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Could online age verification be done in a way that protects privacy and autonomy? (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) by 58008@lemmy.world to c/ask_experienced_devs@programming.dev

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Apologies if this isn't the right place to ask this, but I thought actual developers with a deep understanding of how technology actually works would be the people to ask!

If you were tasked with setting up a safe and secure way to do this, how would you do it differently than what the UK government is proposing? How could it be done such that I wouldn't have to worry about my privacy and the threat of government suppression? Is it even theoretically possible to accomplish such a task at such a scale?

Cheers!

EDIT: Just to be clear: I'm not in favour of age verification laws. But they're on their way regardless. My question is purely about the implementation and technology of the thing, rather than the ethics or efficacy of it. Can this seemingly-inevitable privacy hellscape be done in a non-hellscapish way?

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[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

OK, whatever. I'm done with this conversation. I'd be willing to bet you're just justifying your authoritarian parenting to yourself, and I am uninterested in debating it with you.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Sure.

Reply to this.

Not the comment where I actually make my case.

[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Your entire case presumes that there is a harm to prevent. Kids are prevented from drinking alcohol because we know alcohol is harmful to minors. If there is no harm, then there is no harm to prevent.

You are rationalizing your prejudices, and you know it. I'm done with you. I actually have PTSD from being abused as a kid and your bullshit "oh I have trauma cuz I saw a scary pic once" can actually get fucked, and I am now blocking you.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 0 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (1 children)

Alcohol is also harmful to adults.

So is the internet.

To engage with either without risk, mental fortitute and maturity is required.

You should inform the underpaid workers going insane moderating facebook that the pictures can't harm them. I'm sure their need for therapy will instantly vanish.

[–] bearboiblake@pawb.social 0 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Actually just fuck off. Please, just fuck off. Leave me alone. You are a liar. Fuck off. I am really struggling to disengage with you because I actually have real trauma and you are being extremely triggering. Please stop replying.

[–] MentalEdge@sopuli.xyz 0 points 5 months ago

I'm sorry. I hope you're ok.

But don't go telling people their pain isn't valid. You literally can't know.

And it's not your fucking place to ask. What you tried to do to me by doing so, I would never do to anyone. And I'm pretty sure you understand why.