Age verification risks tying users’ “most sensitive and immutable data” — names, faces, birthdays, home addresses — to their online activity, EFF’s Molly Buckley told CNBC. “Age verification strikes at the foundation of the free and open internet.” https://www.cnbc.com/2026/03/08/social-media-child-safety-internet-ai-surveillance.html
@eff Most average people hear "free internet" and they do not care. To them it means free speech absolutist fringe ideals where everything, including CSAM is ok. So the framing needs to be how this harms them and their children outside the internet: high or impossible insurance preimums, difficulties accessing jobs and education, no free press, your children on a physical list with their face, ID, and address for irl predators, your entire life potentially ruined with deepfakes/identity theft