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‘A kiss of death’: Top GOP tech critics are personae non gratae after election challenge
Hawley and Cruz have been improbable partners to Democrats in the fight against big tech. But after their push to object to Biden’s victory, those alliances are fraying.
Sen. Ted Cruz spokesperson Jessica Skaggs said in a statement that it’s “unfortunate so many Democrats have abandoned President Biden’s calls for unity.” | Michael Reynolds/Pool via AP
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The attempt to block Joe Biden s election win is triggering collateral damage in Washington over tech: unraveling bipartisan alliances of lawmakers fed up with Silicon Valley.
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Updated 1/28/2021 5:36 PM
Paul W. Connell has joined Cozen O Connor as a member of the State Attorneys General Group. He will work out of the firm s Chicago and Washington, D.C. offices.
Connell served as deputy attorney general and senior counsel to Wisconsin Attorney General Brad D. Schimel from 2015 to 2019. In that position, he directed legal strategy in all the state s significant multistate consumer protection cases and advised state agencies and the Office of Governor. As the primary legal adviser to Attorney General Schimel, Connell developed and executed significant policy initiatives that profoundly and positively impacted all aspects of the state economy.
Age-verification protocols put in place by social media sites are ineffective and easily sidestepped by children, a study has found.
The age at which children are allowed on social media platforms varies depending on country, with the UK and US allowing 13-year-olds to have accounts. France, Ireland and Germany, however, have a minimum age of 16.
A report by Lero, an Irish software research centre, found tech-savvy children are able to circumvent these measures with relative ease. This results in children being exposed to privacy and safety threats such as cyberbullying, online grooming, or exposure to content that may be inappropriate for their age, said lead author Dr Liliana Pasquale from University College Dublin.
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Report shows children can bypass age verification procedures on social media apps
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Children of all ages can completely bypass age verification measures to sign-up to the world’s most popular social media apps including Snapchat, Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, WhatsApp, Messenger, Skype and Discord by simply lying about their age, a study by researchers at Lero, the Science Foundation Ireland Research Centre for Software has found.
And even potential age verification solutions identified by the research team can be easily sidestepped by children, according to the team’s most recent study: Digital Age of Consent and Age Verification: Can They Protect Children?