Canada’s proposed Bill S-209, which addresses online age verification, is currently making its way through the Senate, and its passage would be yet another mistake in tech policy.
The bill is intended to restrict young peoples’ access to online pornography and to hold providers to account for making it available to anyone under 18. It may be well-intentioned, but the manner of its proposed enforcement – mandating age verification or what is being called “age-estimation technologies” – is troubling.
Globally, age-verification tools are a popular business, and many companies are in favour of S-209, particularly because it requires that websites and organizations rely on third parties for these tools. However, they bring up long-standing concerns over privacy, especially when you consider potential leaks or hacks of this information, which in some cases include biometrics that can identify us by our faces or fingerprints. […]
Counter-question: which flavor of mountain dew do you like the least.
I don’t drink soda drinks - which, unlike my questions, is irrelevant.
Unless you can assert a link between soda and child safety and well-being, or between soda and social conservative beliefs.
Edit to add we should leave this discussion, it’s dead at this point. I wish you the best of luck with your kids, sorry to hear you feel like you need to protect them to the point of sacrificing your privacy. I suggested there are other ways to do this that don’t affect your privacy but it seems your attitudes towards pornography are sufficiently negative that you won’t consider them.
I suggest you worry about your own kids and stop worrying about mine.
But I want to be like you, who is able to worry about your own kids as well as mine!
But yes you are right, this discussion ended a few comments ago.