It's ba-ack... UK watchdog publishes age verification proposals

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• flamingos@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  In 2022, Daniel Pryor, then head of research at the Adam Smith Institute think tank, warned that any tech-savvy teen would likely be able to circumvent restrictions, while adults entering their details stood every chance of being exposed in the event of a data breach.

  Can’t believe the Tories have got me agreeing with the Adam Smith Institute.

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• snaprails@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  “Ofcom also states that sites must not provide information about or links to Virtual Private Network (VPN) providers.” That’s every other YouTuber fucked then.

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  • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s also just impressively authoritarian

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• Bassman27@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Pretty sure the last thing anyone wants to do is upload a picture of their face to a porn site…

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  • BruceTwarzen@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Imagine working as a porn age vertivicator

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  • peter@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Well some people want to do it or porn wouldn’t exist

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• Magnus@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  It’s sad that we need to pretend to be french to have equal internet freedom in the UK.

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  • Emperor@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    That’s how they get you - the French are too busy making le sweet sweet amour to watch porn. Probably. Better to pretend to be Dutch or German.

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• peter@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  We need age verification for social media more than we do for porn

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• Emperor@feddit.uk ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Digital identity wallets and, our favorite, facial age estimation, where the features of a user’s face are analyzed to estimate the user’s age.

  Well that could be “fun”. Poor George Dawes - he’s just a big baby.

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  • captainlezbian@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    Ah yes, facial analysis, someday people will stop thinking this is even possible to get to the error rates they want

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• autotldr@lemmings.world [bot] ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  This is the best summary I could come up with:

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  However, service providers will likely be stuck between a rock and a hard place in implementing the guidance without also falling foul of privacy regulations.

  It doesn’t take a genius to imagine how a determined teenager might circumvent many of these restrictions, nor the potential privacy nightmare inherent in many of them if an adult is forced to share this level of info when accessing age-restricted sites.

  In 2022, the UK government threatened the requirement of handing over all range of personal data to access social media sites.

  The previous time around, the idea of allowing certain firms to work as information collaters / age verification service providers was floated, with critics correctly surmising this would create huge jackpot targets of citizen data.

  In 2022, Daniel Pryor, then head of research at the Adam Smith Institute think tank, warned that any tech-savvy teen would likely be able to circumvent restrictions, while adults entering their details stood every chance of being exposed in the event of a data breach.

  “Regardless of their approach, we expect all services to offer robust protection to children from stumbling across pornography, and also to take care that privacy rights and freedoms for adults to access legal content are safeguarded.”

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  The original article contains 561 words, the summary contains 204 words. Saved 64%. I’m a bot and I’m open source!

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• lemonflavoured@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  If they actually do this then a list of people doing it will be hacked within day and will quite strongly backfire on MPs...

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• DeathWearsANecktie@lemm.ee ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Ludicrous, authoritarian, outdated bullshit.

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