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

  • Pxtl@lemmy.ca
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    1 month ago

    Honestly? State ID is better than the current solution which is giving Thiel-affiliated companies photo and other data.

    Ideally I’d rather have a governments provided digital ID that’s more secure and just gives the company limited metadata instead of full ID info provided from gov’t to company. Put in rules requiring warrants or subpoenas for lookups.

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      1 month ago

      Who do you think is checking those ids? Hint: it’s not the government, it’s some 3rd party company, always.

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        1 month ago

        With cryptographic systems like the EU uses, it must go through the government because a 3rd party can’t implement that verification/response pattern without access to the proper gov’t cryptographic secrets.

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          The one that won’t even allow me tonuse the system if google dont like inuse my phone the way I want ? The one needes google verification to even launch.

    • DrunkenDuckling@lemmus.org
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      People are morons. Here we have an open source and anonymous framework for age-verifcation (free for anyone to read and check the source code: https://ageverification.dev/) developed by a people’s institution and people lump it into the same boat as some private USA company photocopying your ID.