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I’m a gamer and a parent. The KIDS Act makes my kids less safe.

theblaze.com · 1h · first reportShare

I was lucky to grow up during the adolescence of the tech age. Sleepovers meant Super Smash Bros. with friends. The 2000s meant building free personal websites and poking around whatever new technology had just appeared. A lot of my formative experiences came from discovering what these tools could do. Now I’m a young father, and I want my kids to have the same chance to enjoy technology’s creativity and connectivity. The KIDS Act risks placing more sensitive information in more places while flattening the very different ways children use technology. Of course, security was always part of the bargain. As technology has evolved, so have the vulnerabilities. But the KIDS Act approaches those risks with a sledgehammer — and may make children less safe in the process. A basic cybersecurity principle is that services should collect as little data as possible — certainly no more than they can reasonably protect. The KIDS Act pushes in the opposite direction. If gaming services and social med