Florida's DeSantis signs law restricting social media for people under 16

Re:Florida's DeSantis signs law restricting social media for... by dangus on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @12:40PM (#39829903)

What I’m really unclear about is whether providers are required to use an actual ID to age verify. Does anyone know?

The bill summary on the Florida senate webpage says:

> Such commercial entities must verify, using either an anonymous or standard age verification method, that the age of a person attempting to access the material harmful to minors satisfies the bill’s age requirements.

It sounds to me like “anonymous age verification method” could just mean that the website asks how old you are? What constitutes verification here? That sentence makes it sound like they can choose to use whatever feeble method they want.

At face value this law seems like political points being scored by passing a widely popular law that changes very little in practice (bumping the minimum age from 13 to 14).

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Re:Florida's DeSantis signs law restricting social media for... by somethingreen on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @04:47PM (#39832651)

Anonymous verification could be something like OAuth. Government run or certified probably. You'd need to provide an ID to OAuth provider once, but the actual service requesting verification would get as little as your age and email.

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Re:Florida's DeSantis signs law restricting social media for... by dangus on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @08:22PM (#39834406)

I just wonder if they even have to go that far. I didn’t really see much of a standard of what is age verification defined.

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Re:Florida's DeSantis signs law restricting social media for... by autoexec on Tuesday March 26, 2024 @09:50PM (#39834914)

> Anonymous verification could be something like OAuth. You'd need to provide an ID to OAuth provider once

That doesn't sound very anonymous to me

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