Comment on Discord will require a face scan or ID for full access next month
Takios@discuss.tchncs.de 3 weeks agoOf course they don’t use it. They want your data, not just your age. As long as the government does not make using ID this way for age verification mandatory*, companies will continue to use processes that give them the most data that they can sell.
*: As in not making verification mandatory but if a company wants to do it they must to it this way
In Australia digital ID is not mandatory (though the government tried to make it so).
We were the first with these adult filters.
I don’t know if a system similar to Germany was proposed but there is a security problem with having all our data collated on a government server.
uniquethrowagay@feddit.org 3 weeks ago
Our (privatized) mail service offers an identification process to third parties where you either walk into a post office with your physical ID card or you make a video call with a call center and show it to them. I don’t think they transmit any more data than “over 18 yes/no”. So while data hording might often be the reason, I don’t think it’s the only one ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
General_Effort@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
I heard that the reason why no one uses the ID card option is that the privatized post office lobbied the government to make it so expensive as not to compete with their service.