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Thanks for posting the full interview. I agree with you that a "market-based"/parental choice solution isn't really tenable---people are bombarded with too much information already and additional transparency isn't going to help with that.

I'm also skeptical of any solution that requires collecting MORE data on users. Consider what I think is an analogous problem: age verification laws for using porn sites (404media has probably the best encapsulation of it: https://www.404media.co/age-verification-laws-will-drag-us-back-to-the-dark-ages-of-online-porn/). Additional sites/services that have giant databases with personal/private information because of the increasing number of know-your-customer laws just creates additional points of failure in a hack or leak.

I think it would interesting to talk to someone like Cory Doctorow to get his perspective on KOSA/COPPA 2.0 from a data privacy angle. https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/06/privacy-first/

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