UK peer calls for universal Internet delete button, may also want unicorns
http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2015/08/uk-peer-calls-for-universal-internet-delete-button-may-also-want-unicorns/
In an interview with the Irish Examiner, Baroness Kidron
was tackled this point. "The question of how they know you are a
child is a torturous question," she told the paper. "There are
plenty of companies that work on anonymous verification and
there are ways websites can know that a kid is a kid without
knowing who they are." Essentially, then, the good Baroness
believes in techno-magic: those clever geeks will come up with
some unspecified system that can work out a young person's age
to the nearest day--or month, or year, depending on your
gullibility--without even knowing who they are. That's merely
one technical reason why the system will be impossible to
implement. Another is because of legal issues. Last week, Google
politely but firmly refused to extend the so-called "right to be
forgotten" from Europe to the whole world. As it wrote on its
blog, "We believe that no one country should have the authority
to control what content someone in a second country can access."
Other Internet companies are likely to agree with that
viewpoint, which means that at best they might block access to a
young person's post for visitors from the UK, or possibly in
Europe, but it would still exist for users in other countries
(and for those who connect via VPNs, of course).
- - -
Dangerous pandering politicos.
--Lauren--
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