Post by @_elena@mastodon.social
Does anyone have any insights / scoops about the upcoming #EUKidsAct, set to be introduced this Thursday to "age gate" access to social media platforms across the EU? (Thus forcing every citizen to upload their government ID to establish their age)
I'm super worried about the impact on the #OpenSocialWeb and the Fediverse in particular.
🔗 : https://www.politico.eu/article/eu-to-propose-new-legislation-on-minors-protection-on-thursday/
I wish they would share a clear description of the platforms affected by this legislation.
@_elena urgh... Is there any way to do #ageverification privately and securely? It doesn't look like it.
Didn't the EU's solution get hacked on day one?
@patrickleavy@mastodon.social @_elena@mastodon.social Yes yes, you could do that as a non profit.
In person events for looking at your ID, generating 10k unique hashes for you, hosting a website that will say per hash "Yay, it's a valid adult person" and invalidate that. Make ToS that it is illegal to give away the hashes (unenforceable, but neither is "lending" your ID to your younger similar looking sibling).
No need to attach the hashes to the ID or the event or whatever.
Still a bad idea, though, because it will certainly exclude access to some people anyways. And nobody will do something like that, because they WANT to have the ID attached to accounts and posts. That's the only reason they do this.
@helpsterTee @_elena yeah I was wondering about that. Something you do in person (post office, library) but wasn't sure how that would translate to online.
I would prefer parents to police this, not governments and big tech.
I would prefer parents to police this, not governments and big tech.Yes.....every parent has the obligation to educate and raise their children...we have mechanisms in charge that will come into play, if they don't, up to jail sentences.
But instead they roll out this specific thing and totally ignore the obligation...that's fishy.
I'd say more funding to the control mechanisms for helping kids and prevention work would actually do MORE for society than throwing money at private ID verification companies...
@_elena@mastodon.social
@helpsterTee @patrickleavy but then how would they make money via surveillance capitalism? Age verification would be a big win for Big Tech, as they would know the real identity of the person on their platform and could profit even more from their data...
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