Madrid unveils a digital wallet to help porn platforms verify users’ ages.

The Spanish government has a plan to prevent kids from watching porn online: Meet the porn passport.

Officially (and drily) called the Digital Wallet Beta (Cartera Digital Beta), the app Madrid unveiled on Monday would allow internet platforms to check whether a prospective smut-watcher is over 18. Porn-viewers will be asked to use the app to verify their age. Once verified, they’ll receive 30 generated “porn credits” with a one-month validity granting them access to adult content. Enthusiasts will be able to request extra credits.

You have to request more porn credits from the government if you need more? Don’t want the government to be tracking this data of you. This is a privacy issue

    • don@lemm.ee
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      2 months ago

      Passporn sounds great, pornport just sounds like where someone goes to acquire porn (that series of tubes thing, w/e that is), but pornpass sounds the most likely to be adopted by the marketing department.

  • SorteKanin@feddit.dk
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    2 months ago

    Wait, what are the credits for? You spend them to watch porn or what? So when you’re out of credits you’re locked out? Sorry but… wtf?

  • GreenStar@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Wouldn’t it be more effective to just grant each user a way to pass verification with age with a token tied to some system and simply use a Ring signature so that user privacy is preserved and no need for limits?

    • Trainguyrom@reddthat.comEnglish
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      2 months ago

      I feel like a browser API that just gives info to the site when request of either “is under age, is of age to create an account, is adult” might be an easy way to establish something like this too

      This way the site can voluntarily check if they’re illegally collecting data on minors, if they’re showing adult content to adults, and automatically display age appropriate content of applicable

      Maybe an NSFW flag as well that sites can check to automatically show/hide NSFW content, for example on work machines or shared computers, but that’s probably getting a little too finegrained

      The real question is how is the age flag determined? Is it determined by the browser? The OS? Browser seems the safest bet, since Google can base it off of the Google Account, Microsoft can base it off the Microsoft account and Mozilla can shove it in the settings and potentially base it on the Mozilla account

    • delirious_owl@discuss.online
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      2 months ago

      Is “effective” really the word you want to use?

      Of course engineers are going to design the simplest system that meets the requirements. It seems like “privacy” wasn’t on the list of requirements here.

  • Aria@lemmygrad.ml
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    2 months ago

    So the reason they give you multiple credits instead of just a 30 day cookie when you sign into a website is that it’s anonymised right? You generate them and save them offline and the government doesn’t know which token belongs to who?

  • delirious_owl@discuss.online
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    2 months ago

    Iirc Spain is one of those countries that makes you install a cert to use some of their government services, which they can then use to MITM all your https connections

    • potajito@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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      2 months ago

      Yeah this is not true. First the cert is only used on some government sites, no mitm anywhere. Also if you don’t like the cert there are other ways to authenticate yourself, for example using your Id on a electronic reader or normal auth with user name pass and 2fa.

  • Paul Sutton@qoto.org
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    2 months ago

    @Salix

    Lets see how this pans out and how well it works ( or does not work )

    What we perhaps need to do is start building respect for each other,

  • abracaDavid@lemmy.today
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    2 months ago

    I haven’t read enough to know if this is a good thing or not.

    But goddamn, I would hate having a 12 year old right now knowing how much terrible, awful shit is out there these days.

    I mean there’s a ton of accounts like Andrew Tate that are aimed at getting these kids on a terrible thought path while they’re still kids.

    I would hate to have my theoretical child reading all of the terrible bullshit that’s out there with no filter.

    • rektdeckard@lemmy.world
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      2 months ago

      I’m so much more worried about my future kids’ access to toxic alpha male shit and fascist propaganda than I am about porn.

  • werefreeatlast@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    Wait…I want to be “Secretario de Pornabilidad Social” or “Secretary or Social Probability”

    I imagine my self going through all the SSN… Sexual Super Numbers to manage access and report usage.

    1335346755 watched 6 hours per day of mostly vanilla doggy.

    2356544677 more doggie

    More doggie… doggie again. But every now and then… 1257678965534 watched 72 consecutive hours of BDSM where the sub faces downward into a hole in the floor where a camera…then the last does the same and the video cuts to another similar one. We must report this immediately to the right authority!