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[ PRIVACY Forum ] About Kid's Online Safety Act and age verification
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Date: Tue, 30 Jul 2024 11:45:07 -0700
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About Kid's Online Safety Act and age verification
For anyone who points out that the Kids Online Safety Act doesn't
actually REQUIRE government IDs for age verification, let me assure
you that this is, to use the vernacular, a subterfuge.
The liabilities created by the legislation for violations by the
targeted sites are so large that nothing short of age verification via
government IDs will satisfy their own legal departments in the long
run -- and with good reason.
This doesn't mean uploading IDs to each site -- the anticipated model
is third party verifiers -- but that doesn't actually reduce (and may
actually increase) the privacy and tracking abuse risks associated
with these age verification models, for a variety of technical
reasons. -L
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--Lauren--
Lauren Weinstein
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