I am wondering what are some age verification alternatives that could be better a way instead of asking for ids or biometric verification? Any ideas? It is not really about the kids though but opposition needs an argument and they are quite dumb to come up with something and I am exhausted.
The alternative is you don’t why all of a sudden are we supposed to go along with all this madness?
It is more guiding the narrative to be sound to an average person such that their method seems unfavourable to common sense impacting their vote bank, point is to make it look regressive, stupid, expensive, against small business apparently
The way things are going, I wonder how long before a politician admits that it is more efficient to have the kids positively identify themselves and then be forced to provide their if details to which ever paedophile asks. We can’t have the inefficiencies of yesteryear in our modern world kiddy fiddlers need to move fast and break stuff.
After all it turns out the people agitating for these laws, when the mask is ripped off them like a pirate ghost at the end of a Scooby Do episode, the villain was the people who most directly benefit from government mandated doxxing all along, like fucking Meta and OpenAI. What a fucking amazing coincidence.
Yes the lobbying is driving the conversation flowing against it seems ridiculous, hijacking the conversation seems like a better cheaper option.
If I had to choose a method, it would involve an authentication site - one it would have its security validated by a trusted entity and guarantee that you will be fully compensated should they be hacked. Even better if that’s backed up by a large insurance policy.
You verify your identity with them. Then they verify information requested by other sites. The risk of hacking is minimized to that one company. They should collect your IP and information about your browser, operating system, and hardware. Then issue you a cookie stored on your browser.
Subsequently, when you use a website that needs to verify your age, they read your identification cookie and validate it with the identification company, asking if you are of majority age and providing the information they collected. The identification company gives a yes or no response. They do not give out any other information about you, preserving your privacy. As long as you are using the same computer on the same IP you don’t have to revalidate. A hacker would need access to your computer if they wanted to impersonate you.
The identifying site doesn’t need to record IP or other identifying information. It just needs to answer “yes” or “no” when queried about the current user. It could use a similar handoff mechanism to oauth.
The cost of a hack turns into getting a list of people in the region, rather than people who use a given service. Arguably, that’s less problematic.
Could easily be countered by arguments like everything gets hacked, who’ll insure it, which department’s problem will it be, or all states have their own jank, and every piece of work will want that level of access
Also if this is the wrong community please some one point me in right direction
You’re good, no worries
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One idea I’ve seen floated was a certificate-based authentication. Providers that know your age by design, such as banks, could hand out certificates in bulk. That way, only those institutions would know that you have received certificates, but they can’t tell for what exactly. Source: https://ec.social-network.europa.eu/@EUCommission/114852402217569321
Given how financial institutions are behaving towards Free Speech online I really don’t want them to be trust anchors that are required to access anything, which is something that is completely unnecessary and we were just fine without 5 years ago. What changed?
A good idea but a more privacy preserving approach is preferable