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EU’s new social media child protection rules to require all social media accounts to produce state ID - Leaked documents suggest that some existing accounts will also be subject to identification che… (www.independent.ie)
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Full title: EU’s new social media child protection rules to require all social media accounts to produce state ID - Leaked documents suggest that some existing accounts will also be subject to identification checks

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[–] 23 points 1 week ago (3 children)

Many half-assed ideas will never make a full-assed idea.

Between this and Wsocial, it is pretty clear that whoever is making IT decisions needs to be let go.

This is not Doctorow's enshittification; this is an attempt at domesticating users into thinking it is a normal thing to upload your ID to random cloud servers or hand over your biometric data to use WhatsApp??? This isn't protecting children. It is giving the social media giants permission to allow ads for things like gambling and line their pockets. If I worked in advertising, I'd be pretty happy.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago (2 children)

    You not uploading to cloud, you validate your docs locally

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  • [–] 3 points 1 week ago

    If anything truly local and zero knowledge was allowed, there would be someone sharing their access eu-wide and everyone could install that and be done with it. One person authenticating millions.

    Just due to that every system proposed has at minimum a central authority that does rate limiting.

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