| ▲ | fauigerzigerk 5 hours ago | |
I don't have a problem with verifying that I am an adult as long as I don't have to provide information that makes it easy to track down my identity. The UK government has approved 7 age verification methods. Not one of them meets that standard. That's not an accident. https://www.ofcom.org.uk/online-safety/protecting-children/a... | ||
| ▲ | strangecasts 2 hours ago | parent [-] | |
It drives me a little bonkers that the UK already tried implementing age verification in 2019, with an approach that would have been easy to make verifiably anonymous: buying a single-use code from a newsagent who checks your age with ID [1], but can't connect the code to you specifically That attempt officially failed because the UK failed to inform the EU about it, but I suspect it was also much harder to sell people on having to buy "porn passes" than on "just" kicking kids off phones [1] https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2019/oct/16/uk-drops-pla... | ||