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The House passed the KIDS Act to require age verification across websites, citing child safety. Privacy advocates worry the bill will mandate ID checks and data collection.
The House passed the KIDS Act requiring websites to verify users' ages, citing child safety. The bill frames age verification as a tool to protect minors from inappropriate content and predators. Privacy advocates worry the mandate will force platforms to collect government ID, biometric data, or other sensitive identifiers at scale across the internet.
The trade-off is obvious: age verification actually works if it requires real identity data, but that means websites collect and store millions of government IDs. That's a privacy and security risk—more data means more targets for breaches. Some verification methods avoid ID collection but are less reliable. The bill is headed to the Senate, where the privacy concerns will likely resurface. The intent to protect kids is sound, but the implementation could create new vulnerabilities.
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