I suspect there will be a leadership challenge to the prime minister before this, and the legislation will be dropped.
The dude making the challenge is just as nuts. I am a Left person and it's astonishing how alienated I feel by Labour.
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
#22For 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 ...
The UK left the EU years ago.
But the entire EU is implementing stuff like this. Gov ID's, backdoors (swiss article 50a), etc.
Re: UK to require ID or face scan before you can make social media accounts
#23Of 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?
Suppose the user isn't using a device that leaks its location to any userland software that asks?
Re: UK to require ID or face scan before you can make social media accounts
#24This is, of course, the entire goal of the social media control for "children". And you can safely bet that this will creep from social media to essentially all content. Governments have been looking for a means to destroy the anonymous internet for years, and they're making significant progress lately.
Re: UK to require ID or face scan before you can make social media accounts
#25Of 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.
> 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.
I think you have a skewed and inaccurate understanding.
Why would "British muggles" be so up in arms over an ID check that they swear off social media if they can't "circumvent this with a VPN or a proxy"? It's not like everyone has the same attitudes as your stereotypical computer geek, but with less computer skills.
Re: UK to require ID or face scan before you can make social media accounts
#26Of 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.
You don't need Apple (yet) to access the Internet.
Re: UK to require ID or face scan before you can make social media accounts
#27Of 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?
This would only work for anyone foolish enough to attempt to access content and services with their phone. You don't own your phone. It might has well be a company-owned device.
"But everyone uses their phone all the time!" Yes, and everyone will be worse off for making the obviously worse choice.
Re: UK to require ID or face scan before you can make social media accounts
#28Article 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.
If a site creates some opaque token representing the request, and the token is signed by the ID service with no other information disclosure that "The user that presented this is of the appropriate age" that would seem like a reasonable compromise.
Token could be signed out-of-band to obscure the interaction between the parties.
Re: UK to require ID or face scan before you can make social media accounts
#29Of 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.
Apple only dominate the US mobile phone market