Comment on Mastodon says it doesn't 'have the means' to comply with age verification laws

• SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Depends in what part you trust. I trust them with my ID, I wouldn't trust a random website. They know it anyway as they made it.

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  • tabular@lemmy.world ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    If we’re talking about a hard copy ID (passport, drivers license) that’s one thing. A digital ID over the internet is asking for trouble.

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    • SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      That's the reason I wrote what I wrote. everyone only knows what they need to know. How do you think a third entity would identify you?

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      • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        Easy:

        • companies have a vested interest in identifying you (ads, data brokers, etc)
        • governments have a vested interest in tracking you (local police, terrorism tracking, etc)

        I don’t trust the government and private interests to come to an agreement that somehow benefits citizens more than their combined interests.

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      • tabular@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        I doubt the concept of anonymised data. Companies and governments have bad incentives to know who you are, and collect data from brokers to make correlations and educated guesses.

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      • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip ⁨4⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

        How do you think a third entity would identify you?

        You may want to join us reading along in the privacy communities of the fediverse.

        But long story shortened - third parties are very much identifying each of us in staggeringly novel ways.

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