Technology

I’m going to be the contrarian here and say the bill is… good? It seems sensibly lax: The OS is required to ask for age, without external proof or requirement to share, and then provide apps who request it an interface to verify your answer.

I think taking the responsibility to verify age out of whichever dodgy data broker asks for it and unto the operating system itself, and ultimately the user if they lied, is a far better solution to the “problem” of age verification, which I don’t believe is going anywhere any time soon.

If you disagree please don’t be mean, I only just read the draft bill

Honestly, if this is the direction the world is hellbent on going - which it seems so -I think this is the most sensible implementation I've heard so far, as far as privacy and data-handling goes anyways.

Everything sensitive is handled locally on-device, and websites only get a token "proving" your age.

While it does put more onus onto developers, I would much rather this over the currently popular implementation.

I mean who actually thought that websites having you upload everything needed to steal your identity onto some fuckwit third-party's server, who will inevitably retain that info much longer than actually required, just waiting to be leaked was a good idea when literally less than a decade ago every Western Government's primary online advice was to NOT do that.