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@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz2025-08-18 13:13:25
Content warning: good analysis of "age verification" practicalities / risks
Really good clear explanation from @…, laying out various problems and risks with trying to implement "age verification" online.
"Firstly, in order to prove your age you’re being asked to hand over some fairly important personal details. ... Usually the company you’re handing these details to is a third party, often one you will never have heard of before. ...
"The data that is being collected for age verification purposes is extremely tempting to hackers ... and at the moment there is no specific regulation outlining the security standards that these companies should meet ...
"Let’s say all the current age verification providers are incredibly robust, though. ... The question still remains... should you be sharing this information with random websites anyway?
"... once you’ve trained the population of an entire country to routinely hand over their credit card details in order to access content, you have given them an incredibly bad habit that it’s going to be tough to break. ... You don’t just prove your age once, after all, you potentially have to do it dozens of times, to access a bunch of different websites. Everything from BlueSky to PornHub to Spotify and even maybe Wikipedia. It becomes a weekly or perhaps monthly occurrence. Just as individual users don’t tend to read every website’s terms and conditions, it’s unlikely they’re all going to do due diligence checks on every provider who asks for ID, especially once they’ve become used to just handing that data over.
"And although that may not be a problem for _you_, you tech-savvy cleverclogs, if you’ve ever found yourself in the position of unpaid IT support for one of your less knowledgeable friends or relatives, hopefully you can see why it’s a huge problem for the UK population more broadly."
And more!
#AgeVerification #OnlineSafetyAct #OSA
@luana@wetdry.world2025-08-23 13:06:24
Any good articles on everything bad about age verification and the lack of privacy they bring and stuff, and why it’s a bad idea to give websites your ID or let the government know every website you use?
Yes there are plenty of fedi toots talking about this but I want like a single link I can easily send people when they defend this shit.
#AgeVerification #OnlineSafetyAct
@jdrm@social.linux.pizza2025-07-07 14:31:26
He encontrado un error en el script que hice para cifrar directorios mediante #age que se cargaba la llave privada si no estaba protegida por contraseña... https://codeberg.org/jdrm/dage/src/tag
@jdrm@social.linux.pizza2025-05-30 18:10:30
@bird@birdbox.party2025-08-04 02:29:52
Since the UK and to an extant the EU governments like age verification so much and asking for photo ID from people for using the internet, how long until the provider that handles these verifications has a data breach?
Of course, the politicians will be fine, they probably all have their VPN apps which have likely been filed as an expense somewhere.
#Internet #Censorship #AgeVerification
@david@boles.xyz2025-08-05 17:28:51
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@unchartedworlds@scicomm.xyz2025-08-01 08:36:10
Content warning: Online Safety Act / "age verification"
Good short thread from @…, summarising some of why the "age verification" framework is bad, plus Peter Kyle's disgraceful comment the other day.
(a lot packed into a few words!)
#OnlineSafetyAct #AgeVerification #PeterKyle #UK #UKLaw