Dropsafe

by Alec Muffett

Tag: age verification

Vending machine error reveals secret face image database of college students | …I wonder if @getyoti are watching the public reaction to this?

2024/02/26
Fact-Checker @PolitiFact derides KOSA age-verification concerns as “False” because “there are other ways [beyond demanding ID] to assess users’ ages, such as self-reporting & face scanning tools, some of which are already in use”

2024/02/25
Nevada AG Asks Court to Ban Meta from Providing End-to-End Encryption to Minors

2024/02/24
BREAKING: US State of Nevada attempting to BAN End-to-End Encryption for Teenagers, Kids (and: implicitly MANDATE age-verification) due to ostensible dangers to children that somehow vanish on 18th birthday

2024/02/23
“Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said Thursday that adults shouldn’t have to share their personal information to access pornography online” | wow…

2024/02/23
The Fundamental Problems with Social Media Age-Verification Legislation – R Street Institute

2024/02/22
Shoshana Weissmann: Carding People for Joining Social Media Solves Nothing

2024/02/15
Age Verification: “New Jersey […] requiring social media companies to contract with third-party data vendors to perform invasive age and identity verification”

2023/12/22
UK porn watchers could have faces scanned – BBC News | how to teach a generation of young Britons to use dodgy VPNs

2023/12/05
New Zealand smoking ban: Health experts criticise new government’s shock reversal | I was not aware that NZ had dropped the rolling smoking ban. The UK currently persists.

2023/11/29
Stuff To Read: Google Decides To Pull Up The Ladder On The Open Internet, Pushes For Unconstitutional Regulatory Proposals | interesting take from @mmasnick suggesting that Google has caved (?) to age-estimation / child-protection interests in order to shore-up monopoly interest, rather than from fear

2023/10/26
NEW: “LockAndCode” Podcast on #AgeVerification by @Malwarebytes, featuring @AlecMuffett: “Identity crisis: How an anti-porn crusade could jam the Internet”

2023/05/22