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

• tabular@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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 ⁨weeks⁩ 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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      • SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I'm not saying I'm for age verification. I'm just saying if it were for it, there'd be solutions.

        What I wrote I did while being barely awake in five minutes. Sure it needs work. But there'd be ways to do it without a camera up your butt.

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    • tabular@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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      • SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        You should avoid everything then. Besides that, what has that got to do with the issue?

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    • pinball_wizard@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ 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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      • SeductiveTortoise@piefed.social ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

        I'm not talking about fingerprinting.

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