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"Policymakers around the world are advancing age assurance proposals to protect children and teens online." Noone is doing this in order to "protect children"
Maybe age assurance should be in the display. The display's camera has to verify the age of the viewer to display adult content. That might be simpler. Estimating age with a camera is already common in China. Cameras are cheap, and displays now probably have enough processing power to do it locally. Will work for TVs, too.
It would probably also be a good idea to find a way to ban gambling mechanics in games because if we recognize casinos as vices that lead to widespread social dysfunction and that children have no business whatsoever interacting with them then it follows that gacha games are very clearly an end run around the spirit of the law.
When they write "GitHub", I guess they mean "Microsoft"? Maybe this is the hero we deserve, but it's not the hero we need.
The most costly part of Identification is the last mile. Paying the employee/cop/etc who asks for your ID and check it.
With digital IDs, there's several players fighting to consume that cost as profit.
Microsoft is a huge player. It is the sole reason windows11 requires a TPM device, so that your windows11 device can be used for identity attestation like an iphone can. (I mean, I don't buy that device bound keys are a valid solution, but i'm not the one being fooled in governments around the world to buy this up)
So, no, microsoft will definitely not by the hero of anything here.
Maybe age assurance should be in the display. The display's camera has to verify the age of the viewer to display adult content. That might be simpler. Estimating age with a camera is already common in China. Cameras are cheap, and displays now probably have enough processing power to do it locally. Will work for TVs, too.
Or did you have a guard posted at every door at your home?
When they write "GitHub", I guess they mean "Microsoft"? Maybe this is the hero we deserve, but it's not the hero we need.
Maybe age assurance should be in the display. The display's camera has to verify the age of the viewer to display adult content. That might be simpler. Estimating age with a camera is already common in China. Cameras are cheap, and displays now probably have enough processing power to do it locally. Will work for TVs, too.
Any solution that cannot be evolved into "we must know who you are before you can access the web" will fail at the gate.
Maybe age assurance should be in the display. The display's camera has to verify the age of the viewer to display adult content. That might be simpler. Estimating age with a camera is already common in China. Cameras are cheap, and displays now probably have enough processing power to do it locally. Will work for TVs, too.
Again, the point of this legislation is not about protecting children. It's about ending anonymity on the web. Any solution that cannot be evolved into "we must know who you are before you can access the web" will fail at the gate.
Maybe age assurance should be in the display. The display's camera has to verify the age of the viewer to display adult content. That might be simpler. Estimating age with a camera is already common in China. Cameras are cheap, and displays now probably have enough processing power to do it locally. Will work for TVs, too.