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Anyone under 18 could find one of my hobby sites. I'm not going to send people to some 3rd party to record their face as that is a violation of their privacy.
by LinuxBender 4y ago
Anyone under 18 could find one of my hobby sites. I'm not going to send people to some 3rd party to record their face as that is a violation of their privacy. Shall I password protect everything until the dust from the legal battles settles? Or maybe 302 redirect to a RickRoll for now? What are others here doing for their hobby sites, if anything?
I am half curious how many sites will implement a fake age validation to capture video of their visitors just for fun. What other unintended consequences might this law inspire?
- amanaplanacanal 4y agoWhat are you doing on your site that would trigger the need for age verification?
- LinuxBender 4y agoOn forums and chat servers I accept any personally identifiable information that the member volunteers. They can also upload an image of themselves and input their birthday and real name. I also have access logs that can be used for geolocation. They can upload pictures and videos. My interpretation of the law as I have seen it would include most people running self hosted forums and chat servers. Members of forum and chat servers can say where they live. The best I could do to stop that would be to ban them and delete their messages if I suspect they are under 18. I would never sell this information but I have no way to prove that I never have. And while I do not believe I could be hacked, what happens when I am and the attacker sells this information? Did I violate this specific law or did they? Who is liable? How are Discord and Slack dealing with this? Discord have a massive population of minors and they collect a massive amount of information. Have any tech-savvy lawyers on HN offered their interpretation yet?