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Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jun-2024 02:08:07 JST Electronic Frontier Foundation

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Today’s 404 Media story detailing the exposure of administrative credentials to a major social media age verification platform, potentially allowing hackers to access sensitive data such as driver’s license images, is just more evidence that age verification bills like KOSA are a dangerous path for the internet. https://www.404media.co/id-verification-service-for-tiktok-uber-x-exposed-driver-licenses-au10tix/
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  ID Verification Service for TikTok, Uber, X Exposed Driver Licenses
  
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  As social networks and porn sites move towards a verified identity model, the actions of one cybersecurity researcher show that ID verification services themselves could get hacked too.
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  Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jun-2024 02:08:06 JST Electronic Frontier Foundation
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  We must stop the Kids Online Safety Act. If KOSA is allowed to pass, it will likely lead to age verification, handing more power, and private data, to third-party identity verification companies—endangering the privacy of every social media user. https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-kosa-will-censor-the-internet-but-won-t-help-kids
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    Tell the Senate: KOSA Will Censor the Internet But Won't Help Kids
    
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    The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) would censor the internet and would make government officials the arbiters of what young people can see online. It will likely lead to age verification, handing more power, and private data, to third-party identity verification companies like Clear or ID.me. The government should not have the power to decide what topics are "safe" online for young people, and to force services to remove and block access to anything that might be considered unsafe for children. This isn’t safety—it’s censorship.
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  Congress needs to hear from you. https://act.eff.org/action/tell-congress-kosa-will-censor-the-internet-but-won-t-help-kids
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    Tell the Senate: KOSA Will Censor the Internet But Won't Help Kids
    
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    The Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) would censor the internet and would make government officials the arbiters of what young people can see online. It will likely lead to age verification, handing more power, and private data, to third-party identity verification companies like Clear or ID.me. The government should not have the power to decide what topics are "safe" online for young people, and to force services to remove and block access to anything that might be considered unsafe for children. This isn’t safety—it’s censorship.
  carl marks repeated this.
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  Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jun-2024 02:08:06 JST Electronic Frontier Foundation
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  Here's how #KOSA is likely to harm young people, in their own words. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/03/thousands-young-people-told-us-why-kids-online-safety-act-will-be-harmful-minors
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    Thousands of Young People Told Us Why the Kids Online Safety Act Will Be Harmful to Minors
    
    from Jason Kelley
    
    With KOSA passed, the information i can access as a minor will be limited and censored, under the guise of "protecting me", which is the responsibility of my parents, NOT the government. I have learned so much about the world and about myself through social media, and without the diverse world i...
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  Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 27-Jun-2024 02:08:07 JST Electronic Frontier Foundation
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  The House has just announced that they will move forward with a Congressional markup of the dangerous Kids Online Safety Act, which will lead to privacy-invasive online age verification for social media. https://energycommerce.house.gov/posts/chair-rodgers-announces-full-committee-markup-of-11-bills
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    Chair Rodgers Announces Full Committee Markup of 11 Bills
    
    The Committee on Energy and Commerce is the oldest standing legislative committee in the U.S. House of Representatives and is vested with the broadest jurisdiction of any congressional authorizing committee.

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