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Congress Shocked to Discover 10 Year Olds Check the 'I'm over 18'
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Author : piperswe
Score : 32 points
Date : 2023-06-01 19:57 UTC (3 hours ago)
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| version_five wrote:
| Occasionally I'll click on a site, say a brewery, that asks me to
| put in my birthday, usually though a slider wheel or form. 90% of
| the time I just go to a different site. If I'm just browsing
| around I don't care that badly. Same with modal popups.
|
| I suppose if I was a kid who wanted to get to a site, I'd be more
| likely to make up an age. My point is that asking stupid
| questions to anonymous users probably turns away more legit users
| than kids.
| nubinetwork wrote:
| The alternative is those third party services that make you
| take pictures of yourself holding your ID... I absolutely
| despise these services though, because it's a huge hassle, on
| top of the privacy concerns attached to it.
| thmsths wrote:
| And in an ideal world that would be no big deal. Indeed when
| I buy alcohol at the liquor store the cashier does a brief
| check of the ID and inputs the DOB in his terminal. There is
| a good precedent for using my ID to check my age. But I have
| no illusions of what would happen if we used it for online
| age check: the picture of the ID would be stored forever. The
| website would try to collect all the available info and not
| just the DOB (which includes full name and address as well as
| height and weight) and try to monetize it. And then of course
| there is a the risk of data leaks. So in our current world I
| am afraid that online ID checks are a hard no.
| kbelder wrote:
| I've had to walk my child through the process of lying about
| their age on a website at least a dozen times by age 10.
|
| Thank you, Government, for making me have the "it's ok to lie to
| certain people under certain specific circumstances" conversation
| with my child far before she was ready.
| spondylosaurus wrote:
| "Never give out your real birthday online" was the party line
| when I was a kid... so a whole lot of us were apparently born
| on January 1st, 1900.
| dontlaugh wrote:
| The birthday emails were funny to read.
| m463 wrote:
| Hi birthday mate.
|
| We've both passed Jean Calment now!
|
| https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jeanne_Calment
| paulpauper wrote:
| Great, that means expect more inconvenience for people who are
| 18+. some people who break the system means we have to operate
| under the presumption of guilt for all. TSA for example.
| adr1an wrote:
| I'm surprised we still don't have a standard way of setting
| birthdate on browsers or OS. If we had, then setting could be
| given (and locked) by parents..
| suddenclarity wrote:
| Terrible headline. As the author himself pointed out, this has
| been discussed by politicians for decades. There just hasn't been
| a privacy acceptable method. Especially when you can vote without
| ID. It's just that more recently it's becoming more common to
| call for real ID checks to access the internet. Didn't the UK
| introduce a porn block so you have to ask your internet provider
| to access it..?
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