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Welcome to the age verification era! 🔞 🔍
Here's why you should be concerned
❌ Risks your privacy & security
❌ Threatens anonymity & freedom of speech
❌ It's often ineffective
We explore in today's article 👉 https://tuta.com/blog/age-verification-kills-anonymity
@Tutanota if Tuta leaks/gift my age verification to government then I close the account.
Very simple. I chosen it for privacy, not for aesthetic.
@Tutanota I'm not a fan of this at all, but I hope it will damage the porn industry as well. If you need to watch porn, then you have a bigger problem in life than privacy issue.
@Tutanota Does age verification really have to rely on face scans, document uploads, or other invasive methods? 🔍 Isn't there a way to do it that respects user privacy? 🛡️
I have an idea that - while it would need some adjustments - seems reasonable to me, especially when we're talking about such a sensitive topic. In my country, Poland, ID cards have an NFC chip 📲 that contains encrypted data, including the date of birth. Access to this data requires a PIN 🔐 that is set at the government office.
Wouldn't it be possible to create an app that reads this data from the ID when first launched, and then requires the PIN each time to decrypt the date of birth? The app could communicate with the browser locally and simply send a yes or no answer ✅❌ about whether the user meets the required age - without revealing any personal data.
Of course I know not every country has such ID cards, but if they truly care about protecting children 👶, they should first make sure to create proper, secure solutions - ones that respect human rights 🧭 and don't violate citizens' privacy.
That's my opinion - but I'm open to other perspectives if there's something wrong with this approach 💬
#Privacy #Freedom #AgeVerification #OnlineSafetyAct #Surveillance #HumanRights
@Tutanota and it's just the beginning. In Switzerland we vote in 2 weeks for the implementation of E-ID...
@Tutanota no body trust anybody anymore, so lets say they are one percent protecting also tuta protecting by removing tracker and encryption. I hope its a start for global war against cybercriminals , ads , privacy invaders , spyware, phishing...etc . Its everybody war starting from the individual to the government
Let's pick on the UK for a moment. 👀
> "If you have a visitor, user, or customer from the UK, that means you're subject to UK laws!"
No.
If I walked into a tea shop in Taiwan, Japan, or South Korea and demanded they serve me English tea — claiming it was my right as a UK citizen — they’d correctly point out that I’m not in the UK.
Now, if that same tea shop started selling digital photos of teacups (PNG or JPEG files), and I visited their website and bought one, the shop — and its owner — does not suddenly become a UK citizen or fall under UK jurisdiction. Your demand for "a photo of English tea" is nonsense. You chose to visit their site and chose to make a digital purchase. That doesn’t make them answerable to your home country's laws.
Yes, the UK may pass laws claiming they govern the world — but they don’t. No country does. China, Russia, and others also pass laws asserting global jurisdiction, and we laugh. When the UK does the same, you should laugh too.
No one on the Fediverse — running a Fedi site or any other website — who is outside the UK, not hosted in the UK, and not using a UK domain name, needs to worry about UK laws.
You are not required to comply with their nonsense. That means you don’t have to verify every visitor to your “tea shop” (website), and you don’t have to block the doorway either.
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