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The linked blog is a compost heap of age verification dogma, but that means that the comedy occasionally writes itself. What could possibly go wrong with the new New York age verification mandate? Circumvention also gets addressed, in that acceptable age assurance tech must demonstrate “a rate...
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Must-Watch Video from NO2ID
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Threats to online anonymity harm everyone, but one group is often overlooked: journalists and the sources who talk to them. Age verification requirements will help the Trump administration carry out its vendetta against the press by creating new avenues to identify journalists’ confidential...
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Start arresting the teens and then see what happens: Australia to double penalty for social media ban breaches to $99m as tech giants accused of ‘not doing enough’ | Social media ban | The Guardian...
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“I don’t really understand how to regulate VPNs, because it became clear to everyone fairly quickly that this is an extremely complex system and that banning or switching off VPNs is simply impossible” [he said] “If you try to shut everything down, the entire vast internet system could simply be...
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OMG. Ofcom will have to deliver acceptable / target “failure” metrics for AV & social media blocks. Maybe even false positives & false negatives. This is an epic read even though it comes from a pro-AV and somewhat slanted website. [popcorn intensifies]...
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This has always been the deal proposed by the grifters to the government of the day: *UK positions digital standards as strategic infrastructure through 2030* https://www.biometricupdate.com/202606/uk-positions-digital-standards-as-strategic-infrastructure-through-2030 …and on the SAME...
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The truth is not as clear cut as you have seen, is probably wrong (especially in real-world practise) and for explanation I’d recommend you read the following paper by noted security expert & cryptographer, Professor Steve Bellovin: https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/papers/age-verify.pdf...
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“Wait, no, not like that…” — Andy Burrows, probably. Molly Russell: Head of online safety charity warns against social media ban – BBC News https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cgmdy9vg9jmo
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Signal will not compromise user privacy in order to satisfy the UK Government. They could withdraw from UK app-stores, but further: they could block any account with an associated “+44” phone number – me included. Such a “nuclear option” would beneficially put the burden of responsibility on...
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HT: a7ndrew