Re:The UK's Controversial Online Safety Act Is Now Law
by throwaway290 on Saturday October 28, 2023 @10:22AM
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App requests that you are of age. You are redirected to gov site, you log in to gov site, gov site tells app true or false. No one knows your age, no one checks your ID, besides the gov site which anyway knows your age because they issued your ID. This is basic OAuth. What's the problem again?
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Re:The UK's Controversial Online Safety Act Is Now Law
by headsman771 on Saturday October 28, 2023 @10:49AM
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Now gov site has a list of every website you've looked at.
Re:The UK's Controversial Online Safety Act Is Now Law
by Ographer on Saturday October 28, 2023 @11:28AM
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So now the government gets to gatekeep every website deemed controversial? That's quite the slippery slope.
Re:The UK's Controversial Online Safety Act Is Now Law
by throwaway290 on Sunday October 29, 2023 @05:18AM
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True, but gov site doesn't have to be informed which site is asking whether you are of age or not.
The problem as I see it is not about government gatekeeping stuff (they already can do it if they want and we can already bypass it if we want, like literally nothing will change) but that third-party sites that profile users can now also add "of age" to fingerprints.