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Another internet law for people's "protection" that just happens to be implemented in the most surveillance-friendly way. There are ways to prove age that don't let anyone know your identity, but governments never choose them. Combine this with Bill C-22 and its a huge assault on internet privacy for Canadians.
Right? Like many years ago, maybe we didnt have effective technology to do it in a privacy focused way, but we do now. Any decision not to use these ways is a blatant power grab and intentional invasion of privacy.
This is, of course, their insane attempt to regulate access to information that will ultimately be the stepping stone they use to justify banning VPNs, computers without government controls, and so on.
to justify banning VPNs
Never going to happen. Businesses would be up in arms about this.
As far as I'm aware, anyone can set up a VPN through aws, which can then tunnel to whatever vpn, so they can't even really ban them, just disincentivize companies from openly operating. The UK seems to have given up on that particular avenue.
Anyone have a good guide on how to set one up like that, you know, for science
They absolutely can ban them by making VPN use to circumvent age restriction a criminal offence. That'll drop VPN use in the vast majority of cases, regardless of who provides the service - a corporation or DIY. They probably won't go that far, but who knows. Point is they can.
The imbalance becomes even more pronounced when weighing the law’s benefits against its harms. The harms are certain, immediate, and irreversible, as the verification infrastructure exposes millions of identity documents to providers largely beyond the reach of Canadian privacy law, a risk demonstrated by the Discord breach that leaked roughly 70,000 government-issued IDs last fall. Privacy alone may not decide the case, but the verification mandate is not only a privacy cost. A law that conditions access to social media for online expression by requiring proof of identity limits expression itself for Canadians of all ages. The benefits, by contrast, are speculative at best, given mounting data from Australia that suggests a ban is ineffective.
Protecting youth, made a law that protect no one, refuse to elaborate