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0 pointsinetknght12d ago0 comments

> Thing is, when these “make the websites collect your ID” proposals come up, the overwhelming sentiment here is “this is terrible and we need to do it lower in the stack”.

Perhaps the "overwhelming" sentiment is paid actors? Or people whose jobs depend on not having that risk assigned to their employers?

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theptip12d ago

Perhaps, or perhaps there are legitimate privacy concerns with requiring every website to collect a photo of your ID to prove you are not a minor?

inetknghtOP11d ago

There are legitimate privacy concerns with requiring every website to collect a photo of your ID to prove you are not a minor.

Those concerns are amplified when it's done even lower in the stack. You don't want a website to collect your ID? Neither do I. I also don't want my OS to collect anything about me either.

theptip11d ago

Is that true though? I trust MSFT, AAPL, GOOG, META more than I trust every website that would be collecting IDs. Most of those guys already have my payment info anyway.

Centralization at the major corporations allows (in principle, if regulators act) tight monitoring, high standards, and you are always free to mandate privacy-preserving solutions like the EU did.

I can’t tell if you’re just anti- any age verification, or if you legitimately think that conditional on age verification happening, you’d rather that every website starts collecting ID as part of signup. Can you help me understand why you think it’s better for every single website (eg porn, chat sites, forums, etc) to be required to collect photos of your ID?

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