Neue digitale Geldbörse soll innerhalb weniger Monate getestet werden, um den Zugang zu sozialen Medien in Irland für unter 16-Jährige einzuschränken
https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2025/12/06/new-digital-wallet-to-be-tested-within-months-to-restrict-social-media-access-in-ireland-for-under-16s/
Von EchoedMinds
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Would someone please think of the children while we rollout mass surveillance systems
Nothing like a bit of government overreach in the morning. Will have ID checks on adult sites soon after this shite gets implemented and then we will need a digital ID like the UK are rail roading through soon after as we can’t not follow whatever shite the UK does despite it’s obvious flaws and issues.
Consultants are rubbing their hands. Another 500 million for brainstorming.
A good day for identity theft enthusiasts
„Mr Martin said “outright bans” for children on social media “need to be examined in considerable detail”.
He said his experience as a teacher showed him it was better to develop “self confidence and resilience” among young people.“
So what’s he going to do to actually start developing self confidence and resilience among young people?
You know, if the idea is it just works in with your MyGov details, then that sounds a lot better than the shite system the Brits seemed to come up with. If the idea is you can use your MyGov account to get some sort of authenticator code, which only gives websites a „This person is verified as being over 18“ message, it avoids a lot of the issue of dodgy websites stealing data.
The thing of handing over passports and photos to dodgy sites is horrific.
In a world where palantir exists this is a terrible idea.
Wait a minute, they won’t pass the OTB with services because that will annoy US companies, but they will rollout invasive mass surveillance on their own population, *despite* how it will annoy US companies.
as a teacher i support restricting social media access for under-16s but this is literally mass surveillance masquerading as child protection.
If they actually cared about children, they would be working to eliminate child poverty and homelessness.
I can’t see how this will work.
OTOH it will do wonders for the Irish tech industry. Teenagers will learn all about hacking, about VPNs, about open source software, about using their computer as a computer, not just an app store. in 10-20 yrs there’ll be a gneeration of skilled tech people here.
Former programmer now engineering manager here chiming in. It doesn’t have to be a big problem from a security standpoint more than just mygovid or any of the other gov websites already. It would just be an endpoint for a website to query to say yes or no to the question and could give a token to differentiate the request. I’m not super worried about the process itself but I think knowing what websites people access and being able to tie that to the person is the part that we should be worried about not the security of it as much.
Back in my day a childs internet safety was the parent’s responsibility but modern lazy parenting wins again and we’ll all get punished for it
If y’all are unhappy about this, please start flooding your TD’s inboxes and make phone calls.
It’s not the average citizen’s fault that people don’t know how to parent, the solution shouldn’t be everyone being treated like children. 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
This is not only against our basic human right to privacy, but also a huge security risk. Fraud cases will increase exponentially and along with that so will the price of our already bonkers insurances and don’t even let me start with the headache of having to prove you didn’t purchase/signed whatever product/service, censorships, etc.
Okay had a read through of the article, barely any mention of the British age restriction law, but it reads very very similar to it, so what’s the difference?
Also in my eyes it’s just dangerous and hazardous to the internet, yes I do agree that we should limit access to social media to children and teens but for under sixteens? seriously? these people are near adults surely you can trust them with a bit of common sense.
Alongside this how loose or tight is the definition of social media? is Reddit a social media? Is YouTube? what about Wikipedia? The exact same path was taken by the British so?
1. Being completely anonymous is bad
2. Being tracked is bad
Go figure.
_Restrict_ access? They’re not pushing for restricted access by people in their mid teens, they’re pushing for a blanket ban!
So porn sticks and dodgy dodgy boxes are the next big thing
VPN providers in for a profitable Christmas.
Modern kids will have to go around the back of the bike shed to do some sneaky social media.
Yay! Can’t wait for my photo ID to be leaked by a 3rd party company and used for fraud all because stupid parents can’t monitor their kids properly.
What bollocks. Try enforcing it you fuckin’ idiots…roll out the next scapegoat.
Social media is bad but I will never understand why they feel the need to lock teens out of communicating with their friends
What teenager (myself included) gives another person their phone number? It’s always Instagram or Snapchat
Chat Control by the backdoor. Maybe these fuckers will finally get voted out when current 15-17 year olds vote in the next GE
Websites are not responsible for parenting children. Governments are not responsible either. That it solely the responsibility of parents.
Removing anonymity online is the real end goal here. It’s so everything done or accessed online can be traced back to an individual. It’s about control.