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Meta Platforms: Lobbying, dark money, and the App Store Accountability Act

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Post by plagiarist »

derektank wrote: post #784
sippeangelo wrote: post #760

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Please explain how opposition to privacy invasive solutions result in even more privacy invasive solutions being implemented? Is it purely out of spite from the lawmakers? This logic doesn't follow.

It’s obviously worse for your privacy to have third parties handle full images of your drivers license or video of your entire face, which can then be leaked, rather than using a zero knowledge proof that only sends e.g. a birth year. And no, it’s not spite, it’s incoherence. Lawmakers are single minded seekers of re-election to a first degree approximation and will do things to get votes, even if those things don’t…

US lawmakers are single-minded seekers of lobbying and insider trading money, they will sign and trade on whatever ALEC hands them so they receive more money.

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Post by miroljub »

munksbeer wrote: post #761
miroljub wrote: post #615

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The fact that it has to be repeatedly fended off and that the EU regime still tries to push it is a prime example of lobbying^H corruption. They won't give up until they pass. What more do you need?

> that the EU regime still tries to push it Sorry, what is this "EU regime"? I'm not understanding the logic in your post. The people pushing it are certain elected officials of member nations.

I use the same terminology for EU officials that they themselves use when they describe corrupt regimes with low legitimacy they don't control.

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Post by BirAdam »

Pretty sure that the current round of age check laws violates COPPA and FERPA... as transmitting age to any requestor would violate those laws. So, we're just furthering tyranny. Which law gets enforced today, which tomorrow, and who gets targeted?

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?

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Post by mothballed »

bix6 wrote: post #770
swiftcoder wrote: post #731

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> I'm not sure what's a mess about a driver's license, social security card Neither of those are accepted by various states' voter id laws, nor can you reliably board an airplane with them since RealID. The only foolproof identity card in the US appears to be a passport (which, you know, global federal identity card... exactly what the folks against universal ids dislike)

My drivers license is a real id and has been for like 5 years? This is a non issue if you went to the DMV instead of waiting until now.

DHS's own testimony that they've successfully gotten warrants issued on the basis of, is that real id is not realiable.

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Post by thatguy0900 »

redm wrote: post #654

The question I keep coming back to regarding the recent debate around age verification is "Why now?" I'm 47, and I started using the internet in my early teens through BBS gateways. I've seen every age of the Internet, and there's always been widely available pornographic materials. Why all of a sudden is this a crisis? Perhaps I'm missing something?

I wonder if it's because of election interference. Foreign countries bot farms basically have free reign to assault the minds of your people 24/7 online, idk how you stop that outside of identity verification systems

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Post by ben_w »

Mashimo wrote: post #644
ben_w wrote: post #613

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I think it's more that proof of identity from the union of {payment information, KYC} also includes both of age verification and name, not that name leads to age.

Are the payment providers sending the age to the gamling site?

> union of {payment information, KYC}

As in, if you're not matching the payment info to your customer info, you (which may be the company or the government passing the laws the company is following just fine) did it wrong.

Because, as pjc50 wrote, failing to do that is an obvious exploit for money laundering.

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Post by saithir »

deaux wrote: post #606
dotandgtfo wrote: post #554

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What examples of this do you have in recent years (post 2016)? The clearest example of lobbying (chat control) has repeatedly been struck down.

https://noyb.eu/en/project/dpa/dpc-ireland GDPR is entirely unenforced, it's not worth the paper it's written on, and this is due to lobbying. The situation continues to this day. The DPAs simply throw reports of violations into the trash bin. It's hilariously transparent - Ireland recently (less than 6 months ago) added a former _Meta lobbyist_ to their DPA board [0]. US Big Tech is now spending a record €151 millio…

Extending one organization's results to saying "completely unenforced" is definitely something, considering the ~billion of fines per year.
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