There are a lot of GOP-controller legislatures in the USA pushing through so-called “child protection” laws, but there’s a toll in the form of impacting people’s rights and data privacy. Most of these bills involve requiring adults to upload a copy of their photo ID.

  • AtHeartEngineer@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    There technically is, but it’s going to be a while until the government is ok with it. It’s called zero knowledge cryptography, where a user could prove they have an identification that is government issued, and that they are of age, without revealing any other information.

    • darth_helmet@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      1 year ago

      There’s a vanishingly small chance that the government wouldn’t fuck that up. Here is what would happen:

      • bill gets signed
      • no bid contract is assigned to a technology firm with a history of incompetence at everything other than lobbying for billions of dollars
      • 3-letter agencies secretly inject back door stipulations into the system so that they can keep spying on everyone
      • years late and at double the budget, it releases
      • two months later, someone shows off the secret backdoor keys at DEFCON, along with instructions on how to dump the access database
      • years of extortion material for spy agencies and organized crime around the world
      • zero children protected: they learn an ancient technology called “torrenting”
      • new calls for even more draconian control of information to save the children from sexy terrorists