Bluesky sta lanciando la verifica dell’età nel Regno Unito
https://www.theverge.com/news/704468/bluesky-age-verification-uk-online-safety-act
di vriska1
Bluesky sta lanciando la verifica dell’età nel Regno Unito
https://www.theverge.com/news/704468/bluesky-age-verification-uk-online-safety-act
di vriska1
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> the platform says it will let users verify their age by scanning their face, uploading an ID, or entering a payment card.
> Bluesky will perform age verification through Kid Web Services (KWS), an Epic Games-owned tool that developers can use to implement age verification and parental controls on their platforms.
This same Epic Games that have had multiple data leaks?
Guess I’ll be binning my Bluesky account then.
Insane move that’s surely unneccessary. By any metric this would mean twitter would have to do the same and we all know that isn’t going to happen, so ?????????
Wanting to prove people are over 18? It’s almost like they don’t understand what their userbase enjoy.
Adding it to its platform in the UK.
Or, at least, to users that appear to be within the UK.
The real danger is if this becomes the norm across the west and so the big platforms decide to just turn it on everywhere, by default. Until then, I find myself spending a lot of time overseas.
So, for what its worth, I own / run quite a large adult content platform which is pretty large globally in its niche. We’re having to integrate this, and we’ve already integrated it for France, Germany, and sections of the US.
It’s a very badly thought out law with there not being really many reputable services out there to which you’d really want to submit such personal data, and having no real idea to which company its been sent to and how they intend to process it.
Because of the nature of our service, we are doing this internally, because its really the only way that we feel we can be absolutely accountable to our members regarding their personal data.
If anyone has any questions around the implementation of this from an adult content providers perspective, very happy to answer questions. But fundamentally, its a very scary law with very poor consideration for citizens data security / protection and the practicality of implementing it at scale.
Well I enjoyed Bluesky, but I’ll now be deleting my account.
This is going to be pretty much every site in the UK soon, Reddit will have some kind of age verification and so will Instagram etc. It’ll be common place in a few weeks.
That’s great. It’ll work really well because nobody is on bluesky.
So we only get a limited service unless we are willing to give up very sensitive personal information to a 3rd party we don’t get to choose or really want to have anything to do with, but no one in the rest of the world has to?
I get that its the law, but that doesn’t sound very fair.
Almost like this was poorly thought out nonsense from the get go.
The utter irony that we’re constantly told about cybersecurity all the time these days (in schools, workplaces, via the media, the government etc.) and yet the government itself is pushing through a law that expects citizens to give their personal cyber details to some random company in fuck-knows-where just to access websites.
We’ve all seen how often companies get hacked or have data breaches; who the hell is going to trust some random third party with their personal data when they could just be surfing anonymously in the past.