Post B5bIFz9otSz1RsJt8C by haljor@sfba.social
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 (DIR) Post #B5axKRNjndK36e73qK by protonprivacy@mastodon.social
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       Age verification sounds reasonable until you realize it means every adult hands over their ID just to go online. We wrote about why this is a terrible idea and what should happen instead. https://proton.me/blog/keep-age-verification-from-killing-anonymity-online
       
 (DIR) Post #B5b1fJaCOIJQoe9Ods by juangames@mastodon.social
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       @protonprivacy Exactly, I don't really mind when a bar asks for your ID to make sure you're over 18 because they see only the birth date once and that's it. What scares me is that digitally one's id will most likely be stored with all the data in it.
       
 (DIR) Post #B5b2NYn9CpVqj8Iy9I by miaholte@snabelen.no
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       @protonprivacy Its not reasonable at all.Put age restrictions on the hardware instead of the software. Ban smart phones for the youngest kids.
       
 (DIR) Post #B5b6HQTTcG8f0iR0SG by notthatkindofdoctor@mastodon.social
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       @protonprivacy Age verification is stupid. Nothing online has ever harmed me the way real life humans did when I was a child.
       
 (DIR) Post #B5b6aMf6110GgitrYe by cjustind@mamot.fr
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       @protonprivacy how that, relying on facial scans would be better? This is so obviously yet another wrong path to take.
       
 (DIR) Post #B5b9fkhsLPnQZXSdIu by gcvsa@mstdn.plus
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       @protonprivacy This would be a whole lot more believeable if Proton's CEO wasn't a publicly-known Trump supporter by his own announcement.
       
 (DIR) Post #B5bD6lzvx2bqG4U2Xg by xs4me2@mastodon.social
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       @protonprivacy Simply unacceptable and another step into a big Brother total control scenario.What could possibly go wrong…
       
 (DIR) Post #B5bDfIqkJcP9zZeQy0 by KingmaYpe@mastodon.green
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       @protonprivacy The question is: can you trust your government tot anonimize your age?
       
 (DIR) Post #B5bHQX2leztrUEUDFw by wpeckham@social.linux.pizza
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       @protonprivacy the both parts bother me. The first is for those laws that require you to submit an ID and probably a government ID that identifies you absolutely and that goes into a database. How many databases with IP information have not been broken into in the last decade? That's a much smaller number than the number of ones that have not been broken into. But then the second part is when you use a computer anytime you connect to something or get a service from something, it gets to say, hey, are you a juvenile and it gets an answer. So the predators know exactly where the next victim is. Sure, the honest services can protect those potential victims. But how good a job have they done of that already? If that was a priority, and if any of them, even one, was really good at that job of protecting the potential victims, we wouldn't be considering these laws to begin with. This is a plan that's likely to generate a feeding frenzy!
       
 (DIR) Post #B5bIFz9otSz1RsJt8C by haljor@sfba.social
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       @protonprivacy Holy shiitake!
       
 (DIR) Post #B5bzwrWDSxqiEqUGLQ by Lep0le@piaille.fr
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       @protonprivacy it's time to develop other type of communication on mesh radio networks for example or so...
       
 (DIR) Post #B5clupGdf2K6TdIOG0 by aspragg@ohai.social
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       @protonprivacy > Checks must be conducted entirely client-side, on the user’s device. […] And the code that underpins the system must be open-source, allowing the public to be certain that these expectations are being met.So, the checks must be on the client, with open source code that the user can inspect… and modify… on their client?I thoroughly approve (also related, right2repair) - I'm just not convinced you'll be able to sneak it past even the most techno-ignorant of legislators!
       
 (DIR) Post #B5eK7O3Bkt2HQg7qJk by TCatInReality@mastodon.social
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       @protonprivacy What an absurd, hysterical take.Age verification only impacts access to age gated content.You can still access search engines, news sites, your banking and other apps, etc. Most of the online world is not age gated.Of course, we need proper data privacy regulation about any data collection, including age verification. That's the real fight, not scaremongering that allows adult content to run riot.
       
 (DIR) Post #B5lZkhFNAweng9kKu0 by Boosh22@mastodon.social
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       @protonprivacy agree, it's a step in the wrong direction.
       
 (DIR) Post #B5rmG2VWXnUAzblwp6 by FourQ@mastodon.online
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       @protonprivacy It's a step way too far. They'd control all data for everyone. Everything is online, your family, friends, employer, bank, house, shopping, doctors, the lot, and it's only getting worse. Everything has an app, whether it's needed or not & you're simply expected in 2026 to be online.But they could cut you off for any reason. Lock you out of everything. You'd be more at their mercy than you are now. All because they have your ID linked up.It's alarming that's not too far fetched.