Spanish government is working in a digital certificate to identify adults and avoid minors to access porn sites
Verificación de edad sin nombres ni apellidos: así se impedirá que los menores vean porno
Age verification without name and surname: this is the way to avoid minors to watch porn.
I know the EU is still kicking around the concept of making itself a root CA and each country an intermediate in that chain, then legally mandating the installation of that CA on all devices. This is dangerous as hell as it effectively defeats the purpose of TLS and gives the government(s) a way to decrypt all HTTPS traffic using those bogus cert chains.
So the govt will know who and when watches porn. lol
They’ll know which adults visit porn sites without a VPN anyway.
Kids are and will be significantly more creative.
When you phrase it that way, it becomes all the more obvious that it's not really about the porn.
You either can tell that the same certificate was used 1000000 times in one day which means they are being tracked or you don't track it and one leaked cert can be used by all the minors in Spain. So it's either useless of bad for privacy.
It is the parents job to watch their damn kids. Or force isps to include simple blocklist toggles in their supplied routers so the parents can make a decision.
Looks like another govt relying on majority that has no idea about how internet works. It won't stop kids, but pr0n sites and their partners will certainly get richer.
The whole age verification can be done privately, secure and without the possibility to get tracked. But imho still not really a good thing to do. Parenting should still be a thing.
Same discussion can be found here https://lemmy.ml/comment/6775132
Thank you for the links to Wikipedia and identity.com on that other thread. I've yet to wrap my head around how zero-knowledge proof could work for such a basic assertion as "user is of legal age", which calls for a 0 or 1 answer. It seems very different from the examples given of polynomial computations to prove knowledge of an exponent in a complex math expression. I can't see what could prevent any client to simply lie about the answer here.
But that refers to personal data, and I suppose the state will be able to identify you and your habits if it gets the logs from the websites.
I wonder if the websites will get a unique identifier, that would allow them to track you so accurately it would make google horny.
We already have digital certificates to identify ourselves on government websites to access services.
Most likely the implementation will require sites to demand the cert for verification. What happens after that is the privacy creep
Just put the porn on the government websites. Problem solved.
This is exactly what will not happen. They clearly talking about different certificate. Read the article.
I can’t because I refuse their cookies and then it’s subscription
It's called Parental Control software.
I would say it is Government Parental Control, the government is your parent 😆
Expect parents to be minimally responsible? No way!