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Together with President Von der Leyen, we presented the EU KIDS ACT. This changes the way services for minors are built, making them safe by design.
The KIDS ACT is built on:
✅ Age limits for social media
✅ Safety by design,
✅ Privacy-preserving age verification
✅ Effective enforcement, building on existing DSA and AI Act structures
An important step towards a safer online world for our children.
@HennaVirkkunen that is a horrible idea! Handing all Europeans ID data to these monstrous companies upon their request stands in direct conflict with your job to protect Europeans!
@HennaVirkkunen please don’t.
This is the wrong solution for the wrong problem.
@HennaVirkkunen Please listen to the critique by institutions like Netzpolitik, Chaos Computer Club, and similar organisations. Or the German Kindeschutzbund.
This law feels very(!) authoritarian, fascist, and inspired by BigTech. Also see https://ohai.social/@senficon/117286642437725934 and especially https://chaos.social/@guenther/117286699979300330 - you are not only killing free internet, but also free computers in general.
And this while stripping freedom of speech and therefore freedom in general.
This is bad. Stop this law.
@HennaVirkkunen Perhaps start with enforcing existing legislation. And start regulation big tech alone.
Have free and open stuff always as an exception. Or stuff will be like with "Freifunk" and NIS-2.....
Sorry, I'm quite disappointed right now, to disappointed to write longer explanations.
@HennaVirkkunen Please listen to the critique by institutions like Netzpolitik, Chaos Computer Club, and similar organisations. Or the German Kindeschutzbund.
This law feels very(!) authoritarian, fascist, and inspired by BigTech. Also see https://ohai.social/@senficon/117286642437725934 and especially https://chaos.social/@guenther/117286699979300330 - you are not only killing free internet, but also free computers in general.
And this while stripping freedom of speech and therefore freedom in general.
This is bad. Stop this law.
age-verification requires that you can not get access to the net without identify yourself, so making the internet a big distopian surveillance-machine.
You are pushing members of vulnerable groups, privacy-concerned people, minorities etc. out of the internet.
Only Nazis, haters, russian and U.S. propaganda, advertisers and scammers will stay.
The result will be a platform controlled by american nazi-bigtechs for nazis.
@HennaVirkkunen While kids need to be protected, age limits just lead to the platforms collecting more data about all people without really protecting kids. Attack the problem at the source and ban algorithmic social media.
#agelimits #protecting_children #socialmedia #europe
@HennaVirkkunen Bold to write on Mastodon about killing Mastodon. I don't see any carve outs for small or nonprofit platforms?
The moment you have to prove your age, you lose all privacy @HennaVirkkunen.
This is fact.
And doing so, you provide verified data to commercial platforms. For free.
I do not even talk about hacks and data leaks.
This decision is pure non-sense. Pure non-sense.
The UK played canary and proved that online age verification at best doesn't work and at worse is actively harmful.
Yet the EU insists on wanting to slam their head into the wall itself.
Of course, everyone even slightly aware on the topic knows this has nothing to do with "protecting children". This is all about getting ID verification for everyone on the Internet through a backdoor policy.
@HennaVirkkunen you cannot solve a problem by targeting the victims, you need to target the perpetrators. Age verification does not protect kids, it expose everyone.
@HennaVirkkunen How are you addressing the fact that the reference app (The digital wallet) appears to require hardware attestation depending on APIs controlled by an American duopoly? How can we make sure that every country develops a secure, 100% privacy-preserving solution that does not put us at the mercy of american surveillance capitalists?
https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/eudi-app-android-wallet-ui/issues/390
@HennaVirkkunen While you could argue that it's only a reference implementation and that each member state is free to decide for themselves how they want to implement the age verification, we all know that few if any would deviate from a reference implementation if they can at all help it
@HennaVirkkunen
All of the above! ☝️
Completely wrong direction.
Regulate platforms, not people!
@HennaVirkkunen you do not care about kids. And this is not a kids protection, is mass surveillence, which you love
@HennaVirkkunen
This is really very very stupid and a massive gift to X, Alphabet and Meta.
It will not preserve privacy.
If it depends on something local on an app*, then that feeds the duopoly of Alphabet / Google and Apple.
This is the stupidest EU thing ever!
[* Secure local verification with no transmission on-line is almost fantasy]
@HennaVirkkunen Please don’t. Better put restrictions on the algorithms. Age verification only gives these data hoarders more data about *everyone* because every user has to identify with its age (how to otherwise know if an account is a parent or child). And yes, also a yes/no age request tells these companies the age because the children wil reauthenticate on their birthday as soon as they turn 15.
@HennaVirkkunen you are forcing big tech players to build surveillance infrastructure, while drowning out smaller players, and doing nothing effective against child abuse online.
@HennaVirkkunen It makes the internet unsafe for everyone. Anonymity is a right!
Congratulations on finally destroying Internet anonimity.
For far too long the unruly citizenry could unjustly and anonymously call out the alleged transgression of politicians and their paymasters.
The "internet passport" was two decades in the making. It's an accomplishment all future authoritarians will be grateful for.
@HennaVirkkunen You just protect the financial interests of big tech. Instead of regulating Meta you make it hard to impossible for small sites to comply, and this is in direct opposite to digital independence. Shame.
@HennaVirkkunen Surveillance for everyone! Including all the extremely severe drawbacks.
Going forward, an autonomous social media account would require children to be 15. For 13-14 year-olds, parents could set up mini accounts with limited features and screen time, while keeping full oversight.
https://ec.europa.eu/commission/presscorner/detail/en/ip_26_1890
@HennaVirkkunen This is a very bad idea. There are much better ways to save children from online harm. And thecdark patterns and predatory behaviour of the large "social media" sites affect grownups as well. Why don't you regulate them much more?
@HennaVirkkunen
It will require everyone to lose privacy & a major win for the big so-called Social Media sites to make more money out of people's identity.
Also the ID proof will be hacked/leaked. You can change a password, but not your biometrics or real ID.
It's nothing like age control on "bricks & mortar" shops and pubs as there only younger people are asked for ID and in most places not scanned & stored (it might be in USA, but never in Ireland).
"EU-Kommission will Netz mit Alterskontrollen zupflastern"
"Grundrechte von Kindern und Erwachsenen „massiv“ beeinträchtigt"
"Eine erste Einschätzung zum konkreten Gesetzentwurf kommt von der Sprecherin des Chaos Computer Clubs, Elina Eickstädt. „Der bekannt gewordene Vorschlag der EU-Kommission erfüllt beinahe alle Bedenken, die wir im Hinblick auf Altersfeststellung online haben“, schreibt sie auf Anfrage. Der Vorschlag würde „das Ende von freier und anonymer Internetnutzung bedeuten“. Derweil blieben wesentliche technische Fragen ungelöst. Das Konzept der Eltern-Accounts berge „immense Gefahr in Hinblick auf Überwachung durch Eltern“."
https://chaos.social/@netzpolitik_feed/117281272691515912
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