Age verification mandates in KOSA and EU's Chat Control threaten online anonymity
The article examines how the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) in the US and Chat Control 2.0 in the EU both retreated from their most controversial provisions (duty of care and mandatory scanning) but retained mandatory age verification requirements. The author argues that age verification is a quietly dangerous mechanism that transforms anonymous browsing into identified browsing for all internet users, representing a form of surveillance that was never democratically voted upon. The piece warns that age verification mandates create infrastructure for universal identification online, threatening privacy and anonymity.
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Age verification is the surveillance nobody voted for.
Both had spent months under fire. Both, notably, retreated.
The quiet mechanism that turns anonymous browsing into identified browsing for all of us.
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