The bill would still need to make its way through the House.

Kids Online Safety Act gains enough supporters to pass the Senate::The bill would create a duty of care for tech platforms to protect child and teen users.

  • malibu43@lemmy.worldEnglish
    30·
    9 months ago

    How will this age verify actually work? Sure the big sites like Facebook might have to follow this law. But won’t this just push kids to use less reputable sites or sites based outside of the US that don’t have to follow US law?

    • Gutless2615@ttrpg.networkEnglish
      20·
      9 months ago

      Data brokers. That’s how this is going to work. Any “privacy” law that empowers, incentivizes and encourages data brokers has fundamentally failed out of the gate

    • General_Effort@lemmy.worldEnglish
      12·
      9 months ago

      In the current draft, age verification is not required. The bill would require a study on the subject to be submitted with 1 year. The study would evaluate the most technologically feasible methods and options for developing systems to verify age at the device or operating system level. Definitely something to be fought every step of the way.

    • Saik0@lemmy.saik0.comEnglish
      9·
      9 months ago

      Probably you have to upload image of your ID… which stops absolutely nothing because you can just AI generate one. All the while it actually hurts normal people since when facebook gets hacked next, the hacker now has all your ID information alongside the other stuff they stole.