irelephant [he/him]
katy ✨physically im in the uk mentally im literally anywhere else
Kittyroll (She/Her/Cat/Kitty)even australia? or germany?
i'm not sure australia is a real place tbh
ByteJunkYou’re confusing it with New Zealand, which is clearly made up.
absGeekNZAgreed, they are confused.
Australia is where the spiders and kangaroos are.
New Zealand is where the hobbits are from, clearly imaginary.
australia also has robert irwin which is the only good thing to come from there.
hey now bluey is great
What about The Wiggles?
I checked the list of countries of Europe, America, Asia & Africa and I couldn’t find it. It’s definitely not real.
MalReynoldsNah, oz is cooked already, in this case 'social media ban' for under 16s, same identity/privacy issues no doubt once they get their shit together but this time you're giving ID to meta and tiktok instead of pornhub, significantly worse IMO.
pewgar_seemsimandroidbecome digitally estonian: www.e-resident.gov.ee/become-an-e-resident/
this would be great because according to kerli estonia is made of ice cream mountains and chocolate skies.
and we all hate microsoft here
GreatAlbatrossTrouble is, nobody knows where it’s at.
How does a digital residency do anything...
Chloé 🥕based on the first sentence on this website, tax evasion?
well i mean estonia does get tax from e resident’s as far as i know
irelephant [he/him]what. why?
Why not? 🤷
Clever girl
Fantastic!
Gutek8134Are you over 18?
- Yes
- No
This isn’t considered verification in the UK from what I can tell. Companies are now implementing AI face scans, ID checks and credit card verification to comply with the UK law. I’m not a lawyer or even British, but it wouldn’t make sense to me that companies would spend money to turn away their UK customers otherwise.
ddhHow are they checking that your website’s face scans are actually ‘working’ and not just passing everyone?
Also what stops someone just getting OBS virtual webcam and just feed it stock video of some old geezer…?
MeatPilotI have an idea. Cardboard cutout masks.
That’s never going to pass for a real person.
theneverfoxThey make you do things like open your mouth and smile
You’d have to use a video game… Which people are doing
samus12345New business idea, renting out your face via video feed to let people bypass age checks.
Rough business model to compete with free
Even if 3D images are required, surely there are 3D deepfake faces people can wear. But anyway, we’re being distracted by the part of this law that stops kids going online. The quiet part is the part that gets every adult to show their real face to some website. They need deepfake faces just as much if not more so.
Oh yeah, definitely. That is indeed the purpose of this and the problem here
The video game trick doesn’t work everywhere. I don’t know about deepfakes and such, both how easily available they are and how good they are at tricking the age verification.
You’re not thinking big: Rent out other people’s faces!
Instead of an actual click farm where slave workers click phones all day, you make an app.
The app works like this: When the users (or let’s call them: “Partners”) get a notification from your app, they just have to smile at the camera, sometimes do other expressions. They are then rewarded with points which they can trade for for actual real life discounts on real online stores. Something like 1 cent per picture.
You now setup a service for people who want to bypass facial age verification and feed their requests directly to the app for a small fee of 5 cents per verification.
I know about Online Safety Act, I was making a comparison between the system shown in the screenshot and the one I mentioned
Enter your birthdate:
01/01/1970
LucidlethargyIt says in the description that ID is required.
It was my attempt at a funny comparison between that system and the one shown in the screenshot
Just photoshop something together with a funny name.
Evil KittySometimes
Frankly this is a comically brilliant and absolutely outstanding example of engineering malicious compliance
Sadly, will not actually be sufficient. They put the full burden of this shit on the site owner, all of it, without exception.
You could host in a country like Cameroon, they won’t give a shit and EU won’t bother going after them. They could geoblock the whole country however.
Meh you just say “we don’t serve users from your country, we are not bound by your laws. users from the UK are breaking our tos”
This already happens occasionally with the EU’s GDPR.
it does, but i don’t think they’re actually following GDPR… GDPR applies to residents of the EU; not where they are accessing the content from… technically, if an EU resident accesses a non-GDPR-compliant site while visiting the US, the site is still legally obligated to follow GDPR
it’d be way to difficult and probably ineffectual to enforce that, but technically it’s there
Yup, that’s what we’re saying. Some sites don’t work in EU because they don’t want to comply with GDPR, so it’s likely some sites will stop working in UK because they don’t want to comply with their anti privacy laws.
that’s not super convincing though… just like TOS isn’t a protection from murder, it can’t protect against all things. i’m not sure how the law is worded, but it’s not quite so cut and dry
It’s pretty sufficient. I’m not British, I don’t sell products in Britain, I do not have British assets, and I’m compliant with all American laws. They can levy all of the fines they want but I’m not obligated to care.
unless you ever want to visit the UK
of course if you don’t ever want to, that’s fine… or if you’re small enough to fly under the radar
but just because you have no presence doesn’t mean you’ll never have any presence
「黃家駒 Wong Ka Kui」 | (aka: 鳳凰院 凶真 Hououin Kyouma)They could geoblock the whole country however.
The Great Firewall of TERF Island
we can compromise and just firewall jk rowlings house
Would the firewall replace her mold wall?
Okay, just set the old hag on fire and call it a day.
HoimoUK left the EU, so the EU won’t be doing anything regardless of your host country.
I recently looked through the requirements on their website, and to me it sounded like every email service falls well into their “user to user communication” category, which would have to “assess the risks”. It’s not really different than communicating in an internet forum, except it’s not public, but that’s not really a factor i think. Sending porn via email is probably as old as email itself.
Email providers cant moderate their users’ mails (i mean they could try, but that would likely be the end of them for the obvious breach in privacy). And having people have to age-verify for an email account would be ludicrous, especially considering children need emails for school, etc.
I wonder what the official.
You can get porn in a google image search, even in the UK. No ID or login required. I did see a comment about it not applying to search engines, which really does make you wonder what is the fucking point!!
So a company can collect copies of everyone’s ID cards.
Cevilia (they/she/…)The UK doesn’t have ID cards.
Are you sure about that?
The UK seems to have passports and drivers licenses. Screenshots from the age verification dialog boxes on websites allow you to verify your age with an ID card, because they do exist.
How are they verifying age?