How do we make sense of digital strategy seemingly in disarray?

Michael Geist/The Globe and Mail: Kids may be a reliable way to frame policies in need of support, but there is ample reason for skepticism. Bans and backdoor access to security systems have not worked elsewhere and are likely to cause their own harms, including weakened security, privacy risks that accompany requiring tens of millions of Canadians to verify their age to use social media, the reputational damage to Canadian privacy from the reduced role of the Privacy Commissioner, and the potential exodus of leading tech companies that provide essential security services. If these come to pass, it will be Canadian kids who ultimately pay the price for the digital policy missteps of two weeks in June…