Identity
Who certifies me
- When a company draws the line In Ukraine, Starlink terminals on a government list kept working and the rest were switched off. The state built the list; the company did the switching off. Yet neither side's official documents say who decides, in the end, who qualifies. September 9, 2026
- Your family is item five on Europe's list EU law puts family composition on a list of details that member states must allow to be checked electronically against national registers. The rulebook that would say what goes in that field doesn't exist yet. August 23, 2026
- Designed to Forget You Europe's age-verification app is built so that websites can't tell when two visits come from the same person. In June 2024, sixteen cryptographers told the European Commission which scheme would achieve that. In 2026 the Commission published a table showing why it picked a different one — and the cost of that choice lands on the user, passport in hand. August 23, 2026
- Ignorance is no excuse — even the honest kind In four months the EU's digital identity wallet becomes mandatory. Cryptographers warned about its design in 2024. Half the public has not heard of it. August 16, 2026