…come December 27, 2025, every internet search any person makes will require Digital ID verification before it can be completed.
If the search engine provider fails to check for your ID, they face a $50 million fine. For each “breach” of the law.
Needless to say, I am pretty sure that search engines will comply with the law.
This is one more example of how privacy protections are eroding faster than a dam built of loose straw in the Anglosphere. Age restrictions on pornography, or, less convincingly, on social media, can be justified as necessary to protect children from genuinely harmful content. But requiring every search to be tied to a specific identified person is an outrageous invasion of privacy and ripe for abuse.
It’s for the children, you see. Because of course it is. Everything is for the children.
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