Court Rules in Pornhub’s Favor in Finding Texas Age-Verification Law Violates First Amendment
variety.com
Score one for Pornhub: A federal judge ruled Thursday that a Texas law requiring pornography sites to institute age-verification measures — and add prominent warning labels about the alleged …
  • EtzBetz@feddit.de
    4·
    1 year ago

    Where are we talking about installing malware? This could be implemented by the os itself, like many other similar things in the last years as well (password storage, covid nearby activity, …). The os could just ask the user to verify his age by identity card or similar, would then store a flag after verification and a browser -> website can access this.

    The only problem I see with this, if there is no verification on the other side, you could “just” have a browser which tells the website that the user is adult, no matter what, or, if it’s more dedicated, could even use a modified version of Linux to always have the flag set, haha.

    • Djtecha@lemm.ee
      3·
      1 year ago

      Or just idk monitor your kids browsing if you wanna be a snooping parent. Leave me the fuck alone with this policy nonsense.

    • LufyCZ@lemmy.world
      2·
      1 year ago

      Yeah I really don’t want to be scanning my ID card on my device to do anything like this.

      Slippery slope to it storing my name, address, birthdate, eventually sharing those things as well

    • CoachDom
      1·
      1 year ago

      A software like this could potentially turn into a government malware (software with malicious intent). Optional tools like covid nearby activity are fine, because they are optional. As soon as you are forced to install a software that stores your extremely sensitive data, on your mobile and any device really (like in order to verify if you can watch this particular movie on your telly), its a slippery slope to me. Governments have a long track of making apps that are half assed and vulnerable to malicious attacks.