There are a lot of GOP-controller legislatures in the USA pushing through so-called “child protection” laws, but there’s a toll in the form of impacting people’s rights and data privacy. Most of these bills involve requiring adults to upload a copy of their photo ID.

  • Aetherielle
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    51 year ago

    If it’s private and secure and isn’t linked to your identity, we will share it and it will be useless because everyone who shares the same login is the same over-18 person.
    If it is in any way linked to your identity, the data is online and a target for breach which will expose said identity.
    There is no realistic way to implement this which both actually does anything at all, AND does not require adding attack surface for breaches.

    • Rikudou_Sage
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      11 year ago

      Please reread what I wrote. And regarding attack surface, everything you use adds attack surface.

      • Aetherielle
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        21 year ago

        Please reread what I wrote. And regarding everything you use adding attack surface, that is the absolute best argument to not use an additional service such as the aforementioned 3rd party auth.
        What are we doing here?