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.
While I cannot agree on having to prove your identity online, this is ON PAPER better than what individual governments are doing right now (from what I know, I may be wrong though). I still don’t like it and think it’s a bad idea in general, but if EU countries are going to implement it in any case, at least it’s better to have something that protects your anonymity both ways (the government cannot see and track what your are visiting, and the sites cannot see and track your identity).
BUT, this is in paper. We will have to see the actual implementation.
And I would much rather not have anything like this (but good luck with all the far right parties that are being pushed right now…).
Yes, citizens without a phone or without Google / Apple integrety check (or a phone without NFC capability?) will be completely locked out of all the “age check compliant” websites.
While I cannot agree on having to prove your identity online, this is ON PAPER better than what individual governments are doing right now (from what I know, I may be wrong though). I still don’t like it and think it’s a bad idea in general, but if EU countries are going to implement it in any case, at least it’s better to have something that protects your anonymity both ways (the government cannot see and track what your are visiting, and the sites cannot see and track your identity).
BUT, this is in paper. We will have to see the actual implementation.
And I would much rather not have anything like this (but good luck with all the far right parties that are being pushed right now…).
Translation:
This means the goverment will be able to tell which websites individual users visit.
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Yes, citizens without a phone or without Google / Apple integrety check (or a phone without NFC capability?) will be completely locked out of all the “age check compliant” websites.