Comment by sofixa
14 days ago
> In our case, having a full history of all opinions, interactions, locations, and behavior linked to full identity of people is what we are ultimately talking about here. It's already well on its way, but it will make it worse.
Well, not really. Age verification doesn't have to, and IMO should not, lead to a linked identity. Just a blind check "are you a real human older than X years old? Yes! OK". That way you get the benefits of age restrictions and real human validation, without any of the potential privacy ramifications.
But to be clear, most real people's online presence is under their own names (or linked trivially to their own names, like a cutesy turn on their name for an instagram handle that is linked to their Facebook account which has their full name). It's already possible, and done, to track your public social media presence and interactions. Places like HN and even Reddit are much more niche than that.
This implies you can control your name being linked to your social media profile based on whether or not you type it in?
That's not required though. Your friends have already given your name to them by allowing the app access to their contacts.
That's the whole point of this thread, the current setup makes a google account mandatory, with all the terrible consequences on private life that it has.
It should not.