Comment by Dylan16807
5 days ago
I'm not overly concerned with 16 year olds. But the tools for protecting younger children suck. A consistent account setting and header would do a lot to improve parental controls.
> What you can do is allow the government and private companies to track everyone, everywhere, all the time. And you can create more gatekeepers that hold personal identity data, misuse it, and leak it.
This is already happening. A central setting would improve privacy over the way things are right now.
> A central setting would improve privacy over the way things are right now.
What? How? What improvement are you seeing that I'm not?
Putting all our PII into one huge repository and then letting corps and govts access it sounds like a dystopian nightmare. This is why we don't like Palantir.
What happens if a bad guy steals that data and your identity? They go and look at CSAM using your ID? The police turn up at your door and cart you off to prison? Are you really going to be able to argue that it wasn't you? If so, what is the point of the system? If we're relying on IP addresses and other evidence for access (so you can fight these charges) can't we just use them in the first place?
I don't know what you're talking about, but it's not what this kind of bill is about.
This kind of bill is about the OS telling things whether you're: 0-12, 13-15, 16-17, 18+
No databases, no stealable identity, only the barest sliver of 2 bits of PII.
As for how it's an improvement, we already have sites asking to see your driver's license or pictures of your face for much worse age verification paradigms. If most of those changed to a local age setting, privacy would go up.
How does the OS know that you moved from the "13-15" bracket to the "16-17" bracket without knowing your DoB?
And this is the thin edge. Because in a few years there'll be a bill saying something like "too many children are lying about their age online. We need to verify their age" and then we're capturing IDs and storing them somewhere.
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