How age-verification laws to enhance online child safety are raising surveillance concerns for adults; ~50% of US states have enacted or are advancing such laws
New U.S laws designed to protect minors are pulling millions of adult Americans into mandatory age-verification gates to access online content …
Age verification risks tying users' “most sensitive and immutable data” — names, faces, birthdays, home addresses — to their online activity, EFF's Molly Buckley told @CNBC. “Age verification strikes at the foundation of the free and open internet.” https://www.cnbc.com/...
“New U.S laws designed to protect minors are pulling millions of adult Americans into mandatory age-verification gates to access online content, leading to backlash from users and criticism from privacy advocates that a free and open internet is at stake.” [image]
Conservative efforts to invalidate trans ID documents, coupled with age-verification laws, could block trans people large parts of the internet. — Platforms from Discord to Bluesky to adult sites are increasingly reliant on valid IDs for age-verification — and thus access.
‘Age Verification’ will force trans people to out themselves to use the internet. After Kansas suddenly invalidated hundreds of trans peoples' licenses, experts warn the discrimination is set to extend to online spaces.