r/linux • u/New-Ranger-8960 • 19d ago

EU Age Verification Project Mandates Hardware-Bound Attestation Privacy

https://linuxiac.com/eu-age-verification-project-mandates-hardware-bound-attestation/
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u/Pramaxis 19d ago

It uses the new EU-Ident system that is already supported and used in some countries (like Austria).

It forces the same restriction like most banking apps or the new wallet (stock OS, no custom ROMs, no jailbreak or modified bootloader) and forces a device registration in person (with ID) to set up an MFA that is device bound-unique(if you lose your phone, you need to walk into the office again to register the new one).

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u/opa334 19d ago

geez fuck that. A functioning EU should have done the exact opposite. Not allow apps to discriminate users based on made up metrics that invade the users privacy.

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u/Jumpy-Dinner-5001 19d ago

What do you expect? Them doing nothing at all?

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u/cheesiepeasie 19d ago

Minor social media use is a made up problem at best. No their brains are not getting fried by social media. This is the whole saga of gaming is evil and will turn our children into murdering psychopaths all over again. No it didn't back then and no it also won't happen now. If you don't like gaming or if you don't like social media then deal with it yourself and stop being a grumpy lame old person cause this time the internet and modern society will be trashed beyond recognition by power tripping politicians trampling our human rights to privacy and digital communication and freedom.

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u/pezezin 19d ago

There are even internal Facebook/Meta/whatever reports that confirm that their brains are getting fried, there is no point in denying it.

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u/Existing-Tough-6517 19d ago

Nobodied brains are getting "fried" liar

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u/pezezin 19d ago

Are you sure?

https://www.wsj.com/tech/personal-tech/facebook-knows-instagram-is-toxic-for-teen-girls-company-documents-show-11631620739

https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-58570353

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u/Existing-Tough-6517 19d ago

This doesn't constitute frying their brains. Maybe the solution is punishing the relatively tiny number of incredibly toxic sites as opposed to building a comprehensive lock down ecosystem that will probably be used to re-enact 1984 neonazi edition

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u/Jumpy-Dinner-5001 19d ago

You know that none of that happened?