ColinAge verification to use GNU/Linux? WTF!
https://www.theregister.com/2026/03/13/opinion_os_verification/
James Baker‼️ We have until Monday to tell MPs to save free access to the Internet ‼️
On Monday MPs are voting on the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill.
Amendments in this bill could give new Ministerial power to decide which internet services should be restricted, meaning all adults would need a digital ID check to establish their age to access services. #DigitalID #privacy #AgeGate
No ID Checks for Web Access
Take action! What’s the problem? The Government has proposed amendments to the Children Wellbeing and Schools Bill, which would give Ministers the power to restrict access to "internet services". This is supposed to give the Government the power to ban under 16s from social media but “internet services" is a very broad definition, which means any online platform can be included. The wording of the amendment means they could do this without even having to prove that these sites are harmful for children.
jackel23grRE: https://mastodon.social/@nixCraft/116170885888997339
This is unfortunate.
Governments are forcing #Enshitification "improvments" as law now. This problem , in my opinion, was always ment to be solved between parents/guardians and the children they care for. Yet this is really about forcing everyone with digital access to add a new layer of documentation and now in a way that will be ever more risky to compromise and mis-use.
Privacy GuidesApple's age verification tools have rolled out worldwide, but what exactly does that mean?
#Apple #AgeVerification #privacy #IdentityVerification #AgeGate #iPhone #iOS #Mac
Bogdan Buduroiu> funny how that works. you hand over your passport to use a chatbot and somewhere in a datacenter in iowa, a facial recognition algorithm is checking whether you look like a politically exposed person. your selfie gets a similarity score. your name hits a watchlist. a cron job re-screens you every few weeks just to make sure you haven’t become a terrorist since the last time you asked GPT to write a cover letter.
the watchers: how openai, the US government, and persona built an identity surveillance machine that files reports on you to the feds
53MB of source code leaked from a government endpoint. 269 verification checks. biometric face databases. SAR filings to FinCEN. and the same company that verifies your ChatGPT account.
Alexander Hau@why_not wieder zu kurz gedacht. Zentralisierte Social Media schadet jedem mit ihren undurchsichtigen Algorhitmen und der Kontrolle von Tech-Milliardären, nicht nur Kindern.
Diese gehört generell zerschlagen und demokratisiert oder verboten. Im Gegensatz zu den Ländern, wo wir das ohne zu zucken machen, wäre das hier angebracht.
Eine Alterssperre hat nur einen Sinn: Ausweisdaten aller Nutzer sammeln und verkaufen bzw. diese kriminalisieren.
Klares nein für #AgeGate.
N-gated Hacker News😒 Ah, the thrill of encountering an age gate: the modern equivalent of being carded for a juice box. 🥤 Now, revel in the EFF's endless crusade for digital justice, sprinkled with more donation pleas than a PBS telethon. 📺💸
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/so-youve-hit-age-gate-what-now #digitaljustice #agegate #EFF #donationpleas #technews #internetfreedom #HackerNews #ngated
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/so-youve-hit-age-gate-what-now #digitaljustice #agegate #EFF #donationpleas #technews #internetfreedom #HackerNews #ngated
So, You’ve Hit an Age Gate. What Now?
EFF is against age gating and age verification mandates, and we hope we’ll win in getting existing ones overturned and new ones prevented. But mandates are already in effect, and every day many people are asked to verify their age across the web, despite prominent cases of sensitive data getting leaked in the process.
Hacker NewsSo, You've Hit an Age Gate. What Now?
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/01/so-youve-hit-age-gate-what-now
#HackerNews #So #Hit #an #Age #Gate #What #Now #agegate #onlineprivacy #digitalrights #youthengagement
So, You’ve Hit an Age Gate. What Now?
EFF is against age gating and age verification mandates, and we hope we’ll win in getting existing ones overturned and new ones prevented. But mandates are already in effect, and every day many people are asked to verify their age across the web, despite prominent cases of sensitive data getting leaked in the process.
BGDon 🇨🇦 🇺🇸 👨💻Improving safety or a slippery slope into censorship?
Free speech advocates argue that simple verification on the interenet is a fool's effort and worry the increasing adoption of internet age-gate laws will enable the censorship of a broad range of information in the name of protecting kids from online harm.
They also worry these types of laws will allow tech behemoths to actively surveil users' actions and ultimately make the internet more exploitative rather than safer. https://www.wired.com/story/age-verification-is-sweeping-the-us-activists-are-fighting-back/ #Internet #AgeGate #AgeVerification #Privacy #DataPrivacy #DemocraticFreedom #FirstAmendment #DigitalRights #OnlineSafety #Security
