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> by requiring social media companies to verify the ages of all users before giving them accounts. This is not nearly so much about children as it is about de-
by add-sub-mul-div 3y ago
> by requiring social media companies to verify the ages of all users before giving them accounts.
This is not nearly so much about children as it is about de-anonymizing all internet use.
- lolinder 3y agoThe bill specifically requires that an anonymous age verification method be provided, and lays out some pretty solid requirements on what the third-party age verification provider must do, including not retaining any PII after the user's age has been verified [0]. [0] https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1/BillText/er/PDF https://www.flsenate.gov/Session/Bill/2024/1/BillText/er/PDF
- add-sub-mul-div 3y agoLots of things claim to be anonymous and secure but aren't. There's no excuse to fall for this claim.
- lolinder 3y agoThe bill doesn't say "the service must claim to be anonymous and secure", the bill says that the service must actually not retain age-verifying information. Yes, services might break the law and retain the information longer than they're legally allowed to, but under this bill that's a violation of the law, not merely false advertising.
- Talanes 3y agoFalse advertising is a crime too, and obviously you don't think people take that seriously, so why should this crime be any different?
- add-sub-mul-div 3y agoThe idea of $19 check coming to me in a class action lawsuit settlement eight years from now doesn't do much to make me trust that my data won't be leaked through either carelessness, intention, or obfuscation. (The latter being my term for the way our data is already "anonymously" traded among ad tech companies daily behind the scenes.)