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Age and identity verification can and should be done at the country level. France has an ID service to pay taxes, and they have a network of possible ID verifi
by d--b 7mo ago
Age and identity verification can and should be done at the country level.
France has an ID service to pay taxes, and they have a network of possible ID verification systems. Like, you can ID through the tax system, or through the healthcare system. It works fine.
Implementing an API that uses the same to provide age verification is not rocket science.
If you need age verification for a website, say "smedia.fr", then you go there, then it makes you get an age verification token to "franceid.gov.fr", that guy gives you back a token, you send the token to smedia.fr which checks the token with franceid.gov.fr
I don't understand how this is even an issue.
- arewethereyeta 7mo agoyou should NOT need any face ID to pay taxes.
- d--b 7mo agowhatever man. Everyone in France has an ID. It's no big deal, really.
- arewethereyeta 7mo agogreat argument, the "if you have nothing to hide what's the problem in sharing all your data" type
- d--b 7mo agoI think you got me wrong. I was saying in France everyone has a photo id for government stuff. You pay taxes to the government so yeah you need some form of ID just for the government to know who’s paying the taxes. in the US you use social security number. it’s the same, but on a card and with a photo.
- OkayPhysicist 7mo agoIn the US you do not need an SSN to pay taxes. It makes it easier, and you can't claim a child without an SSN for the purposes of deductions, but you do not need an SSN.
- d--b 7mo agookay fine, technically you need a TIN number which for most of US citizens is going to be their SSN. There, happy?
- dymk 7mo agoI don't like the idea that media services are required to report back to the government that I'm accessing them - I think that is an issue many would have with such a system
- smakt 7mo ago[flagged]