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Leonard Navarro

Meet Leonard Navarro, a cyber security executive with a track record of over a decade in the industry. Leonard's mission is to leverage innovative technologies to enhance safety for people and resilience for businesses. His experience spans from leading investigative projects to managing global security monitoring organizations, as well as working with legal tech and overseas cyber security orchestration start-ups. As the head of Business Development at Nametag, Leonard brings a unique perspective to the table, blending his deep knowledge of the market with creative thinking to connect diverse individuals and organizations. He excels at closing new business, developing novel strategies that maximize creativity and visibility across new media, marketing channels, and product communications. Whether navigating high-growth businesses or bringing new technologies to market, Leonard's keen insights and leadership skills are highly valued by his colleagues and clients alike.

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Contributor Brief·Leonard Navarro · 2 articles
Updated Jan 20, 2023

Age verification technology cannot solve child safety without regulatory backbone

Navarro argues that biometric and identity verification systems alone are insufficient to protect minors online, and that meaningful child safety requires coordinated legislative frameworks like California's ADCA to establish enforceable design standards. He contends that the rapid scale of digital platforms—serving 4.7 billion social media users—has outpaced both technological safeguards and the legal structures needed to deploy them effectively.

4.7B

social media users globally—exceeding legal oversight capacity

“Internet connection and social media use clocks in at 5 billion and 4.7 billion users respectively.”

Identity and Biometrics: What's Going on with Age Verification?

Scale of digital exposure vs. regulatory frameworks

Total internet users5
Social media users4.7
Covered by COPPA (minors)0.8

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48%Total internet
Total internet users
Social media users
Covered by COPPA (minors)

2017

year half the world first came online simultaneously

The year 2017 marked the first time ever that half of the world's population got online.

Identity and Biometrics: What's Going on with Age Verification?

Increased use of technology during the pandemic due to distance learning continues to expose children to inappropriate content and predators.

California Passes Internet Age-Appropriate Design Code Act (ADCA)

“COPPA alone cannot address the scale and velocity of modern platform-driven child exposure risks.”

Themes:Regulatory lag behind platform scaleBiometric verification as necessary but insufficient safeguardLegislative design standards as structural solution

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