Tag: Government
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Jonah Aragon: “Device-based age verification is not a solution…”
Privacy Guides team member Jonah Aragon published a blog post about the increasing restrictions against websites which serve adult content in some countries, and why the proposed “private” solutions aren’t good for the technology ecosystem as a whole: The recent move among U.S. states to add digital “age verification” to websites which serve adult content is a…
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Worried About TikTok? The RESTRICT Act Is Not the Answer Americans Are Looking For
Privacy advocates have been calling for the United States to adopt strong consumer privacy protection laws along the lines of the EU’s GDPR for a long time now, but the proposed Restricting the Emergence of Security Threats that Risk Information and Communications Technology (RESTRICT) Act isn’t the answer we’re looking for. Terrible acronym aside, the RESTRICT Act claims to……