working through google's new account #privacy theater i mean settings as the #degoogle process continues.
there are now SEVENTY different activity categories to manage in "my activity" alone, with each showing an activity history of searches & clicks & views & location & reactions & purchases & voices & faces & who knows what more. (mine are all empty. duh.)
total PITA but i can't wait to walk the "i don't care about privacy because i have nothing to hide" crowd through this...
The ID check and facial scan are going beyond than just verifying that someone is old enough to use social media.
They are being used for other purposes, websites can ask for your ID to prove that you're human, I believe Reddit thought of implementing ID check to prove that you're human (I am NOT sure on that, please correct me if I'm wrong)
WSocial, the social media that is pretty much a meme that everyone makes fun of, they ask for your ID just to prove you're human to even have an account on here.
I am bringing ID verification into this because I feel that Google asking people to show their hands, I feel this is caused by the trend of banning under 13 years old from using social media, which in order to do that, involves asking everyone their ID to prove they're old enough. I think big tech is going "well, verifying people ID to prove they're old enough is now normal, we might as well verify their ID to prove they're human and get some sweet sweet PII from them"
I'm pretty sure big tech's ultimate plan is to lock the internet behind ID so they can extract as much personal information from everyone as possible, the ultimate plan is to normalize scanning everyone. I mean they lobbied really hard for these ID verification laws.
This is why "age verification" is so dangerous, because after that, it's no longer about verifying age, it's going to be used for other purposes.
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Court orders Ohio restrictions on kids’ use of social media restored.
Known as the Social Media Parental Notification Act, the law requires companies to get parental permission for social media and gaming apps.
Ohio’s Parental Notification by Social Media Operators Act, Ohio Revised Code 1349.09, https://codes.ohio.gov/ohio-revised-code/section-1349.09
Part of the law states:
"The operator of an online web site, service, or product that targets children, or is reasonably anticipated to be accessed by children, shall do all of the following:
(1) Obtain verifiable consent for any contract with a child, including terms of service, to register, sign up, or otherwise create a unique username to access or utilize the online web site, service, or product, from the child's parent or legal guardian using any of the following methods:
(a) Requiring a parent or legal guardian to sign and return to the operator a form consenting to the contract by postal mail, facsimile, or electronic mail;
(b) Requiring a parent or legal guardian, in connection with a monetary transaction, to use a credit card, debit card, or other online payment system that provides notification of each discrete transaction to the primary account holder;
(c) Requiring a parent or legal guardian to call a toll-free telephone number implemented by the operator and staffed by trained personnel;
(d) Requiring a parent or legal guardian to connect to trained personnel by videoconference;
(e) Verifying a parent's or legal guardian's identity by checking a form of government-issued identification against databases of such information, and promptly deleting the parent's or legal guardian's identification from the operator's records after such verification is complete.
(2) Present to the child's parent or legal guardian a list of the features offered by an operator's online web site, service, or product related to censoring or moderating content, including any features that can be disabled for a particular profile.
(3) Provide to the child's parent or guardian a web site link at which the parent or legal guardian may access and review the list of features described in division (B)(2) of this section at another time.
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