A global coalition of regulators is quietly turning the open web into a gated community where every login begins with an ID check.
By the time you’re reading this, there’s a decent chance that somewhere, quietly and with a great deal of bureaucratic back-patting, someone is trying to figure out exactly how old you are. And not because they’re planning a surprise party.
Not because you asked them to. But because the nine horsemen of the regulatory apocalypse have decided that the future of a “safe” internet depends on everyone flashing their ID like they’re trying to get into an especially dull nightclub.
This is the nightmare of “age assurance,” a term so bloodlessly corporate you can practically hear it sighing into its own PowerPoint.
This is a sprawling, gelatinous lump of biometric estimation, document scans, and AI-ified guesswork, stitched together into one big global initiative under the cheery-sounding Global Online Safety Regulators Network, or GOSRN. Catchy...
This month, this merry band of regulators released a “Position Statement on Age Assurance and Online Safety Regulation.”
....Inside this gem of a document is a plan to push shared age-verification principles across borders, including support for biometric analysis, official ID checks, and the general dismantling of anonymity for the greater good of child protection.
But don’t worry, it insists that all of this should be “accurate, reliable, fair, and non-intrusive,” which is a bit like saying you’d like your chainsaw to be “gentle, precise, and whisper-quiet.”
🔗SOURCE ➡️ ReclaimTheNet
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