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2026-06-27 00:04 UTC

@plantarum@ottawa.place @pluralistic@mamot.fr Of course not.This is pure FUD. Please provide documented evidence where ID & age verification would be left entirely up to dozens of individual companies separately & give a logical case for such an implementation.

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@matbury@mastodon.online 2026-06-27 00:06

@plantarum@ottawa.place @pluralistic@mamot.fr I'm talking about the EU, BTW. Not the USA, Canada, Australia, etc.. - I have no idea how they plan to implement it.

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@plantarum@ottawa.place 2026-06-27 00:40

@matbury@mastodon.online @pluralistic@mamot.fr did you read the linked article? It includes a link to another article by @pluralistic@mamot.fr : https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/14/bellovin/#wont-someone-think-of-the-cryptographers In that one he summarizes technical impossibilities in implementing privacy-respecting age verification, with links to the primary literature on the topic. In that case it is the method proposed for the UK specifically, but the underlying issues seem general. (you will have to skip a fair way down to get to that info) As I understand it the issue isn't so much that the process will be given over to multiple private companies to manage, but rather that the technical requirements to verify age can't be realized without *someone* developing & maintaining infrastructure that can't be guaranteed not to leak private information.

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