Foundation for Information Policy Research warns many proposed solutions for age verification will exacerbate harms they are trying to prevent & could expose children to risks of blackmail &…
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“While it is tempting to rely on ‘magic’ technological fixes for online harm, these will not work, will concentrate even more power in the hands of large tech platforms, and will risk letting them off the hook for the wider social harms to which they contribute,” said Ben Collier, FIPR chair and senior lecturer at the University of Edinburgh.
cross-posted from: https://lemmy.today/post/54387756