The Electronic Frontier Foundation argues that the Youth AI Privacy Act’s age-verification and “safe design” mandates would require platforms to collect more data on minors, undermining privacy rather than protecting it. EFF contends the bill’s content-based “safe design” requirements function as speech regulation likely to face First Amendment challenges similar to those that struck down comparable state laws. The organization proposes universal privacy protections that apply to all users rather than minor-specific rules that require extensive age verification systems.
