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Texas' age "verification law" is finding opposition.
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Free speech group the Foundation for Individual Rights (FIRE) has gone to court in a bid to block Texas state age verification law, Securing Children Online through Parental Empowerment Act (SCOPE Act, HB 18).
We obtained a copy of the complaint for you here.
This largely Republican-backed law will take effect on September 1, starting when online platforms will be under obligation to register and verify the age of all users.
This will apply if “more than a third” of content on the platforms is considered “harmful” or “obscene.”
But FIRE believes this is a form of pressure to make sure sites collect biometric and ID data from adults in Texas as they access what is lawful (to them) content.
Hence the case, Students Engaged in Advancing Texas v. Paxton, where FIRE is suing state Attorney General Ken Paxton on behalf of four plaintiffs that the group says would
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EU's AI regulation is about to become law
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The original was posted on /r/singularity by /u/jk_pens on 2024-02-05 16:15:37.
On Friday, the EU member nations voted unanimously to approve the EU AI Act, which means it will soon become law after many months of negotiating.
Most of the provisions will not be enforceable until two years after it comes into force, which means early to mid-2026 most likely. It's not clear how much of a chilling effect it will have on progress in the meantime.
The act is a whopping 250 pages (full text of pre-final draft), so here are a couple of resources to help you understand it:
- EU AI Act Assistant: a Custom GPT I slapped together t