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HexesofVexes@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago

See, there are a few ways this could go.

Age verification is as secure and private as promised, and it’s left at that. I like to call this “the miracle”, and we all know those don’t happen.
Age verification is as secure and private as promised, but a government asks for “access to data to prevent crime” - things degenerate from there. This is the “systemic failure” scenario.
Age verification is as secure and private as promised, but new scams evolve around it to make it dangerous. This would be the “criminal element” scenario.
Age verification is not as secure and private as promised, and a leak occurs destroying lives and careers. This is the “system failure” scenario.
Age verification is as secure and private as promised, but a few companies start scraping and selling data, leading to widespread harms. This is the “unethical merchant” scenario, and the most likely outcome.

All in all, there is only one “ok” scenario, and a lot of horrific ones. The math says we’re entirely boned ^_^

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D_Air1@lemmy.ml ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Or all of the above while still not being “as secure and private as promised”.

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- emmy67@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  Nothing is ever as secure and private as promised.
  
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FosterMolasses@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
I feel like people are downplaying how dangerous even the possibility of #2 is. A lot of nations are already targeting the LGBTQ community on a regular basis and this would massively assist to streamline persecution of “certain” citizens as well as the rapid spread of religious Dogma. Both the U.S. and Australia are current testing grounds for these outcomes.

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HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
4, as it’s already happening. It’s just to be seen if people will have their lives ruined

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- Scrollone@feddit.it ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
  We would need politicians to be the victims. Then these fascist laws will suddenly be cancelled.
  
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  - HertzDentalBar@lemmy.blahaj.zone ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
    If they were victims they would go even harder fascist, atleast that’s usually the case.
    
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tonytins@pawb.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Five seems to be the most plausible. Although knowing how shit corporate security is, I foresee a mix of three and four being common.

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Vinstaal0@feddit.nl ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
In theory, it isn’t hard to make it work, give everybody born on the same day a specific UUID and use that to authenticate with a database if it is true or false. Store the ID somewhere where the person has access to (ID/Passport/Digital passport etc) and it should be enough. Get IT persons and accountants to regularly audit it for security and if they keep logs/don’t have UUID’s per person etc.

But that’s not how it seems to work for the UK at this time

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ThatKomputerKat@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨week⁩ ago
Already been seeing bullshit “age verification” scams in replies on mastodon for over a week now.

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