The European Commission preliminarily found Pornhub, Stripchat, XNXX and XVideos in breach of the Digital Services Act (DSA) for failing to protect minors from being exposed to pornographic content on their services.
The European Commission preliminarily found Pornhub, Stripchat, XNXX and XVideos in breach of the Digital Services Act (DSA) for failing to protect minors from being exposed to pornographic content on their services.
That already tells the government that I’m accessing porn because why else would I need to confirm I’m an adult online? And why would they implement it in a somewhat private manner if it could be implemented in a privacy-infringing manner?
I honestly don’t think most democratic governments have an interest in making this privacy-infringing. Lobbyists/companies on the other hand… But all the more reason to write legislation that ensures age verification must be handled like this.
Cinema rickets for FSK18 movie? Ordering alcohol? Gambling? Renting a car?
Basically anything you’re only allowed to do as an adult.
But that’s kind of why I mentioned, it’s just one rough draft for such a protocol.
None of the things you mentioned would incur an age check here because car rental companies demand your driver’s license anyway, nobody cares about movie ages, and for alcohol you have to be ID’d in person upon delivery.
You would also think democratic governments have no incentive to legislate something like chat control, but there’s always factions that want to control people, including here in the EU.
The ruling classes are scared of what the peasants might get up to when inequality gets too bad or policies too unpopular. Just because it’s less bad here than some other places doesn’t mean people aren’t feeling the effects of it. The people at Brussels must be glad that Estonians don’t have guns and can’t afford two tanks of diesel anyway, because otherwise I reckon there would be a lot of people shooting up the place over energy prices and whatever. Age checks aren’t of much help here, but it adds extra reliability to any browser fingerprint to real identity lookups. Though if you use government services or banks at all, that’s already more or less a done deal.