„Papiere, bitte: Gesetze zur Altersüberprüfung gefährden die Online-Sicherheit und Privatsphäre aller.“ Gesetze, die Erwachsene dazu verpflichten, ihren Führerschein oder Reisepass hochzuladen, um auf Apps, Websites und VPNs zuzugreifen, werden das gesamte Internet weniger sicher machen.
https://this.weekinsecurity.com/papers-please-age-verification-laws-threaten-everyones-online-security-and-privacy/
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This analysis article looks at why age verification laws are bad for cybersecurity, privacy, and surveillance.
> „Age verification laws are a lazy way for politicians and governments to appear as if they are tackling online child safety, but without any forethought to the future consequences of amassing vast banks of personal information for verifying people’s identities.“
That’s the neat part, they don’t care about our privacy and security. If it was up to megacorps and governments, they’d have cameras installed in our toilets to watch us go.
There is a very simple solution which is to have a trusted third party who is not the government – but who does have a good reason to need to know your identity and age etc. i.e. your bank – act as an intermediary, such that when you need your age verified, the bank verifies it’s you and the thing you’re trying to access trusts your bank to say if you’re old enough or not without having to share your actual age, dob or any other personal data.
This is about surveillance and data harvesting. It was never made to protect anyone.
This is a tool to give them full control of our digital lives.
A solution exists.
Website generates a token.
You enter this into a government-operated service and get a signed token.
You enter the signed token into the website.
The website checks with the government service if the signature is legit.
Website doesn’t know who you are. Government can deduce what website you visited by the IP address the verification request came from, but there are ways around this for websites that want to be privacy-friendly (proxies)
Simply use a VPN from a country that doesn’t have this rubbish.
Otherwise don’t use it, they will never get my details, I’d rather stop being online.