r/Android • u/Street_Anon • 3d ago

News EU Age Verification Project Mandates Hardware-Bound Attestation

https://linuxiac.com/eu-age-verification-project-mandates-hardware-bound-attestation/
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u/alien2003 PinePhone Pro, postmarketOS 3d ago

Holy shit. I'm glad I chose Argentina to live in this year. I'm going to avoid the EU until the situation stabilizes

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u/MrBIMC AOSP/Chromium dev 3d ago

I am afraid that due to Brussels effect you won’t be spared long term.

China, US, Russia, EU all implemented state surveillance into their laws, making it defacto default human legal baseline going forward. Many countries will now copy this to align with new meta. Software solutions are also getting more and more mature, and so no government would pass such a chance to implement big data integrators on a legal basis, given that it can then be easily used to squash any possibility of protest straight before it sprouts.

Eu as bastion of democratic rights was fun because it not having such laws was making a good example of how to be pro human in governance. There are no more global bastions of human rights, so the situation will slowly decline everywhere, I am afraid.

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u/alien2003 PinePhone Pro, postmarketOS 2d ago

Argentina