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Spain introduces porn passport to stop kids from watching smut (www.politico.eu)

submitted 4 months ago by Salix@sh.itjust.works to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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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

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[–] Canary9341@lemmy.ml 6 points 4 months ago (1 children)

(it doesn’t tie your identity to the content you’re viewing, only the use of your credits)

The website can't know this, but the government can easily (and I bet will) link an identity to a token, and know where and when it is used. It can also request metadata on usage of a token, which websites will no doubt want to store.

That the government can track this sort of thing is bad enough, but I'm especially concerned that it or both parties will leak/share/sell their databases, allowing anyone to do the same.

[–] Ilandar@aussie.zone 2 points 4 months ago

Why do you assume they will? From the design document it sounds like that's not how it will work. You mentioned data leaks but it sounds like there is no history log to leak.