Comment on Australia’s Teen Social Media Ban Is Just Training A Generation In The Art Of The Workaround

• BrikoX@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

  1. Showing physical ID is not the same as storing digital record, which can be tracked, correlated and leaked at any time due to other people incopetence. More apt comparison would be to if you needed to provide a copy of your ID each time you went to buy cigarettes or alcohol.
  2. You only need to provide ID if you look younger than required age to buy cigarettes or alcohol not every single living person.

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  • misk@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

    1. There are ways to do things anonymously while preserving actual checks against a central database, like with zero-knowledge proof.
    2. There’s a living person doing that check, which isn’t super practical for things online. Do I go to the nearest 7-11 to confirm my Pornhub login?

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    • BrikoX@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

      1. It’s not full proof.

      • Zero Knowledge Proofs Alone Are Not a Digital ID Solution to Protecting User Privacy
      • The limits of zero-knowledge for age-verification

      2. There is a human element here too. Parents. Certain groups of people are constantly shouting that parent choices are not taken into consideration, yet they are happy with outsoursing their responsibilies on the rest of the population.

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      • misk@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨months⁩ ago

        What ZKPs don’t do is mitigate verifier abuse or limit their requests, such as over-asking for information they don’t need or limiting the number of times they request your age over time.

        API rate limits exist.

        They don’t prevent websites or applications from collecting other kinds of observable personally identifiable information like your IP address or other device information while interacting with them.

        Exactly like the lady at 7-11.

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