Comment by wongarsu
7 days ago
Yes, in a perfect world the downsides are limited. But in the world we live in I predict a lot more leaks similar to the Tea app hack (which contained a lot of passports, linked to some quite private data from chats like medical documents)
The biggest hope I see is that the EU also wants to implement age restrictions, but with a lot more effort to get it right and make it compatible with a strong desire for privacy. Maybe that will make "proper" implementations easy and common enough that many of the downsides will be mitigated
Leaks of what? The tea app are morons — they literally stored the data! Why did they do it? Why not to delete immediately after verification?
Anyway, there are two questions here:
1. Do we need to verify the age of internet users?
2. How can we do it without sacrificing privacy of everyone involved?
> Why did they do it?
You can't monetise the data you don't store
How can you monetize pictures of IDs?
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