By verifying with a central age verification system.
What has been thrown around, and what should hopefully be the solution, is that a government agency (as a last resort) or a independent trusted authority makes a system where you create an account and verify your age with your documents with them. Then they have public APIs for sites to hit - you give the site a unique key (preferably you would generate individual keys that are tied to your account for every site) and all that site does is hit that API going “Is the person that this key belongs to 18+?”, and the response is yes or no.
Simple, secure, private. The site you’re accessing doesn’t know who you are and doesn’t get your details. The age verification site also doesn’t necessarily know the site you were using, and this should not be logged either.
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Lmao. Yeah, the government is going to implement this? Assuming it is actually secure, when do you expect this to release? A decade from now?
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 1 day ago
Would be incredibly easy to make secure, as it wouldn’t even need to store the verification documents or anything personally identifiable once your account is set up.
I think if the government is actually serious about doing this they will need to do it, or outsource it to someone who will. I don’t actually think these laws will take effect in December.
KairuByte@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
Theoretically possible? Sure. Though I don’t trust the US government with this information either.
Then there a completely different problem to be concerned with: chinamediaproject.org/…/chinas-slow-march-toward-…
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 22 hours ago
The government already has access to what sites you visit btw. They already know if you’re a big booty fan or a gagging kinda guy. They’ve got their fingers in every ISP
I think that a few independent secure age verification services will pop up soon enough. Wouldn’t surprise me if the parent company of pornhub or one of those sites makes it themselves. There’s huge money to be made in it.
Hell I might start asking around with my lawyer friends to see what would be required. Could knock it out in a weekend. The hardest part would be finding the consequences/legal issues of verifying based on fake documents.
DancingBear@midwest.social 1 day ago
Less button clicks to just use a free online vpn
FreedomAdvocate@lemmy.net.au 2 hours ago
They’re coming for our VPNs soon enough, be sure of that. Here in Australia they’ve already flagged wanting to ban them.