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'The death of privacy online' โ€” Proton launches interactive map to show age verification laws are spreading fast (www.techradar.com)
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[+] -8 points 3 months ago (10 children)

Ok, so a question i keep on having about this. It seems like there is two flavours: this is awesome because it will protect children or this is terrible because we will have to give out our data to untrustworthy parties all the time. I can very easily see how this is a bad thing that should be prevented. What i cannot see is if there is any possible middle-ground. Are there places where this is implemented reasonably well / could there be a way to have the best of both worlds? I am personally not a fan of being against something in it's entirety, whish there was like a reasonable compromise on this.

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  • [โ€“] 13 points 3 months ago (2 children)

    It won't protect children because it still allows unidentified adults access to children.

    It does however threaten people's privacy as you now need to identify yourself to access certain sites, sites that pinkie promise not to use your personal data but actually can only operate by selling said data. Now tied to your ID. Name, photo, everything.

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  • [โ€“] 6 points 3 months ago

    What i cannot see is if there is any possible middle-ground.

    Almost every campaign, or anti-loss of privacy article or site that is fighting against this sort of thing, shows examples of much better options that allow for protection of online shit for kids and other alike, while maintaining other users privacy. This is all about data, nothing else. Do not kid yourself otherwise.

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  • [โ€“] 2 points 3 months ago (4 children)

    You can't verify age without exposing identity, so there's no good way to implement it. Any supposed benefits are massively outnumbered by drawbacks.

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  • [โ€“] 9 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    You can't verify age without exposing identity

    Of course you can.

    This is exactly the same mechanism required as is used for token authorization.

    The entity verifying your identity needs to be trusted to do so, and it gives you a proof of age category (doesn't need to be exact age, so it shouldn't give that), that the service then can validate.

    A government service that already knows who you are, can validate your identity and hand out these tokens, which are then used to access said restricted services. Done correctly and neither need to know who accessed what.

    But, this isn't done that way. Because, this isn't about protecting children. It's about collecting data and building profiles.

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  • [โ€“] 4 points 3 months ago (1 child)

    Any supposed benefits are massively outnumbered by drawbacks.

    That seems obvious far yes. The downvotes i'm getting seem to imply i am not getting that.

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