Comment by skyzouwdev 6 days ago
That’s a bold move. Handing over IDs to random sites is definitely a privacy nightmare, so I get why you built this. The real question is whether it buys time for users or just accelerates the push for stricter regulation. Either way, it sparks an important conversation
The UK age verification seems to be "Upload your ID to a porn site", but that's not the EU solution from what I can tell. What the EU is building is an Identity Wallet, where your national online ID verifies your age with your wallet. The wallet can then tell the sites that yes, this person is in fact 16+ or whatever the age restriction is. How they plan to avoid having kids just borrow their parents phones I don't know, frequent reconfirmation maybe?
The mistake that UK, and probably others, have made is that the government isn't actually able to provide the required infrastructure.
If the solution is anonymous in the sense that the government doesn't see that I visit some site, and the site doesn't see who I am, then I struggle to see problem. This assumes that it's only applied to services and products that are already age restricted in the physical world already.
> How they plan to avoid having kids just borrow their parents phones
I think one can say that about alcohol too? How do they plan to avoid kids drinking the wine?
Maybe if the parents leaves knifes, wine and medicine and an unlocked mobile phone where the kids can find it, ... That's a problem that's hard to solve in a phone app?
> frequent reconfirmation maybe?
Maybe popping up face ID camera tests? Can be annoying, I suppose, if you were in the middle of something
> Handing over IDs to random sites is definitely a privacy nightmare
They just need to leak all of the elected official internet usage. You'll see this rolled back faster than it was implemented.
I really can't wait for the video titles of the porn our government officials watch to be read out loud by newscasters. That's going to be such sweet karma.
At least outside of countries that already limit their citizens access to the internet, censorship regulations tend to apply only to providers, not end users, so it would be extremely difficult to go after an extraterritorial VPN provider. In the US, extraterritorial jurisdiction includes not just providers outside of the country, but providers outside of the state. For example, see: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marquette_National_Bank_of_Min....