# DIGITALID

# DIGITALID

vlgr Oct 28, 2026

Civil Servants, Citizen Data and Generative AI: Four Years of Administrative Negligence

Prove you're 18 to use a chatbot. The chatbot already has your tax return. Sweden has just blocked ChatGPT and Claude on government computers. Nearly four years after ChatGPT went public, governments are discovering that their clerks could feed citizens' data into consumer AI accounts all along. If the state has been quietly running on AI for years, why hasn't it got any faster?

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vlgr Oct 22, 2026

PHP2Shell: Finally, a Breakthrough in Citizen Management

With personal data potentially already exposed, governments see an opportunity to simplify privacy, eliminate unnecessary consent discussions and introduce ABSOLUTELY SECURE™ Digital ID 2.0.

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vlgr Oct 21, 2026

PHP2Shell: Even the Cybersecurity Agency Took Its Website Offline

The internet is burning. Government portals across Europe went dark on October 21. PHP2Shell. Two remote code execution holes in the language that quietly powers half the web. CVSS 9.2. Critical. Patch now or perish.

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vlgr Oct 8, 2026

EU and Britain show their love for Linux by banning it. Only de facto, not de jure.

New product liability rules in the EU and proposals under discussion in Britain could have far-reaching consequences for Linux and the wider open-source ecosystem. Add growing government enthusiasm for age verification and operating-system-level controls, and the future of independent computing starts looking rather less independent.

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vlgr Oct 5, 2026

American “Free Speech” is “The Opposite of Free Speech”, says Macron

Hitting someone, stabbing someone, insulting someone online and damaging someone’s property are all examples of exceeding the permissible limits of "our freedom". Information, Macron says, has to be treated within “public order.” People posting inconvenient things online should feel the consequences to save "our democracy".

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vlgr Sep 17, 2026

EU Kills Anonymity Online by Going Through Your Children

Ursula von der Leyen told us today, that technology was never built with children’s wellbeing in mind. True. It is also not her problem. The slogans go like “1 - safety by design” and "2 - protect the children". These are 2 separate issues, do not mix them!

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vlgr Sep 11, 2026

The EU Has Cut Red Tape for Finding Out Who You Are Online

Europe has finally found some bureaucracy it would like to remove. Unfortunately, it was standing between a prosecutor and the person who wrote a comment online.

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vlgr Aug 18, 2026

New EU Toy: Your Emails, Messages and IPs Now Travel Faster Than Your Rights

Brussels has just given prosecutors a fast-lane to your digital life. The safeguards are optional. The deadlines are not.

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vlgr Aug 3, 2026

Europe Demanded Age Verification. Europe Could Not Build Age Verification.

Europe spent years rewriting legislation to protect children online, reaching from digital-ID verification to access the internet to banning children from communicating in multiplayer games. Then came the implementation phase.

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vlgr Jul 30, 2026

Telegram, Terrorists and the Right to Be an Idiot

Criminals use encrypted messaging. So does everyone else. Telegram’s battles with France and Russia expose the question governments would rather avoid: should the state investigate people suspected of crimes, or weaken private communication until everyone becomes conveniently searchable?