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chisel@piefed.social ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

The idea of storing age in the OS is that end programs don’t actually access it directly. They get age ranges, like child/adult, not the actual birthdate. In theory, it’s much more private than uploading your id and photo to every random website/app that you use.

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kurwa@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
If they age or birthdate is there it could leak, regardless of the API.

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endlesseden@pyfedi.deep-rose.org ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago
there is no such thing as privacy when sharing private information, that’s accessible remotely.

leaks can and will occur. but more importantly this will be used to create digital associations between inviduals and Their online presence, just like all the other digital identity laws have.

it protects no one, as getting around it is easy as lying. while intentionally harming adults that comply out of necessity.

there is a reason people are jumping ship from privacy invading services already…

the solution is holding parents (and the child) responsible for the action of their childrens actions and not trying to create industry wide privacy invasion for bad actors to use. what’s next, gold stars for Linux users to wear?

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