There’s a strange irony at the heart of digital ID and age verification.
Governments say these systems are about safety. Yet the moment you ask people to hand over passports, driving licences, biometrics, or other sensitive data just to access normal parts of the internet, you create a huge privacy problem.
The real question is not “should children be protected?” Of course they should.
The question is: who gets to collect the proof, how much data do they keep, can you delete it, and what happens when the system is hacked, abused, or quietly expanded?
Child safety cannot become the excuse for building identity checkpoints across the open web.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKGoXX9Ddic
#Privacy #DigitalID #AgeVerification #GDPR #OnlineSafety #DigitalFreedom #SelfSovereignty #OpenWeb
Governments say these systems are about safety. Yet the moment you ask people to hand over passports, driving licences, biometrics, or other sensitive data just to access normal parts of the internet, you create a huge privacy problem.
The real question is not “should children be protected?” Of course they should.
The question is: who gets to collect the proof, how much data do they keep, can you delete it, and what happens when the system is hacked, abused, or quietly expanded?
Child safety cannot become the excuse for building identity checkpoints across the open web.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uKGoXX9Ddic
#Privacy #DigitalID #AgeVerification #GDPR #OnlineSafety #DigitalFreedom #SelfSovereignty #OpenWeb