Age Verification Mandates: The ‘Protect the Kids’ Scam That’s Building a Permanent Surveillance Grid

About this episode

The episode discusses the implications of new age verification laws in California and their impact on internet privacy and security.

Last year 25 states passed new laws requiring Age verification laws on sites with adult content. While this was pretty bad for Internet Privacy, it was actually trivial to overcome so I did not panic. But CALIFORNIA, decided to up the ante to pass a law that will likely impact all apps that all people use. California now wants age verification to be at the OS Level (Windows, Android, iOS, Linux). Sounds almost minor when you hear it but when you dig into the details, it is a massive change that affects those interested in privacy, like those using Linux and de-Googled phones. ---------------------------------- BraX3 Privacy Phone and New Brax Open_Slate (Linux tablet) are on https://braxtech.net ----------------------------------- Brax Virtual Phone, De-Googled Phones, BytzVPN, BraxMail, BraxRouters are available on https://brax.me ----------------------------------- Merch Store https://my-store-c37a50.creator-spring.com/ ----------------------------------- I'm the Internet Privacy Guy. I'm a public interest technologist. I'm here to educate. You are losing your Internet privacy and Internet security every day if you don't fight for it. Your data is collected with endless…

People in this episode

Host: Rob Braxman

Topics covered

• age verification
• internet privacy
• surveillance
• California laws
• digital security
• data mining

Keywords

• age verification
• internet privacy
• surveillance grid
• California law
• Linux
• de-Googled phones
• data mining
• privacy tools

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: California, BraxTech, Brax.me, my-store-c37a50.creator-spring.com

Products: BraX3 Privacy Phone, Brax Open_Slate

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