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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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[–] 5 points 1 week ago

Locally, how does that work?

FWIW, identity verifications schemes that attempt to maintain privacy are a contradiction in terms and cannot work. Same as encryption that both works and doesn't work (backdoors).

Verbose version here: https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/14/bellovin/

Based on paper here: https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/papers/age-verify.pdf

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