Nuovo portafoglio digitale da testare entro pochi mesi per limitare l’accesso ai social media in Irlanda ai minori di 16 anni
https://www.irishtimes.com/politics/2025/12/06/new-digital-wallet-to-be-tested-within-months-to-restrict-social-media-access-in-ireland-for-under-16s/
di EchoedMinds
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Would someone please think of the children while we rollout mass surveillance systems
Nothing like a bit of government overreach in the morning. Will have ID checks on adult sites soon after this shite gets implemented and then we will need a digital ID like the UK are rail roading through soon after as we can’t not follow whatever shite the UK does despite it’s obvious flaws and issues.
Consultants are rubbing their hands. Another 500 million for brainstorming.
A good day for identity theft enthusiasts
“Mr Martin said “outright bans” for children on social media “need to be examined in considerable detail”.
He said his experience as a teacher showed him it was better to develop “self confidence and resilience” among young people.”
So what’s he going to do to actually start developing self confidence and resilience among young people?
You know, if the idea is it just works in with your MyGov details, then that sounds a lot better than the shite system the Brits seemed to come up with. If the idea is you can use your MyGov account to get some sort of authenticator code, which only gives websites a “This person is verified as being over 18” message, it avoids a lot of the issue of dodgy websites stealing data.
The thing of handing over passports and photos to dodgy sites is horrific.
In a world where palantir exists this is a terrible idea.
Will be interesting to see how the Australian implementation goes, but overall, details aside but the general trust of this is good.
There is a growing mountain of peer reviewed evidence that shows this content is harming children. We either ignore that, and continue on, or we do something about it.
Wait a minute, they won’t pass the OTB with services because that will annoy US companies, but they will rollout invasive mass surveillance on their own population, *despite* how it will annoy US companies.
as a teacher i support restricting social media access for under-16s but this is literally mass surveillance masquerading as child protection.
If they actually cared about children, they would be working to eliminate child poverty and homelessness.
It better include Reddit. I would say reddit is one of the more dangerous one’s
Very worrying when 15 year olds ask questions on ask ireland. Hate seeing the under 18’s on here.
There are many threads they can find such as incel culture
I can’t see how this will work.
OTOH it will do wonders for the Irish tech industry. Teenagers will learn all about hacking, about VPNs, about open source software, about using their computer as a computer, not just an app store. in 10-20 yrs there’ll be a gneeration of skilled tech people here.
Apple has just instigated an age verification/ID system in the US.
You basically verify who you are and your DOB with their systems and any company can verify you from that.
They’ve also got state drivers licences and passports and TSA ID in the wallet app too.
Having another app where all this detail is stored seems unnecessary since the technology is already tried and tested (& secure).
But integrating it with MyGovID is cleaver. Especially if it’s tied to a token or passcode system.
Former programmer now engineering manager here chiming in. It doesn’t have to be a big problem from a security standpoint more than just mygovid or any of the other gov websites already. It would just be an endpoint for a website to query to say yes or no to the question and could give a token to differentiate the request. I’m not super worried about the process itself but I think knowing what websites people access and being able to tie that to the person is the part that we should be worried about not the security of it as much.
Back in my day a childs internet safety was the parent’s responsibility but modern lazy parenting wins again and we’ll all get punished for it
If y’all are unhappy about this, please start flooding your TD’s inboxes and make phone calls.
It’s not the average citizen’s fault that people don’t know how to parent, the solution shouldn’t be everyone being treated like children. 🤦♀️🤦♀️🤦♀️
This is not only against our basic human right to privacy, but also a huge security risk. Fraud cases will increase exponentially and along with that so will the price of our already bonkers insurances and don’t even let me start with the headache of having to prove you didn’t purchase/signed whatever product/service, censorships, etc.
Okay had a read through of the article, barely any mention of the British age restriction law, but it reads very very similar to it, so what’s the difference?
Also in my eyes it’s just dangerous and hazardous to the internet, yes I do agree that we should limit access to social media to children and teens but for under sixteens? seriously? these people are near adults surely you can trust them with a bit of common sense.
Alongside this how loose or tight is the definition of social media? is Reddit a social media? Is YouTube? what about Wikipedia? The exact same path was taken by the British so?
The could do this more simply and say it’s not allowed and violators will be fined and or have devices confiscated. This would be enough that 90% of parents can just say no to their kids (like they already want to) without peer pressure being an issue. There is no need for fancy wallets or id systems, just treat it like any other law.
Verification without passing over any personal information to social media service providers is very doable.
1. Being completely anonymous is bad
2. Being tracked is bad
Go figure.
_Restrict_ access? They’re not pushing for restricted access by people in their mid teens, they’re pushing for a blanket ban!
So porn sticks and dodgy dodgy boxes are the next big thing