I support it as well. In my country we already have ID verification that goes through banks. I can log into my healthcare system etc. by it.
Just branch out a service to social media sites that answers only one question:
Is this person over 18? Yes/No.
They don’t need anything else.
By extension, this also answers the question if someone is a real person. Which is another thing I think we need on social media. Yes, maintain public anonymity but there needs to be some verification that they are a real person.
It certainly can work in a country where the government doesn’t regularly use identification maliciously. The US for example does have a long history of spying and acting against their own citizenry and in that setting it is really hard to come up with a system where people aren’t being tracked by the requesting party or the age verification party for the government to spy on everyone.
I support it as well. In my country we already have ID verification that goes through banks. I can log into my healthcare system etc. by it.
Just branch out a service to social media sites that answers only one question: Is this person over 18? Yes/No.
They don’t need anything else. By extension, this also answers the question if someone is a real person. Which is another thing I think we need on social media. Yes, maintain public anonymity but there needs to be some verification that they are a real person.
(Also, Spokeo got nothing on me, wohoo)
It certainly can work in a country where the government doesn’t regularly use identification maliciously. The US for example does have a long history of spying and acting against their own citizenry and in that setting it is really hard to come up with a system where people aren’t being tracked by the requesting party or the age verification party for the government to spy on everyone.
Glad it works where you live.