"Los controles de edad para todos no resuelven los problemas, sino que crean otros nuevos. La protección de los medios juveniles debería centrarse en qué servicios de información satisfacen sus necesidades" - https://netzpolitik.org/2025/am-beispiel-des-bibers-die-truegerische-sicherheit-von-alterskontrollen-im-netz/ #ageverification #privacy #privacidad
#AgeVerification
Michael Geist Notes Inclusion of Age Estimation in Bill S-209
With the introduction of age verification, I ran an analysis of the bill. Michael Geist did the same and noted the age estimation provisions.
https://www.freezenet.ca/michael-geist-notes-inclusion-of-age-estimation-in-bill-s-209/
#Censorship #News #AgeEstimation #AgeVerification #BillS209 #Canada #legislation #MichaelGeist
„The EU is launching a new age verification app in July, establishing a tool that will potentially allow for tighter enforcement of rules requiring online platforms to protect minors online.“
EU to launch age-check app as pressure builds on Big Tech
https://www.ft.com/content/6b672468-a085-47dc-b195-daa98d6a591b
„The EU is launching a new age verification app in July, establishing a tool that will potentially allow for tighter enforcement of rules requiring online platforms to protect minors online.“
#AgeVerification
RE: https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5u54z2qgkq43dh2nzwzdbbhb/post/3lqeeo63pjd2m
Conservative Internet Censorship Bill, Age Verification, is Back. Our Analysis
The Conservative party backed internet censorship bill, the age verification bill, is back before the senate already.
#Pornhub and three other #porn sites face #EU child safety probe
#Europe tries to force age verification onto #Pornhub and other adult sites
European regulators have opened formal proceedings into Pornhub and three other adult platforms for suspected violations of the #DigitalServicesAct (DSA), the #EuropeanCommission announced yesterday. Pornhub, #Stripchat , #XNXX , and #XVideos are accused of failing to prevent minors from accessing adult content.
#privacy #ageverification #xxx
#Texas Requires #Apple and #Google to Verify Ages for App Downloads
The state’s governor signed a new law that will give parents more control over the apps that minors download, part of a raft of new legislation.
#privacy #ageverification
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/05/27/technology/apple-google-age-verification-apps-texas.html
Europe tries to force age verification onto Pornhub and other adult sites https://arstechni.ca/Ksf5 #ageverification #pornhub #Policy
Así imagina la #UE una internet adaptada a los niños - https://netzpolitik.org/2025/mehr-alterskontrollen-weniger-sogwirkung-so-stellt-sich-die-eu-ein-kindgerechtes-internet-vor/ #ageverification #DSA #privacy #privacidad
Keeping People Safe Online – Fundamental Rights Protective Alternatives to Age Checks - https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/05/keeping-people-safe-online-fundamental-rights-protective-alternatives-age-checks #ageverification #privacy #privacidad
First, they'll ask for your official IDs to confirm your age and identity.
This will create a large treasure trove
of sensitive data, which will attract criminals, and will inevitably leak from either negligence or malice, sooner than later.
Then, they'll claim your official ID is
unreliable, because it was stolen so many times, and demand you share your biometric data.
They will collect your face scan,
your palm scan, and even your iris scan (no exaggeration, these are all already being collected by some companies for identification). They will claim it's super safe.
This will create a large treasure trove
of sensitive biometric data, which will attract criminals, and will inevitably leak from either negligence or malice, sooner than later.
Then what? Rinse and escalate.
You will have lost control of not just your corporate social media accounts by participating to this, but to any data capable of validating your identity, to your privacy rights, to the protections you could use online to stay safe.
We don't have to wait that it escalates.
We can, and must, push back and say No now. Start to say No now.
Age Verification in the European Union: The Commission's #AgeVerification App - https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/04/age-verification-european-union-mini-id-wallet #UE #privacidad #privacy
»#TimCook calls #Texas governor over #AppStore #ageverification bill: The legislation would make Texas the biggest state yet to pass an “app-store accountability” law.« https://9to5mac.com/2025/05/23/tim-cook-calls-texas-governor-over-age-verification-bill/?eicker.news #tech #media #news
"The second approach is much broader, covering every social media user, and that’s tackling the way the platforms function. We have plenty of reporting and research that shows social media platforms are designed to be addictive — to ensure people spend more time on the app, thus generating more advertising profits. Social media platforms learned techniques from gambling companies to keep users hooked by using likes, notifications, and other methods to entice people to keep coming back, triggering dopamine responses that their brains craved even if the platforms made them feel worse at the same time.
Tackling those addiction design practices, dark patterns in interface design that nudge people to perform certain actions, and the way the platforms’ algorithms spread and amplify certain (often extreme or sensationalist) content to keep people engaged is a more difficult task than a hard age limit. Despite the country’s decision to move forward with an age limit, Australia’s eSafety Commissioner has already been examining and reporting on platform design issues and the issues with algorithmic recommendation systems.
If we’re serious about minimizing the harms of social media platforms, design interventions and algorithmic limits are a much more promising approach."
https://www.disconnect.blog/p/social-media-must-be-reined-in
#SocialMedia #AddictiveDesign #Algorithms #BigTech #DarkPatterns #AgeVerification #NannyState
Kids Say They're Using Photos of #Trump and #Markiplier to Bypass 'Gorilla Tag' #AgeVerification
Kids say they are using pictures of Trump, YouTuber Markiplier, and the G-Man from Half-Life to bypass newly integrated age restriction software in the VR game #GorillaTag.
Kids Say They're Using Photos of #Trump and #Markiplier to Bypass '#GorillaTag' #AgeVerification
Score another point for the "absolutely no one ever could have predicted this outcome" department.
From: blenderdumbass . org
I shall complain a little bit on a stance from EFF and how I think they should be pushing harder. Not so long ago Australia decided to ban any platform where users can upload things, to anybody who is younger than 16 years. This is an ageist, paternalistic atrocity and has to be fought with viciousness. Yet EFF seem to only understand the ...
Read or listen: https://blenderdumbass.org/articles/eff_is_not_opposing_age_verification_hard_enough
#EFF #Australia #Ageism #Paternalism #AgeVerification #SocialMedia #Privacy #Freedom
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