EU chief calls for a bloc-wide push on an age verification app to protect children online. If enforced, users will have to prove their age to access legally restricted sites.
You dont have your id printed on every cigarette. The government doesnt dilute the alcohol with unique radiomarkers to track your piss (yet). Firearms tracking is nowhere near this comprehensive or invasive anywhere in the world. Not even on military ranges. Cinema tickets? Really?
Qnd as pointed elsewhere: you font need to show ID if youre just buyong pink monster vegan jerky condoms and new usb cable for your fav sex toy.
But have you read the EU standard? Anonymity is a requirement. There is no tracking. The age check does not refer back to you. Indeed, it cannot.
You can of course believe that the legal requirements aren’t adhered to and that the state is actually lying, but if you believe that the state already has a million ways to track you, including 99.9999% of us who carry our phones around with us and pay with credit cards in physical stores.
You dont have your id printed on every cigarette. The government doesnt dilute the alcohol with unique radiomarkers to track your piss (yet). Firearms tracking is nowhere near this comprehensive or invasive anywhere in the world. Not even on military ranges. Cinema tickets? Really?
Qnd as pointed elsewhere: you font need to show ID if youre just buyong pink monster vegan jerky condoms and new usb cable for your fav sex toy.
But have you read the EU standard? Anonymity is a requirement. There is no tracking. The age check does not refer back to you. Indeed, it cannot.
You can of course believe that the legal requirements aren’t adhered to and that the state is actually lying, but if you believe that the state already has a million ways to track you, including 99.9999% of us who carry our phones around with us and pay with credit cards in physical stores.