Episode 57 - Age Verification Is Becoming Digital Border Control
Closed Network Privacy Podcast
Age verification becomes infrastructure control
Simon traces how age gates evolve into checkpoints that can require identity, harming anonymous access to lawful content.
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TOPICS
Section 702 reauthorization bill still lacks a warrant requirement
Top Priority Stories for On-Air
1. Utah targets VPNs around age verification — age gates become privacy-tool restrictions.
2. Canvas/Instructure breach — centralized school platforms become student dossiers.
3. Citizen Lab: adtech powers Webloc surveillance — commercial tracking becomes state surveillance.
4. DHS sought Google data over anti-ICE speech — platform-held data becomes political surveillance leverage.
5. GM privacy settlement — cars are data brokers with wheels.
6. Meta removes opt-in encrypted Instagram DMs — defaults are policy; optional privacy dies quietly.
7. New Orleans live facial recognition — local biometric surveillance outruns public consent.
8. LinkedIn GDPR paywall complaint — platforms monetize access to your data while resisting legal access rights.
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