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SNCA:Age verification
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Age verification is a form of datamining in which a person's name and date of birth are obtained by software with the stated purpose of verifying that the user is an adult. Initially introduced with the noble purpose of making sure children don't goon🗝️, it has been transformed into a method of destroying online anonymity.
History
Early on, porn and gambling sites would just ask you if you were 18, but anyone could lie.
In the early 2020s, the United Kingdom, France, and some U.S. states passed laws requiring age verification for pornographic sites. While this is ostensibly a good thing in its raw form and was well-received by some anti-gooning advocates, most people knew that this wouldn't stop at porn. Sure enough, before long, proposals for age verification at the OS level were introduced, with Windows and Systemd experimenting with methods to do so.
Methods
Honor system
The user is asked if they are 18.
Parental controls
Parents apply restrictions to ensure that their children do not access inappropriate content. This is the ideal method, but unfortunately most parents either don't care what their kid does, don't know how to set up filters, or are actively raising their child in a "sex-positive" way.
Legal ID
The user presents a legal ID containing their name, image, and date of birth (usually a driver's license) which the site verifies. This compromises the user's identity and essentially makes anonymity impossible.
Credit card
The user gives the site their credit card information, since credit card companies almost never issue cards to minors.
Grandfather clause
Accounts that are old enough are automatically assumed to belong to adults.
Security and Privacy Concerns
Obviously, users who present their ID for verification are not anonymous, meaning the site or the CIA can track them. Also, in the event of a data breach, any information given for age verification becomes leaked, effectively doxing all users.
Age Verification on the Soysphere
No Soysphere sites have suggested any plans to implement age verification. It is unknown whether Quote would comply with a legal obligation to do so.
