It’s just an excuse to create a “papers please” internet.
I mean, we also have a lot of “papers please” in real life that no one has an issue with and actually serves a useful purpose. So the idea of extending this to the internet is logical and not necessarily a bad thing. It can actually provide something good. HOWEVER implemention is absolute key here, because it’s easy to over reach and collect (and store) way more tha! actually required for simple age verification. Since current tendency among politicians (in all nations) unfortunately leans heavily towards over reaching, as usual we can’t have proper things because the douchebags want to ruin it.
Actually many of us do have issues with the “real life” privacy issues but many may weight it and consider “age verification” (doxing your personal information when it reliably leaks) to be much worse. No matter the implimentation an illegal access or alternative serivce will be much safer.
I have not looked into the sources myself but a Swedish podcsst called “Bli säker podden” that is about cybersecurity had an episode where they talked about this, and it was menetioned the age verification is for big corps with a certain amount of users only, which could mean we are getting a lot of people to the federated social media.
Maybe with this knowledge we can do something about it and get more people away from Meta and Twitter platforms.
Sadly I have little faith their proposal will be reasonable. It‘ll either be too soft or asking for unreasonable measures like broad identification and face IDs.
Depends from country to country.
Denmark for example have issued an age verification app, where no data other than “Allowed/Declined” is leaving the app.
No specific age, no name, no data.
The token is issued by the government.
Hah, so they too prefer to police minors instead of companies.
You mean everyone, not just minors.
It’s what this madness requires: everyone is a child until they can prove otherwise. To an age verification company that’s existed for 2 weeks and definitely isn’t lying or incompetent…
And of course they do. Can’t risk a CEO crying wolf and it being real for once. Think of “the economy”.
I hate this timeline. 😒
It never stops
instead of curbing far right media.
How would you determine what’s “right” enough to be banned and what’s not? Using some state appointed censors?
Does Friedrich Merz approve -> far right
Curb it only on Thursdays?
No, just this coming Thursday.
I would rather see them ban all content with minors. Why do kids have to upload anything on the internet? Let platforms enforce it on their end.
This lady loves rules
About time Europe treated addictive feeds like the product design problem they are. The real test is whether this becomes meaningful age appropriate access with privacy preserving checks, or just another glorious cookie banner where everyone clicks »I’m 18« and TikTok solemnly salutes.
EU already has systems for verifying age and the provider sends no identifiable information to the website. While I find age verification problematic and annoying - where credit is due, they seem to have at least made it so that the citizen data is not being uploaded to US servers.
Oh, it will have access to your privacy… Everything as you like.
