+++ Under the guise of child protection: EU plans digital identity enforcement +++
The European Commission has introduced an age verification app, supposedly to protect children online. However, criticism is mounting: this creates the technical foundation for far-reaching digital identity checks – well beyond its original purpose. Under the pretext of child protection, a system risks emerging that effectively forces users to disclose their identity in order to access online services.
Experience shows that what starts as “voluntary” quickly becomes the norm. Protecting children is fundamental, but must not be used as a pretext to undermine anonymous internet use. Clear limits are needed: no indirect real-name requirements, no gradual expansion of identification obligations, and no centralization of powers at the EU level. A free internet requires data protection, proportionality, and real choice – not infrastructure for control.
https://t.me/christineanderson/1340
The European Commission has introduced an age verification app, supposedly to protect children online. However, criticism is mounting: this creates the technical foundation for far-reaching digital identity checks – well beyond its original purpose. Under the pretext of child protection, a system risks emerging that effectively forces users to disclose their identity in order to access online services.
Experience shows that what starts as “voluntary” quickly becomes the norm. Protecting children is fundamental, but must not be used as a pretext to undermine anonymous internet use. Clear limits are needed: no indirect real-name requirements, no gradual expansion of identification obligations, and no centralization of powers at the EU level. A free internet requires data protection, proportionality, and real choice – not infrastructure for control.
https://t.me/christineanderson/1340
@Incal If limits are required, then the solution is bad from the start and must be discarded.
What will happen is that the limits will be discarded one after one, until the solution is back in its entire privacy invading glory.
Check ID, physical ID, in stores when people buy phones, and the problem is solved. Slap a fine on parents and others who sell phones to minors, just like with cigarettes and we have done what we can.
True.
