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"Privacy preserving age verification" is bullshit
Today's links - "Privacy preserving age verification" is bullshit: Take it from the guy who invented it. - Hey look at this: Delights to delectate.
It's hard to get right, but when we do, it offers a wondrous level of protection from interception and eavesdropping, scrambling our data so thoroughly that you would have to consume multiple universes worth of time and space to build all the computers necessary to guess the descrambling key. I'm talking about the UK Online Safety Act, which imposes a duty on websites to verify the age of people they communicate with before serving them anything that could be construed as child-inappropriate (a category that includes, e.g., much of Wikipedia): Canny Valley: A limited edition collection of the collages I create for Pluralistic, self-published, September 2025 Unauthorized Bread: a middle-grades graphic novel adapted from my novella about refugees, toasters and DRM, FirstSecond, 2026
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