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.
Thanks, the article was entirely useless, just glazing the proposal.
While this is a better turd than k-ID and the likes, it’s still a turd. What is this supposed to achieve? Doesn’t stop kids from accessing anything, but hinders VPN usability (tunneling into ID requiring locations is going to be useless, as you can’t verify) and lays out the foundation for labeling anything as “adult” content, which we all know never stops at actual adult content.
The fuck am I reading?
What’s your confusion?
Here’s the German open source app https://github.com/Governikus/AusweisApp
You can read how it works here https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet and a decent summary here https://feddit.org/post/28546687/12555790 There are already apks downloadable from their repos for testing purposes.
Thanks, the article was entirely useless, just glazing the proposal.
While this is a better turd than k-ID and the likes, it’s still a turd. What is this supposed to achieve? Doesn’t stop kids from accessing anything, but hinders VPN usability (tunneling into ID requiring locations is going to be useless, as you can’t verify) and lays out the foundation for labeling anything as “adult” content, which we all know never stops at actual adult content.