But it is being implemented that way, and will hopefully remain that way if people who care keep paying attention. The article is pointing to the EU system currently being put together by a number of European countries.
The 'it can't be done' arguments are the worse. By spreading the idea that age verification can only be done by violating privacy means, we will end up with a system that violates privacy controlled by vested interests. Like the one already in place where you upload id. Politicians can easily sell out and will be cheered on as they entrench the system. But if that energy was spent pointing out the alternative, that we can do this in a privacy protecting way, then it can force politicians to legislate the right way. I'm looking forward to the EU system actually being rolled out, hopefully reaching their goal of remaining privacy protecting, so I can point to it and insist to my government that we can do better.
The 'it can't be done' arguments are the worse. By spreading the idea that age verification can only be done by violating privacy means, we will end up with a system that violates privacy controlled by vested interests. Like the one already in place where you upload id. Politicians can easily sell out and will be cheered on as they entrench the system. But if that energy was spent pointing out the alternative, that we can do this in a privacy protecting way, then it can force politicians to legislate the right way. I'm looking forward to the EU system actually being rolled out, hopefully reaching their goal of remaining privacy protecting, so I can point to it and insist to my government that we can do better.