Madrid unveils a digital wallet to help porn platforms verify users’ ages.
And the digital wallet service provider is breached in 3…2…1…
No.
Mandate that OS vendors for computing devices (desktops, mobile phones, consoles, etc.) must provide parental controls and instructions on how to set them up.
Then legislate in 2 years time, any parents found that they have not implemented the parental controls are liable for parental negligence charges.
It’s on the parents to regulate what their kids watch and it’s on the tech companies to provide them with the tools.
There you are, I’ve fixed the “what about the innocent children’s minds?” issue without causing a privacy problem.
You’re welcome.
Edit: spelling & TLDR; Sorry for the lil’rant, don’t intend this as an attack or to be so long, thoughts just flowed :/ don’t read if ya don’t wanna
Mandated parental controlls options would be pretty amazing, and relatively easy to implement. Honestly i’d love it. But requiring parents to use them? How do you prove that without another privacy nightmare? Parental control’s effectiveness depends a lot usage, a few slips an it’s for naught. Plus how would the regulators know what devices the children use? Or if they use/have them at all? Or if parents pay attention to parental controls - if its not just a cardboard vault?
I think the problem is legislators know this and ‘terroists’ are probably the easiest kinda legitimate attack they have on online privacy. That or they’re so tech ignorant they’re automatically applying how they’d usually restrict stuff like alcohol/drugs, so regulate the seller/vendor/whatever — not thinking of any more nuanced approacea.
Ultimately its probably best left as a ‘educate people, hope for the best’ thing. Added to some help from - like you said - mandating parental control implimentation, tightened child neglect/abuse regulation or damn education/schools needs a ton of work too. Maybe make website blocking easier for less tech literate on home networks too. Parent’s responsibility but make forfilling that responsibility as easy as possible.
I imagine it might be possible for a parent in the UK to be sued for that already. If that parent breached their duty of care by psycological harm to they child? Maybe you could claim for negligence? I doubt anyone’s tried, tbh it’s a bit of a stretch and I don’t know the law that well …plus it’d be a right expensive, long process not to mention only a civil case so no criminal consiquences. Unless it’s some rich guy’s Fuck you case or it’s an extreme case borderlining child abuse, not likely.
Sorry again for the wall of text😅thanks
So porn hub will pull out?
I don’t though
For now they’re only forcing it on websites hosted in spain (they exist???). They say they have plans to talk with ireland, which would include most of Big Tech, but I’m hopeful that this is just virtue signalling, which would be par for the course.