New York Senate Bill S08102, introduced by Andrew Gounardes, proposes requiring internet-connected devices to verify users’ ages before they can fully access their devices and apps. The bill would require device manufacturers, operating system providers, and app stores to conduct “age assurance” at device activation and share a user’s age category with apps through a […]

Harper also warns that embedding age verification at the device level could create new privacy risks. Because the system would broadcast a user’s age category to apps that request it, critics argue it could introduce a persistent age-tracking layer across devices and online services.

  • Chemical Wonka@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
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    4 months ago

    The Silicon Valley pedophile technolords don’t give a shit about age verification; what they really want is to create a database of every single person to build the largest surveillance system ever imagined