Critique of Privacy-Preserving Age Verification and the Role of Expert Agencies in Tech Policy
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Summary
The article critiques the concept of 'privacy-preserving age verification' and argues that politicians don't need to be technical experts to make good tech policy. Instead, they require well-resourced expert agencies to guide them. The piece references the failure in Flint, MI, as an example of policy shortcomings.
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I don't think that it's impossible for politicians, even nontechnical politicians, to make good tech policy.
For politicians to make good policy, they don't need to be technical experts: they need to have solid, independent, well-resourced expert agencies.
Article URL: https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/14/bellovin/
Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=44903351
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