| ▲ | gjsman-1000 2 days ago | |
The realistic outcome, most likely, is mDL (mobile driver's license) automatically being passed through from your OS, to your browser, to the website. This will make compliance with age verification requirements easy, in addition to making ban enforcement and blocking crawlers/robots/spam much easier. There's already a W3C browser standard in development - The Digital Credentials API. Apple is adding support for "Verify with Wallet on the Web" in iOS/macOS 26. Chrome is currently rolling out Origin Trials. https://digitalcredentials.dev/ https://www.w3.org/TR/digital-credentials/ https://developer.apple.com/videos/play/wwdc2025/232/ https://developer.chrome.com/blog/digital-credentials-api-or... On the flip side, there's no anonymity. Welcome to the real Web 3.0 - an internet which has been finally put in a box, for better and worse. An internet which is finally forced to respect national laws, for better and worse. An internet where what you say online, will be treated with no difference than if you had said it in person. | ||
| ▲ | isaacremuant 2 days ago | parent | next [-] | |
> An internet where what you say online, will be treated with no difference than if you had said it in person. It's 1984. Surveillance in your home so you only speak the government speak. If you criticize the government or the genocides commited by them you're "doing hate speech/wrong think" and you'll receive the cops at your door to be disappeared without recourse The populace will be told you were evil and no one dares question too much or they will be next. Or we can tell them to fuck off and stop buying into every little crisis and fake right v left fight they try to sell. | ||
| ▲ | phba 2 days ago | parent | prev | next [-] | |
From the second link: > The privacy considerations for digital credentials are not static. They will evolve over time as the ecosystem matures, and may be informed by the behavior of other actors in the ecosystem, improvements in other layers of the stack, new threats to user privacy, as well as changing societal norms and regulations. Boil the frog slowly and carefully, and look out for opportune moments that could help to speed up the process. | ||
| ▲ | koolala 2 days ago | parent | prev [-] | |
The Semantic Surveillance Web | ||