zlacker

Yes, in a perfect world the downsides are limited. But in the world we live in I predict a lot more leaks similar to the Tea app hack (which contained a lot of passports, linked to some quite private data from chats like medical documents)

The biggest hope I see is that the EU also wants to implement age restrictions, but with a lot more effort to get it right and make it compatible with a strong desire for privacy. Maybe that will make "proper" implementations easy and common enough that many of the downsides will be mitigated

>>wongar+(OP)
Leaks of what? The tea app are morons — they literally stored the data! Why did they do it? Why not to delete immediately after verification?

Anyway, there are two questions here:

1. Do we need to verify the age of internet users?

2. How can we do it without sacrificing privacy of everyone involved?

>>reliab+Qf
> Why did they do it?

You can't monetise the data you don't store

>>ta1243+HZ
How can you monetize pictures of IDs?

>>reliab+601
Not sure yet, hence we'll keep it for when we figure that out