Comment on The Age-Checked Internet Has Arrived
Vinstaal0@feddit.nl 3 weeks agoFor porn and games etc. that should be enough yes, but for online gambling, opening stock market accounts etc we do need actual verification, but there are tons of methods of doing it so that the site only gets a true or false (18 or above) and the government gets obfuscated URL’s so that the government doesn’t know what you visited.
npcknapsack@lemmy.ca 3 weeks ago
If I’m opening a stock market account, I’m trusting them with generating my tax receipts! If I don’t feel comfortable trusting them to hold my personal data directly, I probably should choose a different brokerage…
Vinstaal0@feddit.nl 3 weeks ago
After making the comment, I realised that stockbrokers need full KYC anyway.
You can use OTP codes without a phone, since you can buy OTP keychains. Which don’t require any form of internet connection, same with the physical Passkey’s.