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I'm not super against the idea of age verification online. I'm against the idea of these companies having my ID. A better (but still very imperfect) solution would be to have the government itself provide a login that would simply send a true/false back to the service you're trying to access.But even this has problems, beyond just privacy ones. There's many who don't have ID, who can't get ID, and even more who don't have ID that would be recognized in the local jurisdiction (whether it be from a foreign national, or someone in the USA with a Driver's License from New Mexico).
Anyways, the practice of age verification itself I don't have a problem with, but any implementation I can conceive is full of glaring issues that render it impossible without us forfeiting our rights to anonymity and/or surrendering our data to an untrustworthy source and or just being plain unreliable to attempt to use.
You dont have e-ID features? Wild..
Just last semester i learned how they are implemented and which protections they have in place to preserve privacy like specific identifiers
So a certain terminal can only get certain information e.g. over 18? yes/no
Our cigarett dispensers use this feature (those without a person to check)
You have unmanned cigarette sales? What country, if you don't mind my asking?
Europe
Europe is a country? 😳
A highschooler from America would most certainly say yes... saw it happen myself before lol
Well, people often mean a country when they say "America", too.
God I wish