#digitalids — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #digitalids, aggregated by home.social.
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Of #DigitalIDs
One frontbencher describes this latest U-turn as, simply, “a shitshow.”
Ha !
2026 is just a much of a nightmare as 2025 for Starmer and his woodentops
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"A new Texas statute aimed at inserting the state into routine decisions about app downloads has been stopped at the courthouse door, at least for now.
A federal judge ruled days before the law’s scheduled launch that its design collides with the First Amendment and cannot be enforced while the case moves forward.
Robert Pitman of the Western District of Texas issued a preliminary injunction blocking Senate Bill 2420, the Texas App Store Accountability Act, which was set to take effect on January 1.
We obtained a copy of the order for you here.
The law would have required app stores to verify every user’s age (which would mean digital ID checks or biometric scans) and forced minors to obtain parental approval before downloading apps or buying in-app content.
In a detailed written ruling, Pitman concluded the statute is both constitutionally defective and structurally unworkable.
“The Act is akin to a law that would require every bookstore to verify the age of every customer at the door and, for minors, require parental consent before the child or teen could enter and again when they try to purchase a book,” he wrote.
He added that “when considered on the merits, SB 2420 violates the First Amendment.”"
https://reclaimthenet.org/texas-app-store-accountability-act-blocked-federal-judge-first-amendment
#USA #Texas #FirstAmendment #AgeVerification #DigitalIDs #Biometrics
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"It’s nearly the end of 2025, and half of the US and the UK now require you to upload your ID or scan your face to watch “sexual content.” A handful of states and Australia now have various requirements to verify your age before you can create a social media account.
Age-verification laws may sound straightforward to some: protect young people online by making everyone prove their age. But in reality, these mandates force users into one of two flawed systems—mandatory ID checks or biometric scans—and both are deeply discriminatory. These proposals burden everyone’s right to speak and access information online, and structurally excludes the very people who rely on the internet most. In short, although these laws are often passed with the intention to protect children from harm, the reality is that these laws harm both adults and children.
Here’s who gets hurt, and how:"
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/12/10-not-so-hidden-dangers-age-verification
#AgeVerification #DigitalIDs #Biometrics #Surveilance #Privacy
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Gab es auf dem #Digitalgipfel beim Thema #souveranitat für #digitalIDs eine Antwort auf die Frage, wie #BundID/ #eID / #EUID wallets & co jenseits von #Apple und #Google Mobilgeräten genutzt werden könnten?
Wenn menschen Ihre #Identitäten nur auf Geräten dieser Hersteller nutzen könnten, wäre europäische #Souveränität doch sehr "fragil"
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The trumpian contempt continues for this poorly thought out Tech hustle of an idea that the People clearly said they didn't want it but it will be forced on us anyway, whether we like it or not, because "refugees"
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/digital-id-card-keir-starmer-b2851039.html
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🚨🇬🇧 Surveillance in the UK is rising as it plans to roll out mandatory #digitalIDs for all its citizens.
Why is this deeply concerning?
❌ Increases state control
❌ Infringes on your privacy
❌ First step to creating a surveillance state
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Apple just added another state ID to Apple Wallet — what you need to know
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#NewsBeep #News #US #USA #UnitedStates #UnitedStatesOfAmerica #Mobile #apple #AppleWatch #digitalIDs #driver'slicense #driver'slicenses #NorthDakota #NorthDakotaDepartmentofTransportation #Stategovernments #Technology #Walletapp
https://www.newsbeep.com/us/187945/ -
Apple just added another state ID to Apple Wallet — what you need to know
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#NewsBeep #News #Mobile #Apple #applewatch #digitalIDs #driver'slicense #driver'slicenses #northdakota #NorthDakotaDepartmentofTransportation #Stategovernments #Technology #UK #UnitedKingdom #Walletapp
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Railway companies look to #DigitalIDs facial biometrics and blockchain for ticketing 👇🧐
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#USA #DigitalIDs #DigitalDriversLicence #Surveillance #Privacy #DataProtection: "Smartphones have already made it significantly easier for governments and corporations to track everything we do and everywhere we go. Digital IDs are poised to add to that data collection, by increasing the frequency that our phones leave digital breadcrumbs behind us. There are technological safeguards that could reduce these risks, but they’re currently not required by law, and no technology fix is perfect enough to guarantee privacy.
For example, if you use a digital ID to prove your age to buy a six-pack of beer, the card reader’s verifier might make a record of the holder’s age status. Even if personal information isn’t exchanged in the credential itself, you may have provided payment info associated with this transaction. This collusion of personal information might be then sold to data brokers, seized by police or immigration officials, stolen by data thieves, or misused by employees.
This is just one more reason why we need a federal data privacy law: currently, there aren’t sufficient rules around how your data gets used."
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/10/should-i-use-my-states-digital-drivers-license
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Zetrix brings digital ID verification to Chinese nationals abroad - The Malaysian blockchain is the international supernode operator of Chin... - https://cointelegraph.com/news/malaysian-zetrix-digital-id-verification-chinese-nationals-abroad #identityverification #malaysiablockchain #chinesedigitalid #globalidsolution #kycverification #digitalidentity #blockchain #xinghuobif #digitalids #zetrix #zcert
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Zetrix brings digital ID verification to Chinese nationals abroad - The Malaysian blockchain is the international supernode operator of Chin... - https://cointelegraph.com/news/malaysian-zetrix-digital-id-verification-chinese-nationals-abroad #identityverification #malaysiablockchain #chinesedigitalid #globalidsolution #kycverification #digitalidentity #blockchain #xinghuobif #digitalids #zetrix #zcert
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Zetrix brings digital ID verification to Chinese nationals abroad - The Malaysian blockchain is the international supernode operator of Chin... - https://cointelegraph.com/news/malaysian-zetrix-digital-id-verification-chinese-nationals-abroad #identityverification #malaysiablockchain #chinesedigitalid #globalidsolution #kycverification #digitalidentity #blockchain #xinghuobif #digitalids #zetrix #zcert
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Zetrix brings digital ID verification to Chinese nationals abroad - The Malaysian blockchain is the international supernode operator of Chin... - https://cointelegraph.com/news/malaysian-zetrix-digital-id-verification-chinese-nationals-abroad #identityverification #malaysiablockchain #chinesedigitalid #globalidsolution #kycverification #digitalidentity #blockchain #xinghuobif #digitalids #zetrix #zcert
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#DigitalIDs #Privacy #AgeVerification #DigitalRights: "mDLs and digital IDs are being deployed faster than states can draft privacy protections, including for presenting your ID to more third parties than ever before. While proponents of these digital schemes emphasize a convenience factor, these IDs can easily expand into new territories like controversial age verification bills that censor everyone. Moreover, digital ID is simultaneously being tested in sensitive situations, and expanded into a potential regime of unprecedented data tracking.
In the digital ID space, the question of “how can we do this right?” often usurps the more pertinent question of “should we do this at all?” While there are highly recommended safeguards for these new technologies, we must always support each person’s right to choose to continue using physical documentation instead of going digital. Also, we must do more to bring understanding and decision power over these technologies to all, over zealously promoting them as a potential equalizer."
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/09/digital-id-isnt-everybody-and-thats-okay
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#SocialMedia #DigitalIDs #IdentityManagement #IdentityVerification: "Social media platforms have always served as mediators between people’s online identities. This has been noted by countless scholars of early social media (including Zizi Papacharissi, Nicole Ellison, danah boyd, and Alice Marwick) who study identity and self-presentation online. Allison Hearn’s work on the verified badge has explored this symbol’s relationship to self-presentation and identity management, looking specifically at the role that platforms like Twitter have come to play within the “identity management and verification market.” Emily van der Nagel has explored this dimension of verification as identification, or rather the “confirmation that an account is linked to a particular person.” Work in this area often centers on the “real name policies” adopted by social media companies during the early-to-mid period of Web 2.0, and the issues these policies posed for privacy and freedom of expression. Perhaps the most famous of these conflicts — known as the “nymwars” — emerged from a battle between proponents of online pseudonymity and Google’s brief attempt at a social media network, Google+, which required that users provide their “real names.” (As danah boyd argued at the time, the ire was overly focused on Google, when Facebook also had a damaging real names policy.)
But to understand the verified badge — the blue check as it emerged as a symbol not only of how platforms mediate identity, but also of power and status, and where those concepts meet — we need to go back to a conflict just slightly earlier in the history of social media: the battle between Friendsters and Fakesters."
https://datasociety.net/points/a-working-history-of-the-verified-internet-2/
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The #WorkingClass is not going to win the #ClassWar
A blog post about #DigitalIDs, unemployment, how corporations are gaining more and more control of our lives, and how there is "so much apathy [and] lack of direction" from the left.
It's not a bad post from #CouncilEstateMedia -- who favours corporate-owned social media over the Fediverse ....
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🎙️ ✨ A new episode has been published on @ITSPmagazine
Show: The Other Society With @seanmartin and @Marcociappelli
Episode: Digital Ethics | Exploring Societal Impact
Guests: Kevin Macnish, Philip Brey, Olivia Gambelin, Letitia Adu-Ampoma
Podcast format: Video & Audio
Enjoy!
#digitalethics #privacy #cybersecurity #ethics #compliance #AI #digitalids #artificialintelligence #ethicalregulation #ethical
