Any member of Congress who votes yes today on the KIDS Act—empowering the government at parents’ expense and turning every American into a surveillance target—should be removed from office.
OK, I never thought I would ever agree on anything with this Congresswoman. I am speechless and she is right. Go ahead, screen shot and bookmark this. You know who you are.
Republicans are using kids as a smokescreen for what Big Tech lobbyists want: a national surveillance program to harvest our data with zero protections for people and their privacy.
We must fight this dangerous expansion of surveillance technology.
AOC: We don’t have to talk about this as if it’s a hypothetical issue. Just a couple of months ago, Discord tried to roll out “age verification.” They contracted with a third party to conduct facial scanning — not just of kids, but also of adults. They decided to launch a teen default setting where they would lock users into a teen-appropriate experience. Which, mind you, if you are an adult who does not opt in, you then get cordoned off into the teen experience. Explain to me how that has anything to do with children’s safety.
The only way to get out of that censored version is by scanning your face. What’s more shocking is that Discord made the decision to move forward with this after they had been hacked and 70,000 users had their data stolen.
Just wrapped up testimony in South Dakota against the App Store Accountability Act - HB 1275.
The committee voted 5-4 to kill the bill in committee. Not fully dead until sine die
These policy do not “empower parents” they force a government mandate on ALL citizens to provide age verification to download ANY app. These tools are already available to parents with flexibility for their family situation. The bill also does nothing to “protect kids” - that’s the sales pitch to sell Digital ID.