EmbarrassedHelp

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by EmbarrassedHelp 5mo ago
Why the hell would they care who is buying it? They're getting paid either way. The only reason they'd care is because they want to sell your personal information.
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by EmbarrassedHelp 5mo ago
But none of those options are requirements to access the service.
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by EmbarrassedHelp 5mo ago
And now you have people like New Mexico Attorney General Raúl Torrez trying to ban Meta and other platforms from using encryption in the first place.
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by EmbarrassedHelp 5mo ago
You should also write the Cabinet Ministers, including the heritage minister Marc Miller.
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by EmbarrassedHelp 5mo ago
There is no such thing as privacy protecting or anonymous age verification. If you tell Canadian that such a thing is possible, they are guaranteed to harm privacy with any legislation they proposal. Just tell them no.
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by EmbarrassedHelp 5mo ago
> “to our knowledge, no comparable jurisdiction in the Western world has adopted lawful access provisions of this breadth.” This legislation is extremely bad and needs to be stopped.
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Lawful-access bill could threaten encryption, Canadian Chamber of Commerce warns(theglobeandmail.com)
3 points by EmbarrassedHelp 5mo ago|1 comments
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by EmbarrassedHelp 5mo ago
I was talking about adult content, which does not appear to be plagued by the same recommendation algorithm feedback loop that social media companies are using. Sex and sexual content interacts with the brain differently then addictive shor
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by EmbarrassedHelp 5mo ago
Every major adult content site has warnings that you have to be over 18 when you enter the site. Its extremely easy to use parental controls to block these sites for a kid, and parental controls don't require violating user privacy.
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by EmbarrassedHelp 5mo ago
There is actually extremely little evidence for anything when comes to individuals, sexual content, and their sexual fantasies. There is even less evidence available for anything when it comes to minors. I've read papers on the topic,
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by EmbarrassedHelp 5mo ago
> would gladly support the shutting down of the whole internet if it would save the life of a single precious child. We should sedate everyone and lock them in secure concrete cells, with food and water provided through tubes. My proposa
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by EmbarrassedHelp 5mo ago
It really is insane that some people don't realize how biometrics are just as bad as every other option.
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by EmbarrassedHelp 5mo ago
The anti-tampering measures require banning rooting/jailbreaking, banning the installation of non-Google/Apple approved operating systems (ex: GrapheneOS), and require that you install Google Play Services/IOS equivalent. The
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by EmbarrassedHelp 5mo ago
> Age verification can be achieved without destroying anonymity and privacy online Yeah its extremely simple. You provide a simple message asking the user if they are an adult, and they either click "yes" or "no". Tha
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by EmbarrassedHelp 5mo ago
The EU app still requires that you let them violate your privacy in exchange for a batch of about 30 easily trackable tokens that expire after 3 months. It also bans rooting/jailbreaking, bans third party operating systems like Graphen
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by EmbarrassedHelp 5mo ago
Age verification companies literally require your personal information to function. They don't want you to be able to send them a simple boolean over Tor in exchange for whatever trackable token you need to access something.
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by EmbarrassedHelp 5mo ago
Any "verification" means unacceptable privacy violations. The best route is better parental controls, that are not enabled by default. Locking down the OS like ransomware until the user submits to age verification is the wrong app
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by EmbarrassedHelp 5mo ago
It will spread to everywhere else if we allow it for social media. In Australia for example, mandatory age verification has already spread to video games.
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by EmbarrassedHelp 5mo ago
The EU's proposed design still has a ton of issues.
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by EmbarrassedHelp 5mo ago
Outside of better parental controls and restricting accounts based on self declared age, there isn't a way to perform age verification anonymously or privately.
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by EmbarrassedHelp 5mo ago
Age verification isn't free. If you sell age verification services then you can get obscenely rich off the government forcing people to use services like yours. Sam Altman owns an identity verification company for example.
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Canada's Liberal party adopts motion to restrict kids from social media(toronto.citynews.ca)
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by EmbarrassedHelp 6mo ago
In terms of censorship, it is impossible to confirm that every hash in the database is what the database owner claims it to be. Its also completely unacceptable for encrypted/private messages, according to some of the top experts on th
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by EmbarrassedHelp 6mo ago
There are attempts make it almost mandatory through mandatory age verification. Which would mean that you'd have to submit to privacy violations or be cut off from a sizeable portion of the internet.
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by EmbarrassedHelp 6mo ago
That just puts the power to allow/ban rooting and operating systems in the hands of a different set of companies. Its still unacceptable.
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by EmbarrassedHelp 6mo ago
They are also trying to shoehorn in age verification with it.
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by EmbarrassedHelp 6mo ago
Why not explicitly forbid the German version of the eDIAS from being used for things like age verification then? That'd solve a ton of privacy issues with the implementation.
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by EmbarrassedHelp 6mo ago
The German version of the eDIAS app should be completely banned from being used for age verification, if they wish to continue the project. Otherwise it effectively bans you from a sizeable portion of the internet, unless you accept unaccep
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by EmbarrassedHelp 6mo ago
In the UK, Apple recently restricted web browsers, private messaging, and other stuff on IOS devices unless you let them violate your privacy with age verification. They weren't required to do this by law in the UK, yet they did it any
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by EmbarrassedHelp 6mo ago
Basically the EU had voluntary scanning, but that wasn't enough for "child safety" idiots who wanted to spy on everyone, all the time. They got greedy and tried to go full authoritarian by targeting encrypted messaging. The r

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