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"there's no way to do so ephemerally, " - there are ways people can be issued anonymous tokens, 3rd party verifications, regs against recording the data with st
by jasmer 3y ago
"there's no way to do so ephemerally, " - there are ways people can be issued anonymous tokens, 3rd party verifications, regs against recording the data with strong regulatory authority.
Frankly, it's not even that hard you could come up with 3 'good ways' just by thinking about it a tiny bit, that would be less intrusive than showing your ID at a bar.
Trade this for getting the drinking age lowered to 18 and we win.
- gnicholas 3y agoI didn’t claim that it’s impossible to imagine ways that this could be done. I was pointing out that no such methods are actually in common use, which means that when people think about validating their age online, they are concerned about their privacy.
- raxxorraxor 3y agoThere is a technical possibility to do that. There is also a technical possibility to leak identities.
- red-iron-pine 3y agoSure, there are ways. There are ways to watch every single American all the time; China is trying that with their citizens already. Doesn't mean we should, or will, or that it will ever make sense. PH is a business, and the overhead of adding this system, on top of the PII, compliance, and access risks that come with it, doesn't make business-sense. What costs more? implementing a sweeping system with tons of risk, or blacklisting one state?
- jasmer 3y agoThe overhead of adding a decently designed and broadly used age verification mechanism is almost nil. It won't show up even as an operating expense.