The Deep State spent years building surveillance infrastructure under Biden.
Now embedded bureaucrats are rushing to cement it permanently before Trump can stop them.
And one obscure FTC workshop threatens to end internet privacy forever.
Federal bureaucrats plan January gathering to discuss your digital identity
The Federal Trade Commission scheduled a workshop for January 28, 2026 at its Washington, D.C. headquarters that sounds bureaucratic and boring on paper.
That's exactly what they're counting on.
The agency claims it's bringing together "experts" to discuss age verification technologies and their relationship to the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act.¹
But the real agenda is building infrastructure for an internet where every click requires government permission.
Protecting Children Becomes Trojan Horse for Universal Surveillance
The FTC says this is about safeguarding minors from inappropriate content online.
Nobody wants kids exposed to pornography or predatory behavior.
But once these age verification systems exist, they never stop where they start.
Look at what's already happening across the country.
Texas, Utah, Missouri, Virginia, and Ohio each passed laws forcing websites to verify user ages.²
These states borrowed language directly from the European Union, Australia, and the United Kingdom.
"Click to enter" just became "show your papers."
Want to visit a website? Hand over your driver's license. Submit to a facial scan. Or let some third-party company you've never heard of verify your identity.
That's the new normal in five states and counting.
Supreme Court hands states the keys to internet surveillance
Texas got sued over its age verification law.
The Free Speech Coalition argued the state couldn't force pornographic websites to check IDs because it violated the First Amendment.
The Supreme Court disagreed in 2025 and gave Texas the green light.³
State legislatures saw that ruling and went wild.
Now 25 states have their own age verification laws on the books.⁴
What began as "protecting kids from porn" turned into state governments deciding who gets to access what online.
States realized they could mandate identity verification for virtually any website and claim it's about protecting children.
California passed the Age-Appropriate Design Code requiring websites "likely to be accessed by children" to verify ages.
That vague standard applies to virtually any website on the internet.
FTC Workshop Lays Groundwork for Permanent Digital ID System
The January workshop agenda reveals what's really happening here.
The FTC wants to explore "age verification and estimation tools," "navigating the regulatory contours of age verification," and "how to deploy age verification more widely."⁵
Notice the language – not whether to deploy it, but how to expand it.
These are the same Deep State bureaucrats who spent four years under Biden weaponizing federal agencies against conservatives.
Trump won the White House but these people are still buried in the federal bureaucracy.
They're not asking permission from the President to build this surveillance system.
They scheduled this workshop, invited their buddies from Big Tech and police departments, and they're moving forward whether Trump knows about it or not.
Your internet freedom hanging by a thread
Here's what should terrify every American about this.
These unelected bureaucrats are developing "technical systems" that determine who you are before accessing any website.
Once websites verify your age, they verify YOU.
Your information gets stored in databases.
Your browsing history gets tracked.
Every site you visit, every article you read, every video you watch – all of it connected to your government-issued ID.
The anonymous internet that made free speech possible for three decades disappears overnight.
Privacy advocates saw this coming.
Over 80 organizations including the ACLU signed onto a "No Phone Home" statement opposing surveillance features built into digital identity systems.⁶
The technology allows governments to track individuals through their digital driver's licenses.
Jay Stanley from the ACLU warned about the "limitless potential misuses of location data" that governments could use to create a "bird's eye view" on individuals.⁷
They could see where IDs are being used – liquor stores, doctor's offices, political rallies, gun shows, churches.
Think about what that means.
Every website you visit gets reported back to the government.
Read an article critical of the administration? They know.
Watch a video about the Second Amendment? Tracked.
Visit a site discussing election integrity? Logged in a database somewhere.
Deep State Bureaucrats Racing to Lock This In Before Trump Notices
The timing of this workshop isn't coincidental.
Trump's already draining the swamp at other agencies.
DOGE is cutting through federal bureaucracy and exposing waste.
But the FTC bureaucrats see the writing on the wall.
They're rushing to build surveillance infrastructure and get states locked into digital ID systems before the Trump administration shuts them down.
Texas, Utah, and Louisiana passed "App Store Accountability Acts" requiring age verification for app downloads starting January 2026.⁸
These laws force Apple and Google to verify user ages before allowing app installations.
Google announced it's building APIs and systems to help developers meet these obligations despite having "user privacy and trust concerns" with the laws.⁹
Even Big Tech sees this is surveillance infrastructure disguised as child protection.
The FTC workshop brings together the same cast of characters who've been pushing digital ID systems for years.
Tech vendors who profit from selling verification systems.
Police departments who want tracking capabilities.
And "consumer representatives" who'll rubber stamp whatever the bureaucrats propose.
They'll discuss it behind closed doors in Washington.
Then states implement whatever standards come out of those meetings.
And Americans wake up one morning to find the internet requires showing papers at every turn.
Trump needs to kill this before it's too late
President Trump shut down Biden's DEI programs with the stroke of a pen.
He needs to do the same thing here.
Issue an executive order tomorrow morning halting all federal involvement in age verification systems.
Direct the FTC to cancel this January workshop.
Prohibit federal agencies from participating in digital ID infrastructure.
And investigate which bureaucrats scheduled this meeting without White House approval.
Because here's what the Deep State is betting on.
They think they can hide this surveillance system behind "protecting children" and nobody will notice.
They think Trump has too much on his plate to worry about some obscure FTC workshop.
They think by the time anyone realizes what happened, it'll be too late to stop.
They're building the infrastructure for a surveillance state that would make China's social credit system look primitive.
And they're doing it right under Trump's nose.
The President needs to know about this.
Contact the White House and demand Trump shut down this FTC surveillance workshop.
Because once they build these systems, they never go away.
And your freedom to browse the internet anonymously disappears forever.
¹ Federal Trade Commission, "FTC Announces Workshop on Age Verification Technologies," December 8, 2025.
² AVPA, "US State age verification laws for adult content," June 30, 2025.
³ ITIF, "Supreme Court Ruling Sparks Age Checks—Here's a Smarter Fix," August 6, 2025.
⁴ Ibid.
⁵ Federal Trade Commission, "Age Verification Workshop," December 8, 2025.
⁶ American Civil Liberties Union, "Digital Identity Leaders and Privacy Experts Sound the Alarm on Invasive ID Systems," June 2, 2025.
⁷ Government Technology, "'Slow Down': ACLU Warns States to Not Rush Digital IDs," July 17, 2025.
⁸ Privacy World, "App Store Age Verification Laws: Your Questions, Answered," October 28, 2025.
⁹ Google Play Console Help, "Changes to Google Play for upcoming app store bills for users in applicable US states," 2025.
