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Age Verification is Now Mutating into General ID (www.freezenet.ca)
submitted 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago) by Gnergy@piefed.europe.pub to c/privacy@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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Surveillance creep is once again striking in the age verification debate. This is happening at the FCC this time.

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[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world -3 points 23 hours ago* (last edited 23 hours ago) (1 children)

I mean, I like the idea of a digital ID. It has potential for a lot of good. I don't like the idea of a digital ID being tied to your hardware. This implementation is bad.

[–] DahGangalang@infosec.pub 4 points 21 hours ago (1 children)

Can you enumerate what the potential good you see it bringing.

To be up front, I strongly disagree with you, but I want to be sure I don't just have straw man arguments in my mind.

[–] HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world -2 points 18 hours ago

Aw shit I had a decent comment typed up on my pc and then I changed my wife and my bike tires. It's all the way over there, 2/3 of the way finished but I got little legs and I'm tired.

Short version I'll try to get you more complete thoughts when I get up sometime next decade. But the short version is that laughably presuming that a malicious government wouldn't be abusing this, secure digital identity verification, when people want it (not being forced on someone) like digital docusign but author requiring notaries and bullshit like that, could actually be very beneficial in financial, legal, medical, a bunch of different industries where verifying identity quickly is important.

Actually, the long version didn't have much more than that, just more words.