No one needs the interet outside of work. The moment I’m forced to show my ID or get my face scanned, I’m done.
Age Verification Is Coming for the Whole Internet
Submitted 2 weeks ago by mesamunefire@piefed.social to technology@lemmy.world
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/article/age-verification-is-coming-for-the-whole-internet.html
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MystValkyrie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
itslola@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
No one needs the internet outside of work.
As someone with a disability (and no car), the internet has played a massive role in allowing me to live independently, which in turn has a profoundly positive impact on my mental health. There are a wide variety of circumstances in which the internet has enhanced life experience - let’s not throw the baby out with the bathwater.
MystValkyrie@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 weeks ago
I’m sorry. I suppose I should have said “I don’t need the internet outside of work.”
nuko147@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I don’t know what they are thinking, but i protect my ID data more than i protect my credit card data.
eleitl@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
Gotta show me the relevant RFC for BGP first.
badbytes@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
I will cancel my subscription
danhab99@programming.dev 2 weeks ago
Does anyone vaguely remember those internet licenses from that Star Trek DS9 episode when they went back in time but it was the near future from the 80s perspective meaning that it’s actually today?
We’re going to have internet licenses soon
0x0@lemmy.zip 2 weeks ago
We’re going to have internet licenses soon
They’re called contracts with your ISP, they’ve been around for a while now.
Bloomcole@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yes, the EU with their draconian and dystopian plans just go over our heads and do it.
All quiet and sneaky, no articles in the sold out press, only small specific outlets or sites that investigate privacy or tech.SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Lol no it isn’t.
I will kill for this
Jaded99@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
[deleted]JokeDeity@sh.itjust.works 2 weeks ago
Who let the Trumper in?
Jaded99@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
If Hating pedos = Trumper then consider me one. Mind your p3do self I’m not even from the USA
balder1991@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That won’t matter when everything becomes paywalled.
thedruid@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
There’s fucking off, then there’s what the government can do. It’
BigTrout75@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
That’s what I’m thinking. There goes the Internet.
AJ1@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
oh no, the world will find out I’m 50. oh the shame, oh the horror.
shalafi@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Problem is, this isn’t about getting your age, it’s about identifying you online.
Rocketpoweredgorilla@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
And they will know what you look like. And with some data extrapolation where you are, where you go, your searches, what you’re into, your payment methods, where you live, your schedule, who you interact with, and the list goes on.
This is one more data point for big brother to collect and share with the highest bidder, or to get leaked to people who do not have your best interests in mind.
balder1991@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
And when some data is leaked, your id will be with it.
cyberpunk007@lemmy.ca 2 weeks ago
50 and this naive?
boonhet@sopuli.xyz 2 weeks ago
Plot twist: they’re 17 and covering their tracks
tane69@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Dumbest possible response someone could’ve made. How have you made it to 50 without a handler?
BrianTheeBiscuiteer@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
And they know your medical conditions, your income, your likes and dislikes, your hobbies, your vices, your insecurities, your deepest desires. Fast forward 10 years and every page and site you visit will be AI generated on the spot to lead you around by the nose and which way they feel like.
“Your local team just won the championship! Buy one of their limited edition jerseys now for only one hour of your income! Act now and we won’t send videos of you jerking it to your coworker your wife is super jealous of. If you pay for express shipping we’ll disable your home security and quietly sneak in and hang it in your closet, even while you sleep! Just kidding! We bought all of this for you anyway, because we own your drug store and we would’ve just withheld your insulin until you bought a jersey… I mean TWO jerseys.”
thedruid@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Youngster, you don’t know what you’re saying
Yeah, I’m older than you.
quitenormal@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Seems to me, there’s no real way to age verify people. This is pointless.
Want ID? Kids can just upload a fake one.
The app wants access to your phone’s camera, so it can use ai to assess your age? Well I don’t know for certain, but I’m 99.9% there’s probably a way to trick your phone into using a virtual camera, showing images of a middle-aged man.
What ever method of age verification, someone will figure out a way to trick it, and kids will be onto the trick very quickly.
sturmblast@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Yeah, probably not.
What a failure of an idea.
SoftestSapphic@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Lol no
vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
Suppose true, then we’ll reduce the use of “the whole Internet”.
OK, we won’t, no tools yet.
I really love Briar, except it’s functionally not quite there yet, and the desktop kind of such application synchronized with neighboring ships, so to say, with a delay-tolerant Web alternative, would be good. Over various links and media.
Anyway, it’s not a technical problem, it’s a social problem. Not really different from ID checks on the streets and everywhere you go in the city, except much of the city got virtualized. And ID checks on the streets are automated by cameras everywhere and face recognition.
Social problems are resolved in the legal, social, protest, civil war fields.
deafboy@lemmy.world 2 weeks ago
Except on the internet, you can still create your own street with your own rules.
vacuumflower@lemmy.sdf.org 2 weeks ago
If you buy\rent a house (suppose) intended as, well, housing, and make a family diner there without registration, you will break the law.
They can easily do this with the Internet.