Having been involved with the act since 2019, Burns described its drafting as "classic rent seeking – a policy term meaning when the lobbyists basically get to draft a law in their own interests". "The OSA has basically been legislated in this way in order to create a business model for age verification providers," she added. "People don't understand that. "The other thing they don't understand – although they may be starting to figure this out – is that if you're age verifying children, you're age verifying everyone. All of us are going to have to start giving our identification to any one of these providers, some of whom don't have great cybersecurity practices."
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