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Electronic Frontier Foundation
@eff.org

The KIDS Act will effectively create a new mass surveillance system, EFF’s @irmck.bsky.social wrote for @coindesk.com. Your current online usage is not necessarily linked to your specific identity; if this bill passes, that will likely change.

coindesk.comThe KIDS Act is way worse than digital carding — it is a mass surveillance systemThe fact that lawmakers are even contemplating a bill that would create a surveillance and censorship regime should be a wake-up call for everyone who values privacy and free expression, argues Electr...

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Hikari Mao
@hikari-mao.bsky.social

The KIDS Act is why companies are building Al data centers. They don't need them for their AI chat bots or Generative AI slop, they need it for processing all the linked data to IDs should these laws pass, which is precisely why all the big tech companies like meta are actively funding to pass this.

Hikari Mao
@hikari-mao.bsky.social

These laws WILL NOT protect any child, WILL put all of our data at risk, data that we can't change such as our faces and image, our voices, our medical information, all things that will get entangled into the corporate web of surveillance should these unconstitutional slop laws get passed.

Hikari Mao
@hikari-mao.bsky.social

The hidden intent of these laws is to make a mandate that we are all tracked by data harvesting companies working on the behalf of authoritarians to chill civic participation online, to transform the internet from a vehicle for social change to a vehicle of coercive societal control.

Hikari Mao
@hikari-mao.bsky.social

It's the most important battle of our generation against the rich and powerful Epstein class, and we are losing this battle around the globe as governments in the EU and UK, & Australia enact these laws, while many other countries seek to do the same. This law pairs horribly with NSPM7 & NDAA 2027.