First #Porn , Now #SkinCream ? ‘Age Verification’ Bills Are Out of Control

What started as a misguided attempt to protect minors from "explicit" content online has spiraled into a tangled mess of privacy-invasive #surveillance schemes affecting #skincare products, #dating apps, and even diet pills, threatening everyone’s right to #privacy.
#ageverification

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/03/first-porn-now-skin-cream-age-verification-bills-are-out-control

First Porn, Now Skin Cream? ‘Age Verification’ Bills Are Out of Control

I’m old enough to remember when age verification bills were pitched as a way to ‘save the kids from porn’ and shield them from other vague dangers lurking in the digital world (like…“the transgender”). We have long cautioned about the dangers of these laws, and pointed out why they are likely to...

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