Microsoft Brings "Age Verification" System to Windows

0utcast

So dumb and so glad I moved to Linux before ts happened.

RandomSwedish

And there it is, finally, in all its glory: the thing that makes me install Linux on my kids computers. No way I will let some further tracking into their lives, especially as it is bound to be from one of the actually evil companies.

stubish

The more times people equate age checks with ID checks the more likely that age checks will be ID checks. Like here, even though the diagram explicitly shows a check purely for age and the system the OS uses still an unknown and likely region specific.

Frieren

What technical implementation will be used to verify the user age? - Taking pictures of children seems something that will go horribly bad - Government verification is not implemented, even in countries were it is possible to verify your identity on-line (to pay taxes or so) it still lacks safe and anonymous way to verify age. - Sending IDs like passports and so will be a source of hacking and identity theft. I am all for having a government sanction service that allows me to send them a session key and they sign it as I am an adult. The government does not need to know from where the key comes from and the service does not need to know my ID. Just age verification.