The horror of Age Verification is arriving in Canada 🚨🇨🇦

[em0nm4stodon@infosec.exchange]

The horror of Age Verification is
arriving in Canada

Contact your federal MP and the office of the Prime Minister this week to tell them you strongly oppose the privacy-destroying and inefficient measure.

The time to push back is NOW: https://globalnews.ca/news/11797286/liberal-party-adopts-motion-social-media-ban-kids/

'Prime Minister Mark Carney said last month that the idea “merits an open and considered debate in Canada,” although he does not have a settled view on it yet and said there were good points on both sides.'

Share educational resources with them on the dangers of Age Verification: https://www.eff.org/age

We do NOT want this nightmare in Canada. Fight back for your privacy rights!

#AgeVerification #Privacy #DigitalRights #HumanRights #MassSurveillance #Canada #CanPoli #CndPol

[maxime090@qlub.social]

Mandatory age verification risks creating massive privacy vulnerabilities and could expose sensitive personal data. Protecting kids online is important, but blanket surveillance measures are not the answer.

[robriley@toot.wales]

@Em0nM4stodon ban o. Social media for under 16s is good.

[em0nm4stodon@infosec.exchange]

@robriley Unfortunately, a social media ban is not good.

What this truly means, is requiring every adult using social media to provide official ID to a for-profit third-party company who will inevitably leak it or use it. This is really bad for users' safety. Breaches like this have already happened.

Additionally, it makes every account attached to a legal identity, allowing governments full control and censorship over their critics and opposition. It also endangers the most vulnerable and marginalized groups online, especially people of colour and the LGBTQ+ community. Age Verification leads to horrible outcomes for democracy, and for society as a whole. Moreover, it does not end up protecting the children. This is sadly only used as an excuse to convince people who are misinformed.

I invite you to read more on this topic using this excellent resource prepared by EFF: https://www.eff.org/age

[fiend_unpleasant@mastodon.social]

@Em0nM4stodon Don't these kids have parents? Shouldn't their parents be keeping them safe on the internet? Would these same people let their kids loose in a large city to roam all day and night without supervision?

[sarahquartz@lamp.leemoon.network]

@fiend_unpleasant@mastodon.social @Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange WELL WE'LL...WE'LL...MAKE PEOPLE SHARE THEIR ID BEFORE GRANTING ACCESS TO STREETS! Sounds like a bright future, doesn't it?? /s

[snowyca@social.vivaldi.net]

@Em0nM4stodon

oh well, I suppose we knew this fight was on the political horizon, eh?
Watch as Carney bends the knee.

[purplestephyr@thetransagenda.gay]

@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange emailed my MP.