Age verification is one thing, but I routinely verify my id online. Banking, insurance, taxes, various other government things, car registrations, some of the kids school stuff and so on. We have pretty decent infrastructure in place here in Finland and the entities I identify myself online already has my info anyways. I can use either my banking app or mobile verification to securely prove I am who I claim to be and the systems have roughly the same user experience than MFA tokens.
Each of those are roughly zero-knowledge, the website I log in receives just “User with login token xxx is IsoKiero with SSN 123456789” and the tokens expire after a while. Also there’s restrictions in place that my insurance company can’t just sell my data to whomever unless I opt-in for their “marketing” program (not going to happen) and even then there’s some limitations on how they can use the data.
The same system could be adopted to age verification, but that’s a whole another can of worms.
You already have one. It’s called your payment provider.
My bank once sent me a letter to my address, to tell me that they did not know what my address was. So I’m not completely sure they are exactly on the ball.
Fidelity, Banks, Coinbase (before I got out of cryptocurrency entirely).
But, basically, only when government regulation does (or SHOULD) impose KYC requirements.
Age and ID verification might be good in a very few cases, but it should definitely be a deviation from the norm.
Same for me my man. I hate the fact that anonymity on the internet will eventually fall before the end of this decade. The west is not that far away from the authoritarian regimes it claims to be fighting against
YouTube’s can be broken and that’s the only one I cared about. I guess steam would be an issue if they tried it.
Pretty sure anything else I can easily just bail on.
youtube? how?
The photo verification works on videos, I took a selfie of a 4k video and it worked. Just used a guys video on yt where he was talking to the camera
Steam’s age verification is entering your credit card details.
I ordered some alcohol online because I couldn’t find the brand of rum I was looking for locally. They did some age verification before I could order, same that I could have encountered in a grocery store.
Of course they just got sent a token and not a photo id which changes the calculus some. I’m against trusting random websites with personal information, not an age block on its own.
IMO steam does a reasonable job of age verification - if you’ve registered a credit card, you’re obviously old enough to have one.
I am a baby with an 800 credit score. I undersigned my parents home mortgage so they’d get a good rate. The bank knows I’m a reliable lender.
Googoogaagaa
I think I saw a movie about you
CEO Infant
“Why don’t you just trust me that I was born January 1, 1900?”
Nice, same birthday
I’m born 1.1.1970
I changed to 2000 because it’s less scrolling.
Fucking ouch bro
You can jump to the date in some menus by typing the number
The fact that 01/01/01 is old enough to rent a car without an issue now does make that date seem nice.
Tax filing?
A few years ago the IRS website wanted me to take a “video selfie” using a webcam to log in to access my tax stuff. I said Fuck That and ended the session. Finished my taxes through a 3rd party vendor instead.
There is no way the states is a real place. That’s beyond crooked and clearly trying to push people into using a 3rd party product.
IRS should already know what I owe and not worry about who logs on to pay it.
Oh yeah, the states is like that right… I meant for filing and claming tax benefits.
Age verification wouldn’t be a problem if there was a service I trusted that could verify my age, generate an anonymous one way hash or public/private key pair that could verify my age, and then dispose of all information that would could tie me to that info, I’d be ok with it. The problem is there isn’t a group that I’d trust (well that would be willing to do it) and everyone wants to hoard information and create a central repository that will be broken into. It’s not that there is a possibility it could be, but a certainty that it would be. This isn’t really an unsolvable technical problem, but an unsolvable trust problem.
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The EU actually was working on a system described above based on some sort of zero knowledge proof (so verification via your gov’t id, but without the verifying party being able to assert anything other than age > 18 or whatever data you want to verify)
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I think that’s the idea of zero-knowledge proofs. Nobody ever knows anything about the other party. Monero uses them (among other things) to be truly anonymous.
Personally I’ve found online banking, medical and travel services rather hard to resist.
Those new mobile phone things the kids are using also have biometrics and internets and look pretty handy to have around.
If you’ve put your real identity on your passport on some platforms and you’re going to use those platforms for purposes other than work, get ready to be a good and loyal dog.
Are we really “protecting” the children? Or is there a huge amount of powerful and wealthy individuals searching for an easy way to get to the children. With the global Trump Epstein Files scandal currently happening, how do we know they are not just stalking more kids? Not a conspiracy theory, just a different point of view. So many horrid groups in the world claim to be protecting children, but they always have a hidden nefarious agenda.
I wouldn’t be surprised if Discord’s face identification is used to find good looking kids, and then messages ICE to arrange shipment to an island.
You’re still thinking too small. They want to be able to see what everyone is doing and saying, no anonymity.
Yes, almost exactly
I thought the had Roblox for that
roblox isn’t for protecting children, it’s for serving up children
As someone without kids, I don’t know what the problem is with that specific game. I haven’t played it. Can you elaborate?
This is just the latest one. There’s also the fact that their profit generation format is essentially child labour exploitation. And also the latest one is just an extension of the platform’s longstanding issue with child predators.
Selection of videos below on Roblox and it’s history of being probably the last place you want to let your kid hang out…
I’ll check these out be sure to educate my sister with unsolicited parenting advice for her kids. Thank you.
No worries 👍
It’s one of those things I feel like anyone with a young person in their life should be aware of.
This is just more child abuse disguised as “parental rights”. It becomes clear how harmful this is when you realise that not all parents have their childrens best interests at heart (even if they think they do and sincerely mean well) and allowing parents to censor the information children have available to them allows them to censor information that the children learn only too late to prevent harm.
The issue is that any software is a blackbox when running.
There is no way for a user to know what code is running let alone verifying that a specific code is actually running on a device, combine that with a sector that keeps wanting more data.
