Protecting data privacy and protecting children’s online safety are well-intentioned goals that lawmakers should hesitate to legislate.

Legislative solutions are often ill-thought-out, relying on external people to figure out how to solve an impossible problem: data privacy with no trade-offs. The very mechanism of providing data privacy or protection often involves aggregating and collecting that very same data in a thoroughly insecure manner. Proponents of government actions mandating data protection are left with solutions that are either so ineffectual they can be bypassed or methods so effective they violate the very privacy they’re meant to protect. A few examples can illustrate this principle.

The Tea is a women-only app meant to protect women who may be cautious of online strange

See Full Page