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Do we make contractors do age verification on their supplies when building a liquor store or strip club? The OS is a tool used by Meta, just like the utilities
by pstuart 7mo ago
Do we make contractors do age verification on their supplies when building a liquor store or strip club? The OS is a tool used by Meta, just like the utilities and the compute itself.
Meta Apps can have age verification but it should be at the point of service, not the supply chain.
And even if we were to agree to this, uploading your IDs to an untrusted third party is asking too much.
- alistairSH 7mo agouploading your IDs to an untrusted third party is asking too much. So have the government do it? They already know who we are and when we were born.
- kevin_thibedeau 7mo agoThat requires trusting a government with a power that is likely to be abused.
- ToucanLoucan 7mo agoThe power to tell people how old someone is?
- mgulick 7mo agoThe power of correlating your real ID with your browsing activity on the internet.
- ToucanLoucan 7mo agoI mean, as much as I don't want the Government to be able to do that, I don't want private industry to be able to do that even more tbh. Though both options are pretty horrendous privacy-wise.
- pstuart 7mo agoUntil recently I felt the opposite way -- what they could do with that was more targeted advertising. The government currently in power is demonstrating that they can do far worse, and plans to.
- alistairSH 7mo agoBut they already know my age (and my address, and my SS#, and my income, and a whole bunch of other stuff).
- kevin_thibedeau 7mo agoThey don't know your full behavioral profile. They also may be willing to sell that data to third parties who use it for nefarious purposes.
- monocasa 7mo agoThey absolutely do. Anything you can get from data brokers doesn't require a warrant.
- autoexec 7mo agoIt's not enough for the government to know. Platforms, websites, and advertisers want to know. That's why the law facebook has been pushing for doesn't have a simple "is 18+" flag but instead has a long list of age buckets so that advertisers and platforms can target specific demographics even when they are minors.
- pocksuppet 7mo agoIsn't that necessary because different levels of protection will be applied to each bracket?
- autoexec 7mo agoThe law doesn't require any protection levels at all. It just requires your OS to tell every website you visit which bucket your children fall into. Every website and platform can use that information in whatever ways they want, even if it's just to adjust how best to groom a victim or to decide which ads to push at a child. They could also use it to say that a 9 year old can't watch a certain video that a 13 year old can, but that would be entirely their choice.
- lemoncookiechip 7mo agoI'd much rather a third party ID that I can easily bypass because they're lazy and cost saving every step of the way, than a governmental ID which will be x100 harder to bypass and can be abused by the goverment whenever there's a man-child in power who likes going after groups of people who don't agree with him. But in a perfect world it would be parents doing their job and parenting. You can grab your child's pad, phone, laptop, whatever, and black list the entire internet allowing only a few select white lists of your choice. But it's too hard to educate parents on how to do that I guess, assuming this was ever about children and not data collection, which it is that.
- basilgohar 7mo agoAnd then the government gets official, explicit, intimate knowledge of everything we do online. With our express permission now.