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.
>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].
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.
>The article says congress should pass a privacy bill to protect kids.
No. The article says:
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...