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Australia bans social media for under 16s (www.theverge.com)

submitted 6 days ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] PieMePlenty@lemmy.world 11 points 5 days ago (2 children)

Government provided open id service which guarantees age. Website gets trusted authority signed token witch contains just the age. We can do this safely. We have the technology. They could even do it only once on registration.

Digital id's exist already in the EU, and many countries run a sign on service already. We aren't far from this.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 days ago (1 children)

No. I don't want governments to know what social media I use, nor do I want social media to know what country I'm a citizen of. I don't want any connection between the two.

[–] CmdrShepard42@lemm.ee 2 points 5 days ago (1 children)

I'm pretty sure they all know this already.

[–] sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works 3 points 4 days ago

Sure, but I don't want to hand it over on a silver platter, especially for my kids.

[–] IDKWhatUsernametoPutHereLolol@lemmy.dbzer0.com 3 points 5 days ago* (last edited 5 days ago) (1 children)

Depending on what the token contains.

There are two implementations I could think of:

"This user has been verified to be at least [Age]. Sincerely, [Government Authority]" Assuming this is an identical token thats the same for everyone? Sure. I'm not opposed to this.

"This user has been verified to be at least [Age]. Unique Token ID: 23456" Hell No. When the government eventually wants to deanonymize someone, they could ask the website: "What was the token ID that was used to verify the user?" then if the website provides it, now the government can just check the database to see who the token belongs to. And this could also lead to the government mandating the unique token id to be stored.

[–] BMTea@lemmy.world 3 points 5 days ago

Why not just look up how it actually works in the real world instead of hypotheticals