Mapping the spread of age-verification laws
Governments around the world are making age a condition for accessing certain parts of the internet. This page tracks where such laws are in force, where they are advancing, and how different countries are approaching the same policy goal.
7 Comments
adespoton@lemmy.ca · 125 pts · 32d
Thing is, governments aren’t making age a condition; they’re making identity verification a condition. Age is just the excuse.
lustrum@sh.itjust.works · 49 pts · 32d
placebo@lemmy.zip · 40 pts · 32d
Dave@nord.pub · 25 pts · 32d
Really useful. Thank you!
floofloof@lemmy.ca · 25 pts · 32d
They missed Canada? Canada has a bill C-34 in the works which bans social media for under-16s and just happens to require everyone to submit their ID to non-Canadian corporations.
UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world · 23 pts · 32d
I would actually love Proton to spin up a service for age verification that actually does just that. Be it only to see how fast governments start complaining when they tell them they don't have any data on their users...
scrubbles@poptalk.scrubbles.tech · 18 pts · 32d
reluctant_squidd@lemmy.ca · 12 pts · 31d
How can they just enforce this? I guess I know how they intend to, but I don’t trust these corporations to handle this properly and I sure as hell don’t think some governments will have citizen’s interests at heart, so whatever service they force into requiring me give my ID for, just won’t get me as a user. Or will lose me as one.
I’m prepared to go back to writing letters and sending scrapbooks. Screw them all.
dunestorm@lemmy.world · 2 pts · 27d
Age verificationMass Surveillance, there FTFY.