Electronic Frontier Foundation
The FTC’s new policy on age verification "will allow businesses to do more of what they want to do, which is vacuum up young people's information," EFF’s @Adam_D_Schwartz told MediaPost. "It's a threat to privacy to force people to upload this information." https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/413093/ftc-endorses-age-verification-tech.html
FTC Endorses Age-Verification Tech

Web companies can collect personal information from young children in order to verify their ages, the FTC said this week in a new policy statement.

Mar 1 at 7:32pmTypefully
Show threadJustin HittMar 3
@eff @Adam_D_Schwartz This is a boon for data brokers who can leverage the children's verification details to backdoor parents' data. Then, when kids are 18, market the crap out of them.