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The House Passed the KIDS Act–The Senate Should Reject It

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6 points by nobody9999 23 days ago · 2 comments

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midas89 23 days ago

The article says congress should pass a privacy bill to protect kids.

But it's never about the kids. It's always about surviellance and tracking people. For corporations it allows better monetization while for the government it allows better control.

  • nobody9999OP 23 days ago

    >The article says congress should pass a privacy bill to protect kids.

    No. The article says:

       Protect Privacy For *Everyone*
    
       There is a better way to protect young people online. 
       Instead of encouraging a complicated system of age 
       checks, more monitoring, and more restrictions on access 
       to information, Congress could finally pass a strong, 
       comprehensive privacy law[0] that benefits all users. A 
       great place to start would be to ban behavioral 
       advertising that tracks us across the web—again, for 
       users of all ages.
    
    I'm trying to read your comment in the most charitable way, but it doesn't reflect the article's verbiage or the EFF's position. The best I can come up with is that you badly misunderstood the article and/or the proposed privacy legislation for everyone linked in said article.

    Or am I missing something? Do tell.

    [0] They even helpfully link to the privacy law they advocate here[1].

    [1] https://www.eff.org/wp/privacy-first-better-way-address-onli...

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