🇨🇦 Google will now guess your kid’s age with AI

The funniest part is the sales pitch: trust the same Silicon Valley machine that hoovers up every click, location ping, and search term to protect children by profiling them even harder. Google is rolling out AI age estimation for users in Canada, as reported, which means a foreign tech giant gets one more excuse to decide who you are before you do. That is not child safety. That is automated identity management dressed up in paternal concern.

And of course Canada is the perfect testing ground: weak political class, zero instinct for sovereignty, endless appetite for outsourced governance. Ottawa cannot secure borders, stop crime, or build housing, but somehow the regime and its corporate adjuncts are always ready with a new digital supervision tool. Today it is age inference for minors. Tomorrow it is broader algorithmic gatekeeping sold as safety, wellness, and community standards. Trudeau’s Canada keeps handing basic civic authority to unaccountable multinationals, then calls it progress with a straight face.

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