A company contracted by the government to assess technologies for verifying the ages of online users says it can be done privately, robustly and effectively.
If Government-issued ID is used, it cannot be stored past the length of time it takes to verify
That just reverses the circle of trust. If I can’t trust the users not to lie about their age (“trust me, bro”) in a DM, then the users can’t trust me not to keep copies/sell their private information (“trust me, bro”). That’s a super-flawed verification method.
For what it’s worth, the legislation seems pretty clear on this one point (despite being unbelievably unclear on just about every other point):
How that’s going to play out in practice is anybody’s guess at this point.
That just reverses the circle of trust. If I can’t trust the users not to lie about their age (“trust me, bro”) in a DM, then the users can’t trust me not to keep copies/sell their private information (“trust me, bro”). That’s a super-flawed verification method.
Oh yeah definitely. I just view that as a separate problem. Both are problems, but as I see it: