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Online Age Verification as Trojan Horse for the Mass Rollout of Digital IDs?
Online age verification threatens to trap everyone, not just minors, in its web, as the Australian government recently admitted.
This is an advantage Ireland has over most other EU countries when it comes to implementing online legislation: thanks to its low corporate tax rate, many of the world’s largest tech companies have chosen Dublin as the headquarters for their European operations, granting the Irish government a certain amount of leverage over them. Canada, by contrast, appears to be ploughing ahead with its proposed bill, S-210, which, as the Electronic Frontier Foundation recently warned, is “meant to benefit children, but would sacrifice the security, privacy, and free speech of all internet users”: In just the past two years, the EU’s Code of Practice on Disinformation has lost its ostensibly voluntary character with the passage of the Digital Services Act (DSA), which, as one retired German judge warned, poses an existential threat to freedom of speech in Europe.
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