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The reason a lot of us take issue with the age-verificarion steps is that while the stated intent is saftey, we are prtty sure none of those guard rails will be implemented. Noone will enforce the fines of telemtry harvesting and fines not high enough are just the cost of doing business.
Noone trusts the entities pushing for these changes to be good stewards of these additional data points and most tech experts are skeptical that they will be effective to begin with. The benifits are negligable and the erosion of user privacy (as pitiful as it is with everyones personal wiretaps) is unacceptable.
Parents and tech companies, if they want features like this need to go back to the drawing board and try again, use the parental control features already embedded in devices and stop trying to shove Orwellian shit into every new requirement.