Orwellian: UK bill will mandate implementation of identity and age verification technology on Big Tech platforms

A huge data honeypot.

This Online Safety Bill mandates that services containing pornographic content implement age verification technology and use it to ensure that children “are not normally able to encounter” pornographic content.

Orwellian: UK bill will mandate implementation of identity and age verification technology on Big Tech platforms Uk-bill-online-identity-age-verification

Orwellian: UK bill will mandate implementation of identity and age verification technology on Big Tech platforms Uk-bill-online-identity-age-verification

Large platforms are also required to “offer all adult users of the service the option to verify their identity” (even if identity verification isn’t required to access the service) so that these users can choose to filter out “non-verified users.”

As a result, Big Tech companies, that already hold lots of personal data on their users, are now legally required to offer yet another channel through which they or their partners can scoop up even more personal and highly sensitive data.

This mandated implementation of identity and age verification technology also creates another data honeypot during a time when the number of data breaches and hacks have reached never-before-seen highs.

Not only does this aspect of the bill have massive privacy implications but the bill’s privacy protections are so weak that they often have no impact. The Online Safety Bill also poses a massive threat to free speech by requiring large platforms to censor based on the vague, ambiguous term “harm” and giving the government broad censorship powers.

.https://reclaimthenet.org/uk-bill-online-identity-age-verification/

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Orwellian: UK bill will mandate implementation of identity and age verification technology on Big Tech platforms

Orwellian: UK bill will mandate implementation of identity and age verification technology on Big Tech platforms

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