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cmiles74yesterday at 6:20 PM1 replyview on HN

Indeed, social media companies seem to big proponents of the US legislation.

https://www.politico.com/news/2025/09/13/california-advances...


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walrus01yesterday at 7:14 PM

Big social media companies are likely overjoyed to be able to get discrete, government issued info of a person's full legal name, date of birth, residential address (as is printed on US drivers licenses) for advertising and demographic profile targeting purposes. And then be able to correlate it with their existing social media history/clicks/profile, browser fingerprinting, IP address, daily usage patterns, geolocation. It's a massive gift to them.

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