• ipkpjersi@lemmy.ml
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    4 hours ago

    That being said, I’m a huge privacy advocate, and while there are actually ways to anonymously be on a website and verify age

    How would that work? I’m not well-researched on this particular topic, so I’m curious how that should work.

    • magic_smoke@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      13 minutes ago

      Key signing maybe?

      You get a cert which is cryptographically signed by your government. They can prove its signed with the governments root cert, showing that its someone over 18, but not who.

      That being said the key identifiers will probably still be attached to you in some government db, just not on the porn site.

      Though the government could force the pornsite to hand over any logged ids. Some people would say that’s private, as they trust the government not to do stuff without a judges warrant.

      As a trans woman relying on HIPPA to not be put on a list of those on HRT, lmao yeah fucking right. The christian taliban will connect the dots the first chance they get.

    • Echo Dot@feddit.uk
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      3 hours ago

      I don’t think I’ve ever seen a single suggestion of a way to implement age verification that isn’t a privacy nightmare. Oftentimes they literally just want a credit card number, the assumption being that a child would never be able to get hold of such a thing.

      In some of the worst cases they actually want a passport or other government ID sending to some organisation that would verify you. With all the fun potential data breaches that that would ensue.

      Most of the time these rules never get off the ground because privacy advocacy groups basically sue over it and win every time.