The Hidden Costs of Mandatory Age Verification and KOSA Over the past few years, federal and state legislatures have aggressively pushed bills like the Kids Online Safety Act (KOSA) alongside state-level digital identity laws. While framed around the urgent imperative to protect minors from harmful online content, these top-down mandates create serious structural vulnerabilities. Requiring users to upload government IDs, undergo facial recognition scans, or link biometric dat