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Boosted by Charlie Stross @cstross@wandering.shop
@openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org · Mar 09, 2026
“When you create a law, you have to think about what a future government could do with those powers." Ministers would have unilateral powers to lock what they see as 'harmful' behind digital ID checks. This could end up being used on LGBTQ+ and reproductive health content. 🗣️ ORG's James Baker. https://www.politico.eu/article/uk-eyes-sweeping-powers-to-regulate-tech-without-parliamentary-scrutiny/ #onlinesafety #digitalid #privacy #freedomofexpression #ageverification #ukpolitics #ukpol
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@jim@social.openrightsgroup.org · Mar 09, 2026
What Internet policy generally amounts to is "here I have a hammer" so "everything is a nail". Such as #AgeVerification right now. "Finally! We can solve the problem!" While a systems analysis will tell you that AV leaves the problem (attention ad markets) entirely intacts.
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@siv@mastodon.praxis.red · Mar 07, 2026
#System76's Carl Richell laying out the realities of the new age verification laws in #Colorado and #California: https://blog.system76.com/post/system76-on-age-verification "Most System76 employees installed operating systems and created accounts on their computer when they were under 18. They did this out of curiosity. Many started writing software. Some were already writing operating systems. [...] Limiting a child’s ability to explore what they can do with a computer limits their future." #AgeVerification #PolicyFailures
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@fosserytech@social.linux.pizza · Mar 06, 2026
Seems like those boomers don't understand how the Linux community works #Linux #AgeVerification #AgeVerificationLaw #Meme #Memes #RoastingCalifornia #FosseryTech
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@knoppix95@mastodon.social · Mar 06, 2026
EU Chat Control drops mandatory encryption-breaking scans — huge privacy win after years of resistance! 🎉 But now pushes mandatory age verification across apps, risking anonymity while letting Big Tech "voluntarily" scan. Fight continues in trilogues. 🛡️ 🔗 https://tuta.com/blog/chat-control-criticism #TechNews #Privacy #Chat #Control #ChatControl #EU #Europe #Encryption #AgeVerification #Surveillance #DigitalRights #Resistance #Cybersecurity #Anonymity #BigTech
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@jonsnow@mastodon.online · Mar 06, 2026
Congress Is Considering Abolishing Your Right to Be Anonymous Online The bipartisan push to remove anonymity from the internet is ushering in an era of unprecedented mass surveillance and censorship. https://theintercept.com/2026/03/05/kosa-online-age-verification-free-speech-privacy/ #AgeVerification #IDverification #privacy #surveillance #censorship #dystopia #technology #USA
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@openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org · Mar 05, 2026
🚨 ID checks to get online could become the new norm 🚨 A new amendment would give the UK government sweeping powers to block access to lawful information and communications. That's unless we submit our identification to a bounty of providers. Tell your MP to stop this broad and repressive law ⬇️ https://action.openrightsgroup.org/no-id-checks-web-access #privacy #freedomofexpression #ageverification #digitalID #onlinesafety #ukpolitics #ukpol
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@elshara@www.mediacy.net · Mar 05, 2026
@Crell@phpc.social @timkmak@journa.host As bad as that sounds, I care more so about the #AgeVerification they're pushing down our throats. We got problems at home that need to be fixed. I thought a typical solution to their agenda would not be starting anymore #wars guess that's one more lie to add to the pile of them they've been racking up.
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In case people wanted a 2nd chance to object to a compulsory user account age recording + reporting law (the only people who objected in #California that I have found being only interested in 'gratis'
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@JdeBP@mastodonapp.uk · Mar 05, 2026
Another 2nd chance to tell legislators that the mechanisms that we have inherited from #Unix, and used in loads of #FreeSoftware operating systems from #NetBSD to #Tribblix, do not have date of birth/age fields for user accounts, is #Illinois, where HB5511 is the very same text as #California's, too. https://my.ilga.gov/Legislation/BillStatus?DocTypeID=HB&DocNum=5511&GAID=18&LegID=167486 It really does seem at this point that this is model legislation. Sponsors in Illionois are Jennifer Gong-Gershowitz, Margaret Croke, Janet Yang, Rohr, Kimberly Du Buclet, Natalie A. Manley, Angelica Guerrero-Cuellar, Rick Ryan, Michelle Mussman, Martha Deuter and Tracy Katz Muhl. The bill is in the judiciary–civil committee as of yesterday. It was introduced last month, 1 day after it was introduced in Colorado. I wonder in what other states it has just turned up. A lobby organization handing pre-drafted bills to multiple sets of legislators is not unknown. @nileane@nileane.fr @RunxiYu@social.treehouse.systems #CaliforniaLaw #USLaw #IllinoisLaw #FreeSoftware #AgeVerification
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@JdeBP@mastodonapp.uk · Mar 05, 2026
@gettie@fedi.catto.garden Actually, it's 'yes' as a login-name here that causes #OpenBSD to issue a message. (Also 'root', 'daemon', 'operator', 'bin', 'build', 'sshd', 'www', 'nobody', and 'ftp'.) @domi@donotsta.re @prahou@merveilles.town #ColoradoLaw #CaliforniaLaw #AgeVerification
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@JdeBP@mastodonapp.uk · Mar 05, 2026
@ariadne@social.treehouse.systems It concerns #AlpineLinux the same as it concerns every other Linux-based operating system that has a package management utility that talks to a public WWW site. As I said at https://mastodonapp.uk/@JdeBP/116156019252249071 and as @RunxiYu has also said, the statute as written covers all such systems. (It's an Act now, by the way, not a Bill.) Alpine Linux has a covered application store. Here, for example, is what 'publicly available internet website' apk as the 'software application' uses to 'facilitate the download' of the third-party rustc 'application' from the 'store' in Alpine Linux on the aforementioned #mainframes used by the aforementioned naughty 16-year-olds in #California: https://dl-cdn.alpinelinux.org/alpine/v3.23/main/s390x/ Yes, #CaliforniaLaw as written is this expansive. Yes, the legislators did not even consider how the BSDs and Linux-based operating systems work. None of the objectors apparently even mentioned how these work. #rust #USLaw #AgeVerification #GDPR #FreeSoftware #Unix
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@Tutanota@mastodon.social · Mar 02, 2026
Due to the massive wave of backlash, Discord is postponing its global #AgeVerification until the second half of 2026. Public backlash works, good job everyone. 👏 🚨But: Discord has not stopped its plan, just put it on hold. 👉 Learn here what's next & how to protect your #identity: https://tuta.com/blog/discord-plans-age-verification-globally #IDcheck #anonymity #privacy
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@JdeBP@mastodonapp.uk · Mar 02, 2026
@reallyflygreg@mstdn.ca @toddalio@mstdn.ca I'm inclined to believe that it is indeed the people who don't understand technology (specifically: they think that everything works like their smart 'phone or Microsoft Windows 11 PC do) making policy; or that they did understand the technology and were just crap at drafting legislation such that it could distinguish the Microsoft Store, Google Play, the Apple App Store, et al. from #Ubuntu's package repository and #OpenBSD's ports tree. And that distinguishing criterion is not #FreeSoftware. Given the aims, the #California legislators would want #FDroid to be required to hand over #AgeVerification data to free-software apps that F-Droid allows, that themselves want to impose age restrictions (on, say, showing certain content to minors) via the route of getting the account holder's age (bracket) information from the operating system via a 'signal' from the 'store'. https://monitor.f-droid.org/anti-features #FreeBSD #NetBSD #Debian #CaliforniaLaw #USLaw
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@JdeBP@mastodonapp.uk · Mar 02, 2026
@montyontherun@bitbang.social The definitions are broad, so to quite an extent they would. There are users, who have accounts, on general purpose computers, and run applications. The only hope for #mainframes seems to be that they likely don't have things that fit the definition of a 'covered application store'. But they might; especially if the mainframe is nowadays running a Linux-based operating system. http://linuxvm.org/info/distros.html #Debian and #Ubuntu have package repositories for s390x, for example. Such a repository is a 'publicly available internet website […] that distributes and facilitates the download of applications'. Here's one way how the naughty 16-year-olds in #California would download rustc onto such a mainframe with no #AgeVerification, for example: https://packages.debian.org/trixie/s390x/rustc/download #CaliforniaLaw #USLaw #FreeSoftware #rust
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@TechDesk@flipboard.social · Feb 25, 2026
Apple is bringing age verification to the U.K. The latest iOS 26.4 beta prompts users to verify that they are over 18, and if they don't confirm their age, they will not be able to download and purchase apps or make in-app purchases. Here's more from @theverge@flipboard.com. https://flip.it/C7yOwH #Technology #Tech #Apple #AgeVerification
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@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange · Feb 24, 2026
YES! This is AMAZING! 🎉 Keep pushing against abusive practices, and keep fighting for your privacy rights! IT WORKS! ✊🔒 https://9to5mac.com/2026/02/24/discord-just-canceled-its-planned-age-verification-rollout-for-now/ #Privacy #AgeVerification #Discord #PrivacyWin
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@Tutanota@mastodon.social · Feb 23, 2026
And that's why we say NO to #AgeVerification 👉 Check the status in your country & whether you need to contact your lawmakers: https://tuta.com/blog/age-verification-kills-anonymity
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@PensioNien@todon.nl · Feb 22, 2026
Age verification is not en never was about protecting children. It's about mass surveillance. "Once a user verifies their identity with Persona, the software performs 269 distinct verification checks and scours the internet and government sources for potential matches, such as by matching your face to politically exposed persons (PEPs), and generating risk and similarity scores for each individual. IP addresses, browser fingerprints, device fingerprints, government ID numbers, phone numbers, names, faces, and even selfie backgrounds are analyzed and retained for up to three years." https://www.therage.co/persona-age-verification/ #AgeVerification #MassSurveillance #Persona #Thiel #ChatControl #Discord
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@Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange · Feb 22, 2026
Age Verification isn't a technical problem to solve. If you think that, you're missing the point. It's a social problem used by authoritarian governments as an excuse for population control and censorship. It's a fundamental attack on free speech and democracy. It must not be accommodated. It must be stopped. #MassSurveillance #AgeVerification #Privacy #Democracy #HumanRights
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@pippo30_16@social.linux.pizza · Feb 18, 2026
after the AGE-VERIFICATION bill got implemented in Australia, there wasn't a long time between IT was in U.S.A, England to,and in the near future even in Europe But to make age-verification work you need VPN-BANS, IT's easy to see where this is going https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2026/02/eff-wisconsin-legislature-vpn-bans-are-still-terrible-idea #ageverification #ID
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