Eric Goldman (Santa Clara Law) discusses his new paper, “The ‘Segregate-and-Suppress’ Approach to Regulating Child Safety Online.”
Topics include:
- The many kinds of online age-verification law
- Age verification as an information problem
- Fancy tech as deus ex machina
- Data collection today; state surveillance tomorrow
- What about devices and app stores?
- The internet and Maslow’s hierarchy of needs
- Child safety: it takes a village
- The parental consent nightmare
Links:
The “Segregate-and-Suppress” Approach to Regulating Child Safety Online
Age-Verification Laws Are a Verified Mistake
Tech Policy Podcast 354: Online Age Verification (Sucks)