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UK to require ID or face scan before you can make social media accounts

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Re: UK to require ID or face scan before you can make social media accounts

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Post by feurio »

cjs_ac wrote: post #9

Of course, it'll be possible to circumvent this with a VPN or a proxy. So what this will achieve is it will reduce the number of British muggles on social media, thus bringing us a bit closer to the Good Old Days when only nerds were online. I'm fine with this. This comment was brought to you by the British Class System: Making Nanny Proud.

If the app on the kid's phone knows that the phone is registered in the UK, how would a VPN circumvent it?

Re: UK to require ID or face scan before you can make social media accounts

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Post by choo-t »

feurio wrote: post #8

Article is doing a lot of supposing: "To enforce it, platforms must age-check their users. In practice that means anyone opening a new account will likely have to prove they're over 16 by uploading an ID or passing a facial age scan." > likely It could, of course, use a double-anonymous system like the French one. Probably not, but I'd rather that they didn't state their guess as fact in the title.

> It could, of course, use a double-anonymous system like the French one.

Which isn't really anonymous or privacy preserving, despite it's funny name : https://broken-by-design.fr/posts/proto-authz-porn/

Re: UK to require ID or face scan before you can make social media accounts

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Post by amelius »

cjs_ac wrote: post #9

Of course, it'll be possible to circumvent this with a VPN or a proxy. So what this will achieve is it will reduce the number of British muggles on social media, thus bringing us a bit closer to the Good Old Days when only nerds were online. I'm fine with this. This comment was brought to you by the British Class System: Making Nanny Proud.

> Of course, it'll be possible to circumvent this with a VPN or a proxy.

Not if they can make Apple forbid this.

Re: UK to require ID or face scan before you can make social media accounts

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Post by brzz »

feurio wrote: post #8

Article is doing a lot of supposing: "To enforce it, platforms must age-check their users. In practice that means anyone opening a new account will likely have to prove they're over 16 by uploading an ID or passing a facial age scan." > likely It could, of course, use a double-anonymous system like the French one. Probably not, but I'd rather that they didn't state their guess as fact in the title.

Yeah, I would assume the worst from the UK government on these things.

I hadn't heard of the French double-anonymous system, though. That does sound slightly better.

Re: UK to require ID or face scan before you can make social media accounts

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Post by feurio »

choo-t wrote: post #13
feurio wrote: post #8

Article is doing a lot of supposing: "To enforce it, platforms must age-check their users. In practice that means anyone opening a new account will likely have to prove they're over 16 by uploading an ID or passing a facial age scan." > likely It could, of course, use a double-anonymous system like the French one. Probably not, but I'd rather that they didn't state their guess as fact in the title.

> It could, of course, use a double-anonymous system like the French one. Which isn't really anonymous or privacy preserving, despite it's funny name : https://broken-by-design.fr/posts/proto-authz-porn/

"like"

It's not beyond the wit of humankind to build a working system.

Re: UK to require ID or face scan before you can make social media accounts

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Post by wrxd »

themythfable wrote: post #5

For all the noise about "EU consumer protections" this certainly seems quite the opposite. So, to be clear, I have to tiptoe around cookies but eu-users will simultaneously do this so they can share pictures of their ...

UK is no longer in the EU
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