464
EU age verification app announced to protect children online (www.dw.com)
submitted 4 months ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
218 comments fedilink hide all child comments
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 6 points 4 months ago (2 children)

Lmao. Anonymous system my ass. You trust the government to do that? And pray tell how the government is going to implement id verification on os? It's such a stupid idea. How are you even going to enforce that? And even if it gets implemented, what's stopping a kid from using an adult's device to bypass it?

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [–] 0 points 4 months ago* (1 child)

    The EU age verification system, of which I’m talking and of which the OP was about, is not baked into the OS. That might be the case in the US. I’m lucky I don’t live there. And this discussion here is about the EU system, not the US one.

    Your ISP has a record over every single website you’ve visited and your payment provider knows 99% of all purchases you’ve made and your phone knows where you’ve been at all times. Your threshold for having to trust that laws prevent wanton use of all this information doesn’t shift with anonymous age gating.

    Frankly the concerns you display in the post reveal to me that you’ve not spent a great detail looking into what’s actually being proposed.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
    •
  • [–] 1 point 4 months ago

    Why doesn't EU investigate criminals and pedos with questionable search queries and website history? The corpos have the data of every individual. It was never about protecting the children in the first place. Otherwise they'd be solving the root of the problem instead of using such half measures.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent