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Well I'm being proven wrong because California's AB 2273 (more in depth article here) seems like it has uhhAt least they don't really go anywhere like the EARN IT Act but it still worries me.
passed???
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This law wants to make it so that companies collect less data on children but it wants to be absolutely sure whether or not users on a website are children, which probably means that websites will have to do something like ID verification.
I've been thinking that ID verification on the internet will probably become a thing sooner or later because now that there's so much more attention on it and it's integrated so much more into our lives, is anyone really going to deal with age verification being 1 button that says "Are you 18?". Probably not
People would probably accept this change too because 1. People take whatever tech companies do lying down and 2. Like I said the internet's more apart of our lives, so we have to protect the children!!!!
I'm expecting this bill to either make us move towards this path of verification like this or, a positive benefit of data mining getting crippled. Websites have to lessen the data they can collect if they aren't completely sure if all of their users are adults, so they'd probably either try to verify all users or give up and just treat everyone as children. I'm not sure how this would go, sites with large amounts of users like social media can probably afford to ask everyone to just cough up a pic of their IDs but smaller sites probably would just treat everyone as children. Or, California could just realize that it's too hard to try enforce something like this, I could see that happening too.
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