EU to launch age-check app as pressure builds on Big Tech

*Because surveillance capitalism has consumed our governments and is writing regulations that expand their data collection capabilities... under the guise of "protecting kids", "fighting crime", or "terrorism".

Their approach has not changed in decades, yet the majority continually fall for it, over and over again.

Epstein didn't hill himself, and his closest friends were oligarchs, including European royalty and the US president.

I'm sorry you seem to have misunderstood a "think of the children" gambit for an intention to *actually* protect children.

This is just authoritarian people tracking pretending to be about kids, child safety has nothing to do with it.

Have a look behind the curtain as to who is pushing this

If the government wants to know they can just ask your Bank. Besides, Sony itself is probably the greatest potential risk to exposing your data here anyway since they already have your banking data most likely and are known to have leaks. The German government really is my smallest concern in that whole process of buying something on Sony's store.

Ah I see, it's kinda like an external login where only specified data is shared (age in this case). The 3rd party would know nothing else, but the government would know that you asked for that check from that service...

Not as bad as corps having the data directly, but not perfect....

They are probably talking about the AusweisApp. Which I have used precisely once for the novelty of it. In fact, I forgot it existed until just now.

I don‘t know the name but from the user side it works like a payment system that pops up, asks for some digits on your ID and then gives the thumbs up for you to proceed. The store or website doesn‘t see any of this, just that you are approved by the service. The Playstation Store uses it and it‘s honestly really neat. Sadly almost no one else does. Steam even removed thousands of games rather than implementing this simple feature. I bet they don‘t even know about it given that they don‘t have a German branch to deal with this type of stuff, hence removing everything that could potentially cause extra work with German authorities.

What is this system? I'm unfamiliar.

I hate everything about this. The internet continues to become a crappier place because the parents have zero care what their children do online.

Germany already has a method that works pretty well and keeps your identity and exact birthday secret from third parties. Problem is nobody implements it because tech companies would rather have all your data. Maybe this time it will be different but knowing the EU they will probably try something funny with this thing.

I have to VPN into Europe a lot, because if I’m exiting out of somewhere, I’d like it to be somewhere with good privacy laws.

I hope this doesn’t fuck that up for the many others who do this.

Is it a joke? Like you will need a fucking app, and verify it with your id to use social media? I'm 100% against it, its privacy hell

Bit late, but that's amazing news!