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FIGHT FOR YOUR RIGHTS MAKE THIS VIRAL ! This was sent to all major papers in USA- **The Age-Verification Rush Is Really About Building Digital ID Infrastructure** Lawmakers are moving with unusual speed to impose age-verification requirements when visiting websites, and the public framing of this is simple, yet emotionally charged: to protect children. But the policy architecture being drafted goes far beyond this narrow purpose, and we should be honest about what is being built. To verify an individual’s age online in any meaningful way, platforms must reliably link a real person to a persistent identity, whether it’s through government ID scans, biometric checks, or third-party services. This “digital plumbing” becomes reusable infrastructure that can and will be misused. Two concerns deserve particular scrutiny. First, there is the risk of mass data collection. Age-verification systems generate stores of sensitive data, often managed by opaque third-party vendors. Even when companies promise deletion, breaches, repurposing, and scope creep are well-documented. Take the Salt Typhoon hack for example, the FBI told Congress years ago backdoors were safe to use, but soon after, the entire U.S. government was hacked, including the President of the United States. Another example is that as soon as India released its Digital ID in 2018, the system was hacked, and now nearly a billion people have had their personal information stolen. More recently, in January of 2025, tens of millions of Social Security numbers were hacked from the New Jersey vendor, Conduent, which processes payments to health insurers. The second risk is future-use uncertainty. Policymakers today may have narrow intentions, but infrastructure tends to outlive the political moment that created it. So what will happen if these sets of rules and laws become commonplace? Not only will people have their data hacked, their credit cards stolen far more frequently and loans taken out in their name, things will get dark quickly. Travel restrictions? Check (China's social credit system already bars millions from buying plane tickets). Banned topics? Check (the EU's Digital Services Act has compelled platforms to remove legal speech). Freezing your bank account? Check (Canada froze the accounts of truckers who donated to a protest in 2022). No Freedom of the Press? Check (reporters in Hungary are systematically shut down). Share a meme? Check (See the Met Police and the UK). Abstract rules and laws have real victims. Let's put a human face on it. A friend of yours criticizes a politician for their links to organized crime. Soon after it’s your friend that is being investigated by the police (this is standard practice in Hungary, Russia and Turkey today). Or if you criticize a government official for taking bribes? Maybe now instead of the official getting in trouble, you’re the one accused of harassing them. You may be placed on a list, maybe you’re a terrorist? If you’re gay or trans, and the area you live in is more conservative you’ll be watched (see Russia's "gay propaganda" laws or Uganda's Anti-Homosexuality Act). If you’re a religious person in a secular community now you’re a target. (In Sweden Parents have been separated from their children if they’re too religious) You want to homeschool your kids, you’re a threat (home education is illegal in Germany). Opening up a business? Now maybe you won’t be allowed. What can we do to prevent this 1984 digital dystopia? If age verification is truly necessary in some contexts, then policymakers should be pressed to have strict guardrails, such as: · Data minimization requirements · Liability for vendors that retain, sell, or misuse identity data · Frequent independent security audits and sunset mechanisms · Limits and transparent rules on how algorithms and AI are used on bulk data · Narrow scope to avoid mission creep · Governments should need warrants to access data So far, the public debate has been moving much faster than the technical and civil liberties analysis would normally justify. Speed is a warning sign in policy. Before we normalize Digital ID, we should pause and answer a basic question: are we solving a narrowly defined safety problem, or are we quietly laying the groundwork for a far more expansive digital ID ecosystem? Unfortunately, there is a real risk that we will drift toward a Digital Panopticon — a place where widespread surveillance chills legitimate criticism of government institutions or corporations, whether liberal or conservative. Democracy is sacred, but it is not guaranteed. It requires the constant protection of civil liberties, transparency, and limits on concentrated power. How we handle these issues will shape the future of online speech and privacy for decades.

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