this hard-to-get credential."
And here is the crux of the matter
All the #AgeVerification #AdultOnly moral panic is merely to establish a precedent for a control mechanism
Once the control mechanism is in place, nationally, what is specifically to *be* controlled will be established at a later date
Shaffer told the justices that young people should be block from accessing #porn, but there were less intrusive ways of doing that than #AgeVerification. He suggested educating parents & using content-filtering software were better routes, but Justice Amy Coney #Barrett pushed back on that, citing her own children.
#privacy #Texas #law #SCOTUS #FirstAmendment 
In response to statutes in #Texas & elsewhere, #Pornhub cut off service to states requiring #AgeVerification.
The #porn industry plaintiffs, who formed an association called the #FreeSpeech Coalition, sued to block the TX #law before it went into effect in 2023. Derek L. Shaffer, an attorney for the coalition, argued the lower court ruling allowing the law could “open the door to an emerging wave of #regulations that imperil #FreeSpeech online.”
Julian Sanchez: “If your law is good when there are good people in office, but dangerous when there are bad people in office, your law is bad”
https://alecmuffett.com/article/113601
#AgeVerification #FreeSpeech #OnlineSafety #censorship #glad #kosa #lgbtq #privacy #trump
Don't scan your eyeball for the World App.
Don't use the World App.
DON'T 
https://www.privacyguides.org/articles/2025/05/10/sam-altman-wants-your-eyeball/
Welcome to Computing's weekly roundup of tech news in Asia. This time we look at the results of Australia’s age assurance trials, plus signs of regret over US chip bans to China.
https://www.computing.co.uk/news/2025/australia-okays-age-assurance-tech-asian-tech-roundup
@thenewoil which it inevitably does!
Protecting Minors Online Must Not Come at the Cost of #Privacy and Free Expression
