Comment on France seeks to ban social media for children under 15
limerod@reddthat.com 6 days agoThere is no such thing as anonymous data. It has been proven all data can be linked to you. The only data that is anonymous is the one they don’t collect.
the only way to have privacy-preserving age checks is when there’s a variable on the phone that stores whether the user is old enough. and gives that data forward to apps/websites trying to do age checks.
that variable can only be changed if you’re the rightful owner of the device, i.e. if you paid for it and have a code that’s on the purchase bill or sth. and children wouldn’t have access to that.
This wouldn’t work and be moot because phones and other devices are purchased by parents and guardians not children.
then they should hand out access tokens at the supermarket (need to be 18+ or 16+ whatever the age limit will be)
sunbeam60@feddit.uk 6 days ago
I agree that for the system to be anonymous the state has to live up to its commitment to anonymity. Have you read the EU’s regulation about this? In there is exactly a commitment that age verification has to be anonymous.
But, let’s take a reality check here:
Yes you can circumvent this logging (to some extent) through VPN - just like you can circumvent the requirement to verify your age with a VPN. But the vast majority don’t.