Reddit User Uncovers Who Is Behind Meta's $2B Lobbying for Age Verification Tech
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- #Age Verification
- #Surveillance
- Meta funneled over $2 billion through nonprofits to push age verification laws.
- Laws would require Apple and Google to build surveillance infrastructure, exempting Meta.
- Meta's lobbying uses nonprofit shells to avoid transparency in 45 states.
- Funding traced through Digital Childhood Alliance (DCA), part of a $70M super PAC strategy.
- Proposed laws mandate OS-level APIs for age verification, creating persistent identity layers.
- Meta's Horizon OS already implements similar age verification in VR.
- Laws target Apple and Google but exempt Meta's social media platforms.
- EU's eIDAS 2.0 offers privacy-preserving age verification with zero-knowledge proofs.
- US laws may force Linux and privacy-focused Android forks to implement surveillance.