Topic for next week's X Space: Growing the Veil economy in Nigeria among people doing their compulsory NYSC corps (National Youth Service Corps) service. Saturday 30 May 5 PM UTC. 6 PM Nigerian time. Please mark your calendars! x.com/i/spaces/1yKAPPMpmZLxb @ProjectVeil

Google is building a registry that ties every piece of Android software to a government ID, and your phone will soon refuse to run anything that is not on it. Starting September 2026, an app will not install on a certified Android phone unless its maker has handed Google a government photo ID, paid a fee, registered a payment profile, and signed over the keys to their own code. And not just apps from the Play Store. Every app. The one a friend builds you. The one a stranger across the world wrote and gave away. The one you wrote yourself, for your own phone, in your own home. Your hardware will check it against Google's list, and if the name is not on file, the door stays shut. Android was the open one. For fifteen years that was the entire pitch, the one phone where you owned the device and chose the software and no one stood at the gate. That is what is ending. The phone goes from a thing that runs what you tell it to a thing that runs what Google has approved, and approval now means a legal name in a database. A malware author will buy a stolen identity for $40 and ship his poison the same as ever. He always has. The registry does not touch him. What it touches is the developer who cannot put his real name on his work. The one building a secure messenger for people a government wants dead. The one shipping a tool that embarrasses the powerful. The one who writes under a handle because the alternative is a knock at the door. The purpose, in Google's own words, is to "remove the cover of anonymity." The mask is the oldest tool the free press ever held. The pamphlet with no printer's name. The essay signed with a fake one. Every government that ever feared what its people might read started by demanding to know who set the type. Google has volunteered to be the one who keeps the list. If you want to install software from a maker who refused the registry, you can, after you enable developer mode, swear to your phone that no one is forcing you to do this, restart the device, wait a full twenty-four hours, and authenticate again. A day-long cooling-off period and a coercion check, to put a program you chose on a phone you own. It is the permission slip with enough friction that most people stop trying, which was always the point. F-Droid, the free software catalogue that has handed out unsigned, unregistered, no-name software for over fifteen years, called it existential and refused to comply. 67 organizations told Google to kill the plan. Google moved the date for no one. So learn the way out now, while the door is still open. The stores that answer to no registry. The phones that were never on Google's list. The skill of putting what you choose onto the machine you own, before that skill becomes a thing you have to wait a day and swear an oath to use. A phone that asks permission before it runs your software was never your phone. It was theirs, parked in your pocket, billed to your name. Take it back while taking it back is still allowed.

Australia lets the cat out of the bag! In order to ban under 16s from social media, EVERYONE will have to have digital ID or they won’t be able to get on the internet Starmer says Digital ID won’t be mandatory er Unless you never need the internet 🔥

Topic for next week's X Space: Growing the Veil economy in Nigeria among people doing their compulsory NYSC corps (National Youth Service Corps) service. Saturday 30 May 5 PM UTC. 6 PM Nigerian time. Please mark your calendars! x.com/i/spaces/1yKAPPMpmZLxb @ProjectVeil

Imagine if crypto had actually been built on anonymity and privacy from day one. Privacy coins wouldn’t even need to exist. Mainstream crypto failed its core mission. That’s why $VEIL & other privacy coins exist, to deliver what crypto should have been all along.

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