An age verification bill in Kansas that is the most extreme in the country has passed both House and Senate and is on its way to the governor’s desk. The bill will make sites with more than 25 percent adult content liable to heavy fines if they don’t verify that visitors are over the age of 18. It also calls being gay “sexual conduct,” which critics say could set up the state for more censorship of LGBT+ citizens.
The next step of this sort of thing is:
To verify your age, we need your name, birthday, social security number, current address, phone number, and a major credit card on file.
We will store this information in plain text at databreach.gov.