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Spain introduces porn passport to stop kids from watching smut (www.politico.eu)

submitted 4 months ago by Salix@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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The Spanish government has a plan to prevent kids from watching porn online: Meet the porn passport.

Officially (and drily) called the Digital Wallet Beta (Cartera Digital Beta), the app Madrid unveiled on Monday would allow internet platforms to check whether a prospective smut-watcher is over 18. Porn-viewers will be asked to use the app to verify their age. Once verified, they'll receive 30 generated “porn credits” with a one-month validity granting them access to adult content. Enthusiasts will be able to request extra credits.

You have to request more porn credits from the government if you need more? Don't want the government to be tracking this data of you. This is a privacy issue

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[–] GreenStar@lemmy.world 2 points 4 months ago (3 children)

Wouldn’t it be more effective to just grant each user a way to pass verification with age with a token tied to some system and simply use a Ring signature so that user privacy is preserved and no need for limits?

[–] delirious_owl@discuss.online 8 points 4 months ago

Is "effective" really the word you want to use?

Of course engineers are going to design the simplest system that meets the requirements. It seems like "privacy" wasn't on the list of requirements here.

[–] GreenStar@lemmy.world 5 points 4 months ago

For those in Spain I suggest protonVpn

[–] Trainguyrom@reddthat.com 0 points 4 months ago

I feel like a browser API that just gives info to the site when request of either "is under age, is of age to create an account, is adult" might be an easy way to establish something like this too

This way the site can voluntarily check if they're illegally collecting data on minors, if they're showing adult content to adults, and automatically display age appropriate content of applicable

Maybe an NSFW flag as well that sites can check to automatically show/hide NSFW content, for example on work machines or shared computers, but that's probably getting a little too finegrained

The real question is how is the age flag determined? Is it determined by the browser? The OS? Browser seems the safest bet, since Google can base it off of the Google Account, Microsoft can base it off the Microsoft account and Mozilla can shove it in the settings and potentially base it on the Mozilla account