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Search results for tag #ageverification

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[?]Open Rights Group » 🌐
@openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org

Papers, please!

Digital ID age checks have taken another lunge forward. UK MPs have agreed to new powers to expand age verification across online platforms.

More and more everyday web services will be locked behind digital checkpoints, despite the serious privacy and security risks of this system.

Read more ⬇️

openrightsgroup.org/press-rele

    [?]The New Oil » 🤖 🌐
    @thenewoil@mastodon.thenewoil.org

    to ban , chatbots for youth, premier says

    cbc.ca/news/canada/manitoba/ma

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      [?]Open Rights Group » 🌐
      @openrightsgroup@social.openrightsgroup.org

      There needs to be an urgent rethink on digital ID age checks.

      Unregulated providers sitting on a pot of highly sensitive data. What could go wrong?

      Breaches have already happened, T&Cs allow them to use it for advertising purposes and behind-the-scenes links to surveillance companies.

      Read more ⬇️

      theregister.com/2026/04/23/pro

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        [?]PrivacyDigest » 🌐
        @PrivacyDigest@mas.to

        Adds Open-Source Exemption to Age-Verification Bill

        yro.slashdot.org/story/26/04/2

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          [?]Freezenet » 🌐
          @freezenet@noc.social

          Manitoba Acts on Moral Panic, Pushes Age Verification

          The Manitoba government has announced that it would be joining the war on free speech with an age verification bill.

          freezenet.ca/manitoba-acts-on-

            [?]The New Oil » 🤖 🌐
            @thenewoil@mastodon.thenewoil.org

            Most Australian teens admit the isn’t working as they try to sidestep blocks with face masks and their parents’ IDs

            fortune.com/2026/04/25/austral

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              [?]The New Oil » 🤖 🌐
              @thenewoil@mastodon.thenewoil.org

              Adds Exemption to Age-Attestation Bill

              linuxiac.com/colorado-adds-ope

                [?]The New Oil » 🤖 🌐
                @thenewoil@mastodon.thenewoil.org

                Act Now to Stop ’s Paternalistic and -Destroying

                eff.org/deeplinks/2026/04/act-

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                  [?]kuro 🇪🇺🔏 » 🌐
                  @Kurosetii@mastodon.social

                  More about PlayStation Age verification.

                  PSN Age verification

                  Alt...PSN Age verification

                    Age Verification boosted

                    [?]Kevin Dominik Korte » 🌐
                    @kdkorte@fosstodon.org

                    Looks like Colorado will exempt Open Source projects from its age verification requirement. Part of me wants to cheer it on. The other part wants to call for age verification to be binned entirely.

                    linuxiac.com/colorado-adds-ope

                      Age Verification boosted

                      [?]Fossery Tech :debian: :gnome: » 🌐
                      @fosserytech@social.linux.pizza

                      This week's Linux and FOSS news:

                      LINUX NEWS

                      Colorado Age Attestation Bill May Exclude Open Source OSes and Apps:
                      9to5linux.com/colorado-age-att

                      AlmaLinux Comments On California Age Verification Law:
                      phoronix.com/news/AlmaLinux-Ag

                      Ubuntu 26.04 LTS released: GNOME 50, Wayland-only and Linux 7.0:
                      omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/04/ubuntu

                      Ubuntu Server 26.04 LTS Will Now Automatically Install HWE/OEM Kernel Packages:
                      phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Serve

                      Ubuntu 26.10 (Stonking Stingray) release date & schedule:
                      omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/04/ubuntu

                      Ubuntu Rust Coreutils Audit Revealed 113 Issues, Ubuntu 26.10 Aims For "100% Rust Coreutils":
                      phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Rust-

                      Ubuntu Looks Toward More Snap-Based Devpacks Moving Forward:
                      phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-More-

                      Ghostty OpenGL-Accelerated Terminal Available On Ubuntu 26.04 LTS:
                      phoronix.com/news/Ghostty-Ubun

                      Archinstall 4.3 Arch Linux Installer Adds Support for Installing Additional Fonts:
                      9to5linux.com/archinstall-4-3-

                      CachyOS Rolls Out A Super-Charged Linux 7.0 Kernel:
                      phoronix.com/news/CachyOS-Supe

                      Microsoft Reportedly Looking At Rebasing Azure Linux On Fedora:
                      phoronix.com/news/MS-Azure-Lin

                      Tails 7.7 Anonymous Distro Adds Detection of Outdated Secure Boot Certificates:
                      9to5linux.com/tails-7-7-anonym

                      Almalinux 9.8 beta released with expanded architecture and toolset support:
                      alternativeto.net/news/2026/4/

                      LXQt 2.4 Desktop Environment Released with More Wayland Improvements:
                      9to5linux.com/lxqt-2-4-desktop

                      Niri 26.04 Wayland Compositor Adds Much Sought After Blur Support:
                      phoronix.com/news/Niri-26.04-R

                      (more Linux and FOSS news in comments)

                        [?]The New Oil » 🤖 🌐
                        @thenewoil@mastodon.thenewoil.org

                        plans to ban use by children under 16

                        reuters.com/world/europe/norwa

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                          [?]kuro 🇪🇺🔏 » 🌐
                          @Kurosetii@mastodon.social

                          About Age verification on Playstation, Sony confirmed that people can still play online, buy games and DLCs on PS Store and buy subscriptions, BUT the account result as a minor and you can't access to Messages,Party, Streams, guess it's a big and nice alternative if you don't want to verify!

                            Privacy and Surveillance boosted

                            [?]𝕂𝚞𝚋𝚒𝚔ℙ𝚒𝚡𝚎𝚕 » 🌐
                            @kubikpixel@chaos.social

                            « CEO warns global push will mean "the death of anonymity online"
                            Protecting children is crucial, but forcing every user to hand over their ID is a privacy waiting to happen, according to the head of the firm»

                            It's never about that's just an argument to convince people to voluntarily hand over their . In today's , people are the product and the is their .

                            👉 techradar.com/vpn/vpn-privacy-

                              [?]The New Oil » 🤖 🌐
                              @thenewoil@mastodon.thenewoil.org

                              We must keep from killing online

                              proton.me/blog/keep-age-verifi

                                Privacy and Surveillance boosted

                                [?]James Tweedie » 🌐
                                @MyricaGale@mastodon.scot

                                is asking to submit face scans for "." But the tech is powered by —a company backed by Peter Thiel, the billionaire "panopticon architect" behind mass surveillance and ICE raids.
                                Worse, Persona’s terms strip parents of their right to join a class-action if their child's data is leaked or misused. We need to show Roblox its "safe playground" reputation is at stake.
                                act.sumofus.org/go/746919


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                                  [?]knoppix » 🌐
                                  @knoppix95@mastodon.social

                                  Age verification is expanding from laws into platforms and operating systems, linking access to identity checks across services and devices 🌐
                                  Implementations often require IDs or biometrics, creating centralized data targets and reducing anonymity despite privacy claims 🔐

                                  🔗 proton.me/blog/age-verificatio

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                                    [?]knoppix » 🌐
                                    @knoppix95@mastodon.social

                                    EU age verification app was declared ready and privacy-presing, but researchers bypassed protections in under 2 minutes despite open-source code 🔍
                                    Flaws in config-stored controls, disabled biometrics, and exposed credentials highlight risks of identity linkage and centralized tracking ⚠️

                                    🔗 proton.me/blog/eu-age-verifica

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                                      [?]Stop OS Surveillance Mandate » 🌐
                                      @stopossmandate@mastodon.social

                                      Global push will mean "the death of anonymity online." CEO warns, including OS-level age verification laws and bills.

                                      share.google/06ne5JehOcgw4OUaW

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                                        [?]Privacy Guides » 🌐
                                        @privacyguides.org@bsky.brid.gy

                                        Age Verification Comes to EU & America 😬

                                          [?]The New Oil » 🤖 🌐
                                          @thenewoil@mastodon.thenewoil.org

                                          The rise of : What governments, platforms, and devices are changing

                                          proton.me/blog/age-verificatio

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                                            [?]Guillotine Jones, Flâneur » 🌐
                                            @Guillotine_Jones@beige.party

                                            Carl Richell, founder of System76 and Linux version Pop!_OS, is proposing an amendment to Colorado's age verification bill to exempt open source software.
                                            The amendment would exclude open source operating systems and apps, code repositories like GitHub and GitLab, and containers like Docker and Podman.
                                            Richell is scheduled to appear before Colorado lawmakers today, April 23, and asks for backup in the form of stories about kids who have built or made things thanks to unhindered use of open source software.
                                            itsfoss.com/news/colorado-age-

                                              [?]The New Oil » 🤖 🌐
                                              @thenewoil@mastodon.thenewoil.org

                                              Begins Considering Introduction of an

                                              discuss.privacyguides.net/t/ja

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                                                [?]Ham on Wry » 🌐
                                                @HamonWry@mastodon.world

                                                How about Age Verification for the presidency to prevent another immature toddler from pulling down and making a mess of everything that makes America great.

                                                  Age Verification boosted

                                                  [?]jbz » 🌐
                                                  @jbz@indieweb.social

                                                  🛂 AlmaLinux Comments On California Age Verification Law

                                                  ｢ They are planning to wait and see how legal challenges play out and other activity within the court system. They are also waiting to see how the likes of Fedora and Red Hat Enterprise Linux address (or not) the requirements of this law.
                                                  Presumably they'll likely end up following whatever is done upstream in RHEL. ｣

                                                  phoronix.com/news/AlmaLinux-Ag

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                                                    [?]Em :official_verified: » 🌐
                                                    @Em0nM4stodon@infosec.exchange

                                                    Age verification laws forcing platforms to restrict content access have been multiplying exponentially.

                                                    The problem is, implementing such measures necessarily requires identifying every user accessing the content, one way or another.

                                                    This is bad news for everyone.

                                                    If these regulations continue
                                                    to proliferate, this could lead to the end of pseudonymity online, and much worse.

                                                    I wrote this article last year,
                                                    but unfortunately this problem has only become worse, and it is sadly still very relevant.

                                                    privacyguides.org/articles/202

                                                      Age Verification boosted

                                                      [?]Diogo Constantino » 🌐
                                                      @DiogoConstantino@masto.pt

                                                      If you want age verification and social media bans for minors, but don't want to forbid the sale of food with added sugar to children, you lie every time you say you want to protect children from harms and addiction.

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                                                        [?]Privacy Guides » 🌐
                                                        @privacyguides@mastodon.neat.computer

                                                        We’re going against the grain on this one, to acknowledge that proposal H.R. 8250 is not nearly as bad as past proposals like KOSA or the EU’s ID verification scheme. New video out now: Why Everyone's Got the 'Parents Decide Act' Wrong

                                                        YouTube: youtu.be/Ggj5mKKv740
                                                        PeerTube: neat.tube/w/jHa1S4cqjvwBK75fQ6

                                                          [?]The New Oil » 🤖 🌐
                                                          @thenewoil@mastodon.thenewoil.org

                                                          To Require For Certain Online Features

                                                          insider-gaming.com/playstation

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                                                            [?]Lydia Conwell » 🌐
                                                            @lydiaconwell@todon.nl

                                                            You know this at OS level which might come into effect?

                                                            Is that already a way to resist this? Are there measures people can take? I guess it defends of how the age verification operates, but perhaps some clever people know exactly what to expect?

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                                                              [?]matthew - retroedge.tech » 🌐
                                                              @matthew@social.retroedge.tech

                                                              “While we wait on court challenges and to see if and how these laws apply to non-commercial open source operating systems and applications, let me assure users that no one on the team at MX wants to implement something like age verification.“

                                                              https://linuxiac.com/mx-linux-takes-clear-stance-against-age-verification-requirements/

                                                              #mxLinux #ageVerification #privacy #linux

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                                                                [?]Teh AnKorage ☑️ » 🌐
                                                                @ankorage@fe.disroot.org

                                                                "Don't Let the Government Control Your Computer | Government (not parents) Decide Act" 👀👏🌻

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                                                                  [?]nivs » 🌐
                                                                  @nivrig@mastodon.social

                                                                  age verification partner, Yoti, everyone:

                                                                  stateofsurveillance.org/news/y

                                                                  /ht @paddyduke

                                                                    [?]The New Oil » 🤖 🌐
                                                                    @thenewoil@mastodon.thenewoil.org

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