Online age-verification tools for child safety are surveilling adults

Post by Forgeties79 » Wed, Mar 11, 2026, 12:53 PM UTC

raxxorraxor wrote: post #350

john_strinlai wrote: post #6

> An FTC spokesperson told CNBC that companies must limit how collected information is used. [...] The agency pointed to existing rules requiring firms to retain personal information only as long as reasonably necessary and to safeguard its confidentiality and integrity. the very same rules that have allowed literally every single piece of my data to be leaked several separate times, and now i have free credit monito…

I prefer facial recognition. Probably good that there isn't a popular face-spoofer app, since it would put attention to the efficiency of these verifications. Credit card info is a bad solution. In many countries they still are rare and it would very likely exclude as much adults as children. The real answer is that while we should expect children to be online, it is the responsibility of the parents to moderate thei…

Post by Y_Y » Wed, Mar 11, 2026, 2:11 PM UTC

dennis_jeeves2 wrote: post #311

cultofmetatron wrote: post #22

Earlier quoted context omitted.

whats incredible to me are how many useful idiots out there STILL fall for it. ___ said hamas beaheaded 40 babies and that turned out to be a complete fabrication. That fake info was used in part to justify killing thousands of kids in ____ meanwhile the recent strike on Iran resulted in 80 little girls getting killed (with plenty of evidence) and its swept under the rug while we get blasted about the 7 soldiers that…

>whats incredible to me are how many useful idiots out there STILL fall for it. That's about 99% of the population.

Post by mghackerlady » Wed, Mar 11, 2026, 2:20 PM UTC

john_strinlai wrote: post #6

> An FTC spokesperson told CNBC that companies must limit how collected information is used. [...] The agency pointed to existing rules requiring firms to retain personal information only as long as reasonably necessary and to safeguard its confidentiality and integrity. the very same rules that have allowed literally every single piece of my data to be leaked several separate times, and now i have free credit monito…

Post by mghackerlady » Wed, Mar 11, 2026, 2:27 PM UTC

EmbarrassedHelp wrote: post #272

ByteBlaster wrote: post #44

The EU is rolling out the EUDI system this year where citizens can verify their age (>16, >18, >21) without revealing any personal information. This is a solved problem over there.

According to the EU Identity Wallet's documentation, the EU's planned system requires highly invasive age verification to obtain 30 single use, easily trackable tokens that expire after 3 months. It also bans jailbreaking/rooting your device, and requires GooglePlay Services/IOS equivalent be installed to "prevent tampering". You have to blindly trust that the tokens will not be tracked, which is a total no-go for pr…

Post by voxic11 » Wed, Mar 11, 2026, 4:52 PM UTC

triceratops wrote: post #88

dizzy9 wrote: post #55

Age verification inherently requires identity verification. The UK's Online Safety Act originally had a proposal that would allow users to purchase an ID code anonymously in cash from a corner store, presenting only ID to the cashier the same way as buying alcohol. This was never implemented, because it's more useful for the government and corporations to link all online usage to a government ID.

I didn't know the Online Safety Act had this proposal. Do you have a source? I've been proposing the same thing on this site for months. IMO anonymous age verification with no record-keeping is the only form of age verification that should exist. No zero knowledge proofs, no centralized government identity provider, nothing.