Collection talk:Electronic identification

Proposed eID

EU

Spain

• Spain to introduce age-verification for accessing porn this year - https://www.euronews.com/next/2024/07/05/spain-to-introduce-age-verification-for-accessing-porn-by-fall
  • The Cartera Digital Beta “wallet” will be a mobile app that stores an “adult age credential” issued by the Spanish government after analysing the user’s ID card stored in the system.

Proposed regular ID

An initial measure paving the way for potential mandatory electronic identification in the future.

EU

"France, Germany and Britain and U.S. states including Utah and Texas have drafted laws requiring porn sites to verify a user is 18 or older. Methods could include checking credit cards or government-issued ID or scanning faces to estimate ages, but all those systems have raised concerns about privacy and discrimination." - https://apnews.com/article/porn-websites-age-verification-digital-services-act-64584aae905cb344dd3e1bfb385c7c27

Sweden

• Sweden’s Social Democrats want EU ID verification to fight social media trolls - https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/news/swedens-social-democrats-want-eu-id-verification-to-fight-social-media-trolls/

USA

From https://action.freespeechcoalition.com/age-verification-bills/ "In 2022, Louisiana passed a law requiring the use of age verification on websites that contain a “substantial portion” (33.33%) of adult content. Websites must utilize commercial age verification systems that check a user’s government identification or “public or private transactional data” to confirm that a user is at least 18 years old.

Louisiana’s law sparked a flurry of copycat legislation to be introduced in state houses around the country. Eight of those bills passed in 2023."