Will this be the year that “papers, please” becomes redundant?
https://pogowasright.org/governments-are-pushing-digital-ids-are-you-ready-to-be-tracked/
Governments Are Pushing Digital IDs. Are You Ready To Be Tracked?
John Stossel writes:
Politicians push government IDs.
In a TSA announcement, Secretary of Homeland Security Kristi Noem sternly warns, “You will need a REAL ID to travel by air or visit federal buildings.”
European politicians go much further, reports Stossel TV producer Kristin Tokarev.
They’re pushing government-mandated digital IDs that tie your identity to nearly everything you do.
Spain’s prime minister promises “an end to anonymity” on social media!
Britain’s prime minister warns, “You will not be able to work in the United Kingdom if you do not have digital ID.”
Queen Maxima of the Netherlands enthusiastically told the World Economic Forum that digital IDs are good for knowing “who actually got a vaccination or not.”
Many American tech leaders also like digital IDs.
Read more at Reason.
This pretty much sums it up.
TikTok Deal Done And It’s Somehow The Shittiest Possible Outcome, Making Everything Worse
There were rumblings about this for a while, but it looks like the Trump TikTok deal is done, and it’s somehow the worst of all possible outcomes, amazingly making all of the biggest criticisms about TikTok significantly worse. Quite an accomplishment.
The Chinese government has signed off on the deal, which involves offloading a large chunk of TikTok to billionaire right wing Trump ally Larry Ellison (fresh off his acquisition of CBS), the private equity firm Silver Lake (which has broad global investments in Chinese and Israeli hyper-surveillance), and MGX (Abu Dhabi’s state investment firm), while still somehow having large investment involvement by the Chinese:
A brief summary. (Expect lots of year end articles.)
https://www.findarticles.com/worst-data-breaches-roil-2025-around-the-world/
Worst Data Breaches Roil 2025 Around the World
Security this year was a mess of hacks, thefts and disruption. From government systems to cloud CRMs and high street store chains, attackers seamlessly pivoted between stealthy data exfiltration and highly visible outages — sometimes in the same campaign. The result was a bruising 2025 that laid bare how fragile digital dependencies have grown.
Another perspective.
https://krebsonsecurity.com/2025/12/dismantling-defenses-trump-2-0-cyber-year-in-review/
Dismantling Defenses: Trump 2.0 Cyber Year in Review
The Trump administration has pursued a staggering range of policy pivots this past year that threaten to weaken the nation’s ability and willingness to address a broad spectrum of technology challenges, from cybersecurity and privacy to countering disinformation, fraud and corruption. These shifts, along with the president’s efforts to restrict free speech and freedom of the press, have come at such a rapid clip that many readers probably aren’t even aware of them all.
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