EU Gives Platforms 12 Months to Deploy 'Strict' Age Verification

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• tal@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  I said it before when the UK mandate just went into force and Reddit started having people required to take pictures of their IDs to get access to NSFW subreddits: if you get people used to having websites demand photos of identity documents, I strongly suspect you are gonna have some serious fraud issues down the line when less-than-salubrious websites start getting people to take identity document photos.

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  • tal@lemmy.today ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    For an example of the privacy implications, we just had a story up on this community or another about the Tea identity leak:

    nytimes.com/…/tea-safety-dating-app-hack.html

    A data breach exposed photos and ID cards of women who signed up for a fast-growing app for women to share details of men they might date.

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    • cygnus@lemmy.ca ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      I hate that they get to label this a “hack”. It was sheer negligence - they stored these images in an unsecured bucket.

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  • gressen@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    This is different. It’s a EU gov app that gives your website a zero-knowledge proof of age. Basically the only info they get is a “yes” or maybe the age itself. This is much better than what you describe, but I’m not familiar with the way the UK system works today.

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• lena@gregtech.eu ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  Source? I can’t find the article.

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  • gressen@lemmy.zip ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I found this: The EU launches an online age verification app. Pilot project in five Member States (including Italy)

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  • ell1e@leminal.space ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    I didn’t find the exact same article, but this one makes pretty much the same claim: facia.ai/…/video-platforms-must-enforce-age-check…

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• Sibbo@sopuli.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  So we got 12 months now too buy all the VPN stocks we can get?

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