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Photo: EmDee / CC BY-SA 4.0 · source EU Orders Google to Open Android Voice Features to Rivals
Brussels is forcing Alphabet to share eleven Android features, including low-power wake word detection, with rival voice assistants by August 2027.
The EU Attestation Mandate Is Reported But Not Yet Verified
What hardware-bound attestation would mean for EU age verification, and why the specifics of the reported mandate cannot yet be verified.
Photo: Palosirkka / CC0 · source Canada Quietly Signs a UN Treaty It Spent Years Opposing
Canada signed the UN cybercrime treaty in July after years opposing it. Critics call it a cross-border surveillance pact, not a crime convention.
Photo: RWambua-WMF / CC BY-SA 4.0 · source Google Will Extend Android Age Checks Worldwide by Year's End
Google's Play Age Signals API goes global by end of 2026, letting apps see an age bracket, not a birthday. What it fixes, and what it misses.