We have SmartID and MobiilID in Estonia too, but you don’t need it to log onto social media. You only need it
Comment on Norwegian government to set 15-year age limit for using social media
MoonlightFox@lemmy.world 4 weeks agoEveryone in Norway has one, well like 99,99% or something. It is a requirement for banking.
It is used for all banking services in Norway. When you get your own bank account at 13 or something you also get BankID.
boonhet@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 4 weeks ago
Right. But Facebook shouldn’t have that number.
Leavingoldhabits@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
As far as I understand, BankID actually abstracts away those numbers. FB have to use an API, and more or less receive a true or false on their query.
They recently opened up for using BankID to prove your age at bars and such, and I think they only get to know if person is old enough or not. Not even a number, just old enough.
Hacksaw@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
This is the right way to protect privacy. Auditable government departments have your data anyways. They don’t provide the data to companies, but they answer questions like “old enough to drink?” With yes no answers.
locuester@lemmy.zip 4 weeks ago
EngineerGaming@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
The government can keep a log of what sites asked for such a proof though, and better assume they do.
01189998819991197253@infosec.pub 4 weeks ago
If truly masked, it might be fine. But the site has to gather that data in order to append it to the API call and it, therefore, mean that they could keep it (even of they actually may not). There are ways around it, such as with session tokens passed between the social media’s page and the bank’s official API page. But, knowing fb, they won’t use the latter.
InverseParallax@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Obviously not, it’s like Google authentication , you log into a site, doesn’t mean the site can see your Gmail.
sibachian@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
it’s a privacy nightmare as it relies on google and apple servers to authenticate verification. neither of which are private. it also makes it impossible for european alternative operative systems to enter the market - giving a foreign state, the US, full control over what we can and can’t do.
MoonlightFox@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Can you elaborate a bit on the google and apple servers for authentication? My impression was that this system uses its own platform.
virku@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
BankID is it’s own trusted platform. It is not connected to any of them. I am not sure if I understand what the other person is trying to say. Maybe they are afraid that Google and Apple can use BankID verified sessions to better identify the user?
Lifter@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks ago
They are using the phone SDKs to verify that BankID was correctly installed, much like any other client side DRM.