295
EU’s new social media child protection rules to require all social media accounts to produce state ID - Leaked documents suggest that some existing accounts will also be subject to identification che… (www.independent.ie)
submitted 1 month ago by to c/technology@lemmy.world
42 comments fedilink hide all child comments
 

Full title: EU’s new social media child protection rules to require all social media accounts to produce state ID - Leaked documents suggest that some existing accounts will also be subject to identification checks

you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] 0 points 1 month ago (5 children)

Honestly? State ID is better than the current solution which is giving Thiel-affiliated companies photo and other data.

Ideally I'd rather have a governments provided digital ID that's more secure and just gives the company limited metadata instead of full ID info provided from gov't to company. Put in rules requiring warrants or subpoenas for lookups.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • hideshow 5 child comments
    •
  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    Who do you think is checking those ids? Hint: it's not the government, it's some 3rd party company, always.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 2 child comments
    •
  • [–] -1 points 1 month ago*

    With cryptographic systems like the EU uses, it must go through the government because a 3rd party can't implement that verification/response pattern without access to the proper gov't cryptographic secrets.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • [+] -7 points 1 month ago* (1 child)

    People are morons. Here we have an open source and anonymous framework for age-verifcation (free for anyone to read and check the source code: https://ageverification.dev/) developed by a people's institution and people lump it into the same boat as some private USA company photocopying your ID.

  • permalink
  • fedilink
  • source
  • parent
  • hideshow 1 child comment
    •