Re:"Privacy preserving age verification" is bullshit
by BlueTemplar on Friday August 15, 2025 @04:38AM
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Slowing them down might be enough.
Didn't we have a recent example with DOGE ?
Re:"Privacy preserving age verification" is bullshit
by wizzwizz4 on Friday August 15, 2025 @05:10AM
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Slightly different spellings of names (Ant Mars Smith vs Mark Tony Smith-Jones), ways to write addresses (house name vs road name), etc will make automatic joins difficult. Such inconsistencies do not significantly affect the ability for humans to use the records.
Then it's just a matter of making sure that everybody with the skills to do so, either refuses, or does a bad enough job to sabotage other parts of the process. (It is not hard to think of these, so I will not discuss them here.) Making the job legitimately difficult makes it easier for people to refuse to do it, and makes it more likely that the bad guys who try will find that they actually can't.
Your birth certificate is still stored somewhere. You're still entered in a bunch of databases from the moment you're given birth to in a hospital. You still get a social security number, which you need to work, which you need to do to afford food.
Sure, all those databases might not have a neat shared primary key, but that's definitely not going to stop future Holocaust 2.0 perpetrators from joining all those tables together.