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Norwegian government to set 15-year age limit for using social media (www.euractiv.com)
submitted 3 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/technology
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[–] virku 6 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

Most kids here in Norway get a bank account with debet card and BankID with it at 13. Implementing a solution to use it to verify if you are older than X years old would actually be less work than your proposed solution, both for the social media site, banks, the kids and the parents.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I would be very much against tying my social media accounts to a government services one. I know it can be correlated if needed, but the government automatically neatly having this information all in one place? No thanks, it's outright dangerous.

[–] virku 1 points 3 weeks ago

Yeah, I wouldn't want my account tied to my bankid either. But bankid could easily make an age verification that wasn't tied to accounts.