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Stop Killing The Internet: No Digital ID & No Age Verification | European Citizens' Initiative (citizens-initiative.europa.eu)

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[–] pglpm@lemmy.ca 13 points 13 hours ago* (last edited 13 hours ago) (2 children)

This initiative is just a smokescreen; it actually pushes things down the slippery slope.

Citizens must not be forced to identify themselves to access lawful online content or services unless strictly necessary, proportionate and provided by law. The legislation should require anonymous or pseudonymous proof-of-age, data minimisation, selective disclosure

Define "necessary". Define "by law". The pushers for proof-of-age already say it's anonymous – but it can't be.

[–] hneerqe@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

While good intended these actions just further validate their ideas, by showing anything other than an uncompromising "No".

[–] Lemmchen@feddit.org 3 points 10 hours ago (1 children)

but it can’t be

Not true. You can absolutely implement a boolean true/false function on an ID card. German IDs already have that. All you need is a compatible reader (future versions will work over NFC afaik).

[–] asdfasdfasdf@lemmy.world 1 points 2 hours ago

How do you trust that it isn't sending identifiable info to them too? Is the software open source and auditable? Is it legally enforced that every hardware uses the open source software?

I assume that it would need some kind of asymmetric encryption signature on the boolean too, and make it change all the time like OTP? Otherwise I'd think it could be intercepted and forged, right?

And how would the reader work? Everyone needs to buy a reader to beep their ID to when they want to watch porn?