{"id":216731,"date":"2026-05-19T06:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T10:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/the-guard-act-would-sacrifice-privacy-and-parental-rights\/"},"modified":"2026-05-19T15:35:51","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T19:35:51","slug":"the-guard-act-would-sacrifice-privacy-and-parental-rights","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/the-guard-act-would-sacrifice-privacy-and-parental-rights\/","title":{"rendered":"The GUARD Act would sacrifice privacy and parental rights"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.org\/backgrounder\/the-guard-act-would-sacrifice-privacy-and-parental-rights\/\">The GUARD Act would sacrifice privacy and parental rights<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/reason.org\/backgrounder\/the-guard-act-would-sacrifice-privacy-and-parental-rights\/\">https:\/\/reason.org\/backgrounder\/the-guard-act-would-sacrifice-privacy-and-parental-rights\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-19 06:00:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"reason.org\">reason.org<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The GUARD Act mandates universal age verification on every American chatbot user, forcing adults to verify their identity, which undermines the First Amendment right to anonymous speech.<\/li>\n<li>It creates criminal liability for companies that fail to comply with vague standards related to protecting minors from harmful content, imposing hefty fines.<\/li>\n<li>The act bans minors from accessing AI companion products without allowing parental judgment to override, removing parents&#8217; control over their children&#8217;s exposure to technology.<\/li>\n<li>There is concern about creating a national identity database for chatbot users, increasing the risk of data breaches and surveillance.<\/li>\n<li>The bill allows states to impose stricter regulations, leading to fragmented and potentially conflicting compliance obligations for developers.<\/li>\n<li>The Act&#8217;s overarching approach raises privacy issues and its effectiveness in improving child safety remains questionable.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The GUARD Act would sacrifice privacy and parental rights https:\/\/reason.org\/backgrounder\/the-guard-act-would-sacrifice-privacy-and-parental-rights\/ Publish Date: 2026-05-19 06:00:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":216732,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/a8d50b36.delivery.rocketcdn.me\/wp-content\/uploads\/dreamstime_m_27632821-1024x549.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-216731","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216731"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=216731"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216731\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":216733,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/216731\/revisions\/216733"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/216732"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=216731"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=216731"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=216731"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}