{"id":47332,"date":"2023-03-01T21:07:46","date_gmt":"2023-03-01T21:07:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2023\/03\/01\/even-after-its-own-data-protection-agency-said-theres-no-safe-way-to-do-age-verification-france-wants-to-do-age-verification-for-the-internet\/"},"modified":"2023-03-01T21:09:13","modified_gmt":"2023-03-01T21:09:13","slug":"even-after-its-own-data-protection-agency-said-theres-no-safe-way-to-do-age-verification-france-wants-to-do-age-verification-for-the-internet","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mailinvest.blog\/index.php\/2023\/03\/01\/even-after-its-own-data-protection-agency-said-theres-no-safe-way-to-do-age-verification-france-wants-to-do-age-verification-for-the-internet\/","title":{"rendered":"Even After Its Own Data Protection Agency Said There\u2019s No Safe Way To Do Age Verification, France Wants To Do Age Verification For The Internet"},"content":{"rendered":"

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from the verify-this<\/i> dept<\/h3>\n

It\u2019s turn into the in<\/em> factor to do in all places, lately: attempt to institute age verification for the web. There\u2019s been an ongoing, unsubstantiated, moral panic<\/a> that the web is in some way \u201charmful\u201d for youngsters, at the same time as a lot of the proof suggests\u2026 it\u2019s really mostly good for kids<\/a> and the proof has supported that for years<\/a>. <\/p>\n

And, for no matter motive, the terrified, panicked, political class has determined that the reply to all of this should be to\u2026 age confirm everybody on the web, and put the burden on web sites to maintain out \u201cchildren.\u201d After all, as we\u2019ve defined, age verification is a horrible concept that doesn’t make anybody safer, and may really serve to make children quite a bit much less secure. This has additionally been identified for years, and that\u2019s even in its weaker type, reminiscent of within the US have been COPPA (the Kids\u2019s On-line Privateness Safety Act) appears to have a facet impact of teaching kids that lying is good<\/a>, as a result of it signifies that\u2019s how they will get onto providers the place they will talk with grandma.<\/p>\n

After all, defenders of those new legal guidelines will say, however that is totally different, as a result of now we\u2019re speaking about precise age verification<\/em>, quite than what now we have as we speak, which is extra of a \u201cself-certification\u201d scenario. Besides, age verification expertise is horrible, an enormous privateness nightmare, and never confirmed to work significantly effectively. We\u2019ve mentioned how the largest age verification provider<\/a> is\u2026 Pornhub\u2019s dad or mum firm. But in addition how different age verification suppliers reached out to me to inform me to not fear about age verification expertise, as a result of all they\u2019d have to do is to scan everyone\u2019s face to visit websites<\/a> (and never simply photographs, they\u2019d must do video to be sure to weren\u2019t simply holding up a photograph).<\/p>\n

At a time when persons are (far more fairly!) involved about privateness, demanding that each web site scan everybody\u2019s faces and retailer that data doesn’t appear to be a transfer in the proper course<\/em>.<\/p>\n

However, don\u2019t take my phrase for it. Why not take the phrase of the French information safety company, CNIL, maybe probably the most strict information safety company within the EU (to a fault, I\u2019d say). Even they stated that there is no such thing as a potential approach to do age verification that’s dependable, and that every possible solution violates user privacy rights<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Provided that, it\u2019s kinda stunning to see that France goes to maneuver forward with its own age verification plans for the internet<\/a>. <\/p>\n

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On Wednesday, French MPs\u00a0adopted legislation<\/a>\u00a0requiring\u00a0<\/strong>social media platforms reminiscent of Instagram, TikTok and Snap to dam entry to minors below 15 \u2014 except they’ve authorization from their mother and father \u2014 or face fines of as much as 1 p.c of their annual world turnover. Technical options to confirm customers\u2019 ages would have to be rubber-stamped by the audiovisual and privateness regulators \u2014\u00a0Arcom and CNIL \u2014 and Arcom could be empowered to sue non-compliant firms.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

That is an extension of an earlier legislation that required grownup content material web sites to confirm ages. However for years, these websites have (appropriately) identified that there’s actually no approach to adjust to the legislation. Reasonably than repair that, French officers merely expanded the legislation to social media firms.<\/p>\n

I stay up for the day just a few a long time from now once we can look again on this nonsense ethical panic and snigger, the identical method we now snigger at earlier ethical panics, together with these about how chess, novels, the waltz, radio, tv, pinball, comedian books, jazz, rock n\u2019 roll, motion pictures, dungeons and dragons, and far far more have been polluting the minds of youngsters and needed to be stopped\u2026<\/p>\n

\nFiled Beneath: age verification<\/a>, cnil<\/a>, france<\/a>, privacy<\/a>, social media<\/a>
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