Most parties in the Danish parliament said they support implementing a 15-year-old minimum age requirement for social media. It is not yet known which social media platforms will be affected.
Most parties in the Danish parliament said they support implementing a 15-year-old minimum age requirement for social media. It is not yet known which social media platforms will be affected.
And how would that be enforced? More surveillance?
You know it
It sounds like they’re using MitID, the Danish government personal verification software. It’s completely ubiquitous here, and it’s linked to your CPR number (like a social security number but more functional).
The apps, as far as I understand it, won’t know anything other than “yes they verified they’re over 18” from MitID.
I understand and definitely feel the surveillance fear, but this feels well worth it to me for less brainwashing of children by companies like Twitter and FB
Apparently you have to either verify your profile using a government developed app, or the SoMe companies can introduce their own verification methods if they want. So yeah, presumably more surveillance with all Danish users having to verify. However it also says the law only targets specific SoMes with a verifiable bad effect on children - so it might not be a blanket ban but only affect the larger ones. No idea how that’s gonna work out though.
Oh, so they’ll be able to pay to get off the baddies list, then. I get it.
Nah, I doubt it. This is Denmark, not the US. But it means that it won’t be like the UK, where all websites just IP ban people from there since the laws are too broad. Still a huge privacy nightmare though.
Denmark is the one spearheading chat control, btw.
Yeah, Denmark is doing lots of stupid stuff wrt online privacy right now. But there is not some corrupt “let the big tech firm pay us off to not be affected” reason behind this, as the commenter suggested. More a protect the children and a “protect the children™” reasoning.
That’s not how lawmakers think, surely you can’t be that naive?
This will 100% be used as evidence to do these things in other places, and no one from Denmark will adequately warn that.
I don’t really understand technology, but I’m pretty sure the digital ID app can be used to verify your age without giving the website any further personal information.
The wise person knows that they know nothing. I’d like to unironically tap into that wisdom. My problem is that I do understand technology, and I have a hard time understanding what people expect such laws to do.
How do you feel such laws relate to the Fediverse and Lemmy in particular?