Tier 1 networks legally not allowed to route packets that aren't digitally signed by a cryptographic ID linked to you
Hopefully they exempt UDP traffic with a destination port of 53. Or suspiciously-large ICMP echo request and echo response packets.
Yeesh thats chilling
Additionally tier 1 networks legally not allowed to route packets that don't include an attestation that they were produced by a computer running only approved software.
The EU age id app is this, with some extra privacy hurdles (the id is only on your phone not on the remote server).
And this will then be used by the Apple and Google to make "security" on the OS "stronger" so that "we can protect the children" better (i.e. lock down the OS even more and take control away from us consumers). In this new idiocracy, this this is how corporates and government work together to take away our rights ...
it's the other way around: the app mandates usage of ios and google because they already provide those lock downs.
I've heard Turkey's age verification law jumps straight to "no internet access without ID"
Politicians worldwide are salivating at the chance of throwing their opposition and critics in prison.
As if that took the internet to do
Already a thing for a lot of services (like financial), but still. There's better ways that don't involve sending your ID or facial scans to a first or third party.
Yeah, I set up a trading212 account lately and they wanted ID scan + live video. I mind that a bit less for finance: identity theft is real, and there are significant disadvantages to me if someone can set up a bank account in my name without getting ID checked.
I'm not doing it for bloody discord or bsky DMs.
I'm paying Fidelity's fees instead of completing the verification process with Trading 212.
I assume that everyone's ID is identifiable by willing state actors (at least adults) . Perhaps they want to create databases of possible child terrorists?