EU chief calls for a bloc-wide push on an age verification app to protect children online. If enforced, users will have to prove their age to access legally restricted sites.
The EU age verification system, of which I’m talking and of which the OP was about, is not baked into the OS. That might be the case in the US. I’m lucky I don’t live there. And this discussion here is about the EU system, not the US one.
Your ISP has a record over every single website you’ve visited and your payment provider knows 99% of all purchases you’ve made and your phone knows where you’ve been at all times. Your threshold for having to trust that laws prevent wanton use of all this information doesn’t shift with anonymous age gating.
Frankly the concerns you display in the post reveal to me that you’ve not spent a great detail looking into what’s actually being proposed.
Why doesn’t EU investigate criminals and pedos with questionable search queries and website history? The corpos have the data of every individual. It was never about protecting the children in the first place. Otherwise they’d be solving the root of the problem instead of using such half measures.
The EU age verification system, of which I’m talking and of which the OP was about, is not baked into the OS. That might be the case in the US. I’m lucky I don’t live there. And this discussion here is about the EU system, not the US one.
Your ISP has a record over every single website you’ve visited and your payment provider knows 99% of all purchases you’ve made and your phone knows where you’ve been at all times. Your threshold for having to trust that laws prevent wanton use of all this information doesn’t shift with anonymous age gating.
Frankly the concerns you display in the post reveal to me that you’ve not spent a great detail looking into what’s actually being proposed.
Why doesn’t EU investigate criminals and pedos with questionable search queries and website history? The corpos have the data of every individual. It was never about protecting the children in the first place. Otherwise they’d be solving the root of the problem instead of using such half measures.