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What would a world with your preferred age verification system look like?
by gzread 8mo ago
What would a world with your preferred age verification system look like?
- triceratops 8mo agoIf age verification has to exist at all, it could look something like this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46447282 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46447282 And responses to some common criticisms of the idea: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46459959 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46459959 I also forgot to mention in my original post that the token issuer is not a monopoly. Any company that wants to participate can do so, just like there are many brands of tobacco and alcohol. Require websites to accept at least 5 providers to ensure competition. To be clear though if it's being used as wedge for privacy violation then it should not exist at all. And from reading TFA preventing that may need a similarly coordinated counter-effort.
- gzread 8mo agoThat seems much more intrusive and bad for privacy than having the parent click a button that says the account is for a child under 18.
- triceratops 8mo agoWe already have that. On a spectrum of options, no verification is the least privacy intrusive. Baking it in at the OS level or forcing passport uploads are the most intrusive. My proposal is in the middle. A determined actor could maybe follow you to the store when you purchase your verification code, take a quick picture with a powerful camera (or bribe the store to do it sneakily) and unmask you online. But there's no way to do it at scale. And if you buy the code from a reseller (ask a panhandler to buy one for you, perhaps) then it's even more robust.
- gzread 8mo agoWe don't have that. If we did, California wouldn't have to mandate it.