I’m still in the camp that thinks this is a push by the ad and marketing companies to improve their targeting.
The world is savvy to invasions of privacy, and many users probably choose ad and tracking blockers of various kinds. I agree the kids need to be educated about this kind of targeting and manipulation, but I’m not sure another booze er…social media prohibition solves any problem.
As Citizen Lab points out, there’s big money and serious players behind all that targeting and surveillance. Why contribute to it?
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is also writing about this. The only way to prove age is to prove identity. Everyone’s. How do I use SocMed without having to prove my age too? When I walk into a bar, no one takes my name or copies my ID and stores it in a system. It is also right-wing governments that (usually) push this, because they want to crush free speech. They want to chill opposition and to know who is criticizing them.
Canadians are being subjected to a new round of psychological operations on this very issue, and the Liberals are being lobbied to hell and back on the subject given how the news is pushing this.
We’re not new to the issue either. In Calgary the public reaction to a mall’s directory and map kiosk allegedly tracking age and gender data of people walking by was largely negative. American interests are trying to massage this back into the public consciousness.
I’m still in the camp that thinks this is a push by the ad and marketing companies to improve their targeting.
The world is savvy to invasions of privacy, and many users probably choose ad and tracking blockers of various kinds. I agree the kids need to be educated about this kind of targeting and manipulation, but I’m not sure another booze er…social media prohibition solves any problem.
As Citizen Lab points out, there’s big money and serious players behind all that targeting and surveillance. Why contribute to it?
https://kopitalk.net/c/canada/p/364736/kids-groups-say-they-didnt-know-openai-was-behind-their-child-safety-coalition
https://citizenlab.ca/research/analysis-of-penlinks-ad-based-geolocation-surveillance-tech/
The Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF) is also writing about this. The only way to prove age is to prove identity. Everyone’s. How do I use SocMed without having to prove my age too? When I walk into a bar, no one takes my name or copies my ID and stores it in a system. It is also right-wing governments that (usually) push this, because they want to crush free speech. They want to chill opposition and to know who is criticizing them.
Canadians are being subjected to a new round of psychological operations on this very issue, and the Liberals are being lobbied to hell and back on the subject given how the news is pushing this.
We’re not new to the issue either. In Calgary the public reaction to a mall’s directory and map kiosk allegedly tracking age and gender data of people walking by was largely negative. American interests are trying to massage this back into the public consciousness.
https://globalnews.ca/news/4355444/chinook-mall-calgary-facial-recognition-technology/
At this point crushing free speech is not limited by political spectrum.