Age verification in social media is just the beginning.

[thomasfricke@23.social]

Age verification in social media is just the beginning. We have to fight against identification with teeth and claws.

"Colorado Lawmakers Push for Age Verification at the Operating System Level"

https://uk.pcmag.com/security/163291/colorado-lawmakers-push-for-age-verification-at-the-operating-system-level

#ageverification #privacy #gdpr

[andre123@snowfan.it]

@thomasfricke this is rapidly becoming a red alert code... this is going to be bad...really bad... and escalating too. And Europe does not seem to fully grasp how bad these things are going because far right movements are having increasing support here too unfortunately (making actual Us government very happy)

[tcatinreality@mastodon.social]

@thomasfricke
I disagree

Decades of treating the web as an unregulated everyone online free-for-all have proven to been deeply corrosive to many factors of society (democracy, crime, youth, cohesion, etc)

It is past time the long established product safety rules in IRL applied online - and that requires age verification in some cases

What we need to fight is the consolidation of more power in the hands of the greedy. Unaccountable techbros are the problem, not the concept of regulation

[ingobecker@ohai.social]

@thomasfricke The thing is, for chatcontrol that actually works, you have to take away the users control over their devices. Otherwise it's hard to enforce it. You have to make it illegal to use custom(ized) devices otherwise people can circumvent it. You also have to make it illegal to use software that doesn't adhere to age-/chat control. I don't think there is a technical solution to this.

[nazani@universeodon.com]

@thomasfricke My particular fear is theft & sale of biometric ID.

[adam_jurkiewicz@linux.social]

@thomasfricke I see it in Linux ;-)