Meta's $2B Secret Lobbying for Device-Level Surveillance
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Meta is secretly spending billions to lobby for device-level surveillance laws that track user age while exempting its own platforms from the regulations.
Age Verification
Policies and technologies requiring users to prove their age or identity before accessing online services, and the privacy, civil liberties, and practical implications of such mandates.
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Ageless Linux: Challenging California's Age-Verification 'Compliance Moat'
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Ageless Linux is a project of deliberate civil disobedience that uses a Debian-based script to challenge the legality and ethics of California's mandatory age-verification laws.
Choosing Digital Isolation Over Identity Verification
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The author would rather abandon most online services and rely on self-hosting than comply with mandatory identity or age verification.