Teenagers in the industrial city of Newcastle, north of Sydney, speak out against the Labor government’s legislation to bar them from accessing social media platforms.
I feel like the real reason for the social media ban is to establish some kind of digital ID program and requiring that ID for everything a person does online. That makes it possible to curate not only where you can go online, but what you see when you get there. It is being sold as a way to “protect the children” but the reality is the children are the target audience. Children don’t have many preconceived notions about privacy, so violating their privacy will be so much easier.
Remember, in just a few years these “children” will be adults and any changes made for them today will eventually become the normal for everyone.
Australia has digital ID since 2019 so no. Digital ID has nothing to do with it. UK doesn’t have digital ID but requires identification online. Many other countries do have digital ID but don’t require it anywhere online. Please stop using “digital ID” as some scary thing government will create to track people. It already exists and it’s not what it’s used for.
The Netherlands has had digital ID (DigiD) since 2005 or something. It’s basically just a government account that allows you to do official stuff online, like your tax returns. You’re not forced to use or even have a DigiD, but it does make some things easier because you can do all your government business online in stead of filling out papers or having to visit actual buildings.
Sadly I can’t use mine at the moment, because I switched phone numbers when I moved to another country and forgot to change it, and now my multi-step verification won’t work and I’d have to go there to ID myself in person to reactivate it. :p
Edit: Was curious so looked it up. DigiD has existed in the Netherlands since 2003, though the name was changed to DigiD in 2004.
In Spain we just have a SHA-256 certificate signed by the government certification authority. You can download a file but you also have it on your ID. The file can be imported into Firefox and used for authentication on government websites. You can also sign documents with it and it’s a valid, legal signature.
I feel like the real reason for the social media ban is to establish some kind of digital ID program and requiring that ID for everything a person does online. That makes it possible to curate not only where you can go online, but what you see when you get there. It is being sold as a way to “protect the children” but the reality is the children are the target audience. Children don’t have many preconceived notions about privacy, so violating their privacy will be so much easier.
Remember, in just a few years these “children” will be adults and any changes made for them today will eventually become the normal for everyone.
Australia has digital ID since 2019 so no. Digital ID has nothing to do with it. UK doesn’t have digital ID but requires identification online. Many other countries do have digital ID but don’t require it anywhere online. Please stop using “digital ID” as some scary thing government will create to track people. It already exists and it’s not what it’s used for.
The Netherlands has had digital ID (DigiD) since 2005 or something. It’s basically just a government account that allows you to do official stuff online, like your tax returns. You’re not forced to use or even have a DigiD, but it does make some things easier because you can do all your government business online in stead of filling out papers or having to visit actual buildings.
Sadly I can’t use mine at the moment, because I switched phone numbers when I moved to another country and forgot to change it, and now my multi-step verification won’t work and I’d have to go there to ID myself in person to reactivate it. :p
Edit: Was curious so looked it up. DigiD has existed in the Netherlands since 2003, though the name was changed to DigiD in 2004.
In Spain we just have a SHA-256 certificate signed by the government certification authority. You can download a file but you also have it on your ID. The file can be imported into Firefox and used for authentication on government websites. You can also sign documents with it and it’s a valid, legal signature.