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schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de to Privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 days ago

Zero-Knowledge Proofs Aren’t Age Verification Silver Bullets

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Zero-Knowledge Proofs Aren’t Age Verification Silver Bullets

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schnurrito@discuss.tchncs.de to Privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com · 8 days ago
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Age verification (laws and regulations requiring platforms and websites to assure or estimate that a user seeking to use an online service is of a certain age) is everywhere. At the time of writing, about half the states in the US have some internet age verification law in place, and dangerous...
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    Luckily these kinds of measures are invariably poorly conceived and full of holes, so most of us will be able to bypass them.

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      Being able to bypass them or not is only half of the problem: so long as they are law, you can be “arbitrarily” persecuted and punished because of them.

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