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Zuckerberg’s “Fix” for Child Safety Could End Anonymous Internet Access for Everyone
(reclaimthenet.org)
this post was submitted on 23 Feb 2026
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I’m not sure that what this article is claiming follows. Your device providing a token which confirms you’re an adult doesn’t imply that your real name will be provided to anybody, any more than, say, my banking app using my phone’s FaceID implies that that app has access to my biometric data
To me, age verification on-device make the most sense precisely because it allows for it to be secure and maintaining of privacy
The alternative is providing every site with your biometric data, photos of your documents like driving license, or both. Or that there’s some random third party which you give that data to and who then stores it on some server somewhere the security of which we can only guess at
I know sind will be tempted to say that it shouldn’t be happening at all and that it’s not about protecting kids and so on. But no matter how much we say that it _ is_ happening. This is what the new reality will be. The only question is where you want the scan of your face to be stored. Personally, I’d rather it be encrypted on my device
The alternative is people actually fucking parenting and not making the internet a dystopian hellscape.
Again, we can hope for whatever. But this is going to happen. So the question becomes what the best version is. I see no better option than on-device, encrypted age verification tokens
There's no way on-device options would work with FOSS operating systems, so if it does happen I'm SOL anyways, so wtf do I care? I'm not going back to corpo slop. If the people work together we can defeat shit like this before it happens, so why the defeatism?