US may force operating systems to have mandatory age verification, share info with third parties

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• core@leminal.space ⁨41⁩ ⁨seconds⁩ ago

  When they say OS level age verification, they forget that everything has an OS, coffee makers, routers, cameras, cars, etc etc Verify your age before you can take a photo, or make coffee, that shit will die quick. And if it somehow doesn’t, there will be hacks for it.

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• Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  PALANTIR, GOOGLE, MS, META cant wait to get thier hands on this.

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  • corsicanguppy@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    That’s why they’re lobbying for it.

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• IHeartBadCode@fedia.io ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Ultimately they want to be able to track every interaction you have online and tie it to your real life person. And they want to keep those record until the end of time. And they want AI and data analytics so that they can one day determine what "kind of person" you are.

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  • Tollana1234567@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    mostly dissidents against the govt, and potentially track reproductive statistics of women.

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• UnfortunateShort@lemmy.world ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I mean, they can say Linux must do it, but then Linux won’t do it and then what? This will probably be as effective as the war on drugs or efforts to stop media piracy (or even just private copying). They try, they fail, they avoid the topic as much as possible.

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  • DFX4509B@lemmy.wtf ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Use DRM to block non-trusted OSes from accessing the web?

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  • artifex@piefed.social ⁨8⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    If they’re serious about it it will eventually be made into a requirement for serious services. I could imagine federal regulations requiring online banking, accessing government services (including school-related services), and maybe even ecommerce and payment processing looking for this trusted info, and refusing to run otherwise. Like TPM on steroids.

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  • DFX4509B@lemmy.wtf ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Then they’ll just block Linux from accessing the web.

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• snoons@lemmy.ca ⁨9⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  The US can kiss my shiny, metal ass.

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• Flashtrack@piefed.social ⁨7⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They want to find the kiddies

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• givesomefucks@lemmy.world ⁨11⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  They can’t just verify age, they have to verify identity to verify age…

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