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Age Verification Laws: A Backdoor to Surveillance
I’m old enough to remember when age verification bills were pitched as a way to ‘save the kids from porn’ and shield them from other vague dangers lurking in the digital world (like…“the transgender”). We have long cautioned about the dangers of these laws, and pointed out why they are likely to...
What started as a misguided attempt to protect minors from "explicit" content online has spiraled into a tangled mess of privacy-invasive surveillance schemes affecting skincare products, dating apps, and even diet pills, threatening everyone’s right to privacy. Rather than focusing on restrictive age verification systems, lawmakers should explore better, less invasive ways to protect everyone online —methods that don’t place the entire burden of risk on individuals or threaten their fundamental rights. SAN FRANCISCO—The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) and the Repro Uncensored coalition on Wednesday launched the#StopCensoringAbortion campaign to ensure that people who need reproductive health and abortion information can find and share it.
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