There is a leaked document of the proposal related to EU KIDS Act , which proposes requiring age verification for all online games. Also note that this proposal is not anywhere near to pass. But it exists and is going to be dicussed

Stop Killing the Internet initiative

If you're EU citizen sign this petition: https://eci.ec.europa.eu/066/public/

Source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mQRcK9nYg9g

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[–] 1 point 9 hours ago (1 child)

Is it illegal to spoof this for games?

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  • [–] 2 points 9 hours ago* (last edited 8 hours ago)

    Almost certainly yes.

    Fabricating ID is what is going to be illegal in literally any country, though if you fabricated the ID type of another country, your home country may or may not consider this illegal.

    Bypassing biometric scan will be illegal in the jurisdiction that the law is enforced if its done with the purposes of bypassing a national law.

    Depending on how archaic your legal system is, it may even be prosecutable if only because you violated the policy of a business in your same nation.

    Because we live in a dystopian hell hole you'll also need to at least consider legal alliances between countries or organizations such as Interpol.

    This is all a bit of a mix of what the proposed laws are looking like, and some cautious approximation, and some good ol' sense.

    I'm going to do it anyway if I need to use a service that requires it, even if it breaks local laws.

    Using a trusted VPN (Mullvad for instance) alongside fake credentials would better protect you but your games are also tied to your personal accounts unless you've created new ones on a VPN (or Tor).

    You would then need to ensure you never log into that account without the VPN, and should use an OS without overreaching telemetry, and use a single-use burner email always with VPN and a payment method not traceable to you such as a prepaid card or gift card purchased in a place without clear cameras and with cash that's been shuffled around a little bit, rather than from your bank.

    And even still, I'm missing a ton of other identifying factors, and nothing is guaranteed, and many Tor nodes are compromised, and VPN laws could change and buildings could be raided and even with no logs in theory your data could be extracted from frozen RAM.

    Basically what I'm saying is if you want to hide from the law, you'd better do it right. Or you'd better do it to stand by your principles, knowing the risk. Or you'd better comply - that last one is what they want you to do. OR... you never interact with any service that requires these systems, because that's the only way to kill them before they become even worse.

    Enjoy the gaming!

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