In your experience are people aware that the under-16 social media ban will result in mandatory ID checks for ADULTS on certain sites?

CatsWhiskas.

I don't think it's difficult.

For others this is what I understand:
You download a secure ID app.
You scan your real passport or ID card or whatever, and take a quick face scan to prove it's you.
The app verifies you are a match, checks your birth year, and deletes your ID photo from its system

Instead of saving your ID, the app creates a "token" and saves that inside a secure chip on your phone or wherever (I think this is the same place where Apple Pay or Google Wallet stores credit cards info).
​The "token" is a string of numbers with hidden code/rule as part of the maths of the numbers. It basically can say this person was or wasn't over 18 (say)

When thd person opens Facebook or TikTok , (say) the app asks: "Are you old enough?" And your phone’s secure chip handles the request.
It takes that mathematical token, runs calculation, and sends a code back to Facebook by way of reply.

I know you looked this up but others may not have done so and I don't think it's particularly difficult.

Facebook’s computer checks the code. Because of how the math is set up, the code tells Facebook exactly one thing - is the person old enough - yes or no.

If we don't want to do it we can choose to opt out of social media.
I have opted out of many things!

NotSpaghetti

CatsWhiskas.

I don't think it's difficult.

For others this is what I understand:
You download a secure ID app.
You scan your real passport or ID card or whatever, and take a quick face scan to prove it's you.
The app verifies you are a match, checks your birth year, and deletes your ID photo from its system

Instead of saving your ID, the app creates a "token" and saves that inside a secure chip on your phone or wherever (I think this is the same place where Apple Pay or Google Wallet stores credit cards info).
​The "token" is a string of numbers with hidden code/rule as part of the maths of the numbers. It basically can say this person was or wasn't over 18 (say)

When thd person opens Facebook or TikTok , (say) the app asks: "Are you old enough?" And your phone’s secure chip handles the request.
It takes that mathematical token, runs calculation, and sends a code back to Facebook by way of reply.

I know you looked this up but others may not have done so and I don't think it's particularly difficult.

Facebook’s computer checks the code. Because of how the math is set up, the code tells Facebook exactly one thing - is the person old enough - yes or no.

If we don't want to do it we can choose to opt out of social media.
I have opted out of many things!

That doesn’t sound too bad 👍🏻

I don't have a passport. I don't have an ID card. When I vote, I can use my bus pass, but I doubt that would be acceptable on sites such as Facebook. I do have a driving licence (although I don't drive, I will not be renewing it and the photo on it is ancient) but when I was asked for ID on a site (Google?) I tried using the camera on my laptop to take a pic of the licence - which had to be within the "box" and legible I couldn't get it "in the box" and anyway it came out in mirror writing, so I was informed I would be unable to search for "adult" stuff.

Inbuilt laptop cameras really aren't suitable for such things. I have no other option. Will Gransnet need to ask for proof of age, I wonder? If so, it is Goodbye from me.

Well, after my recent experience on an HMRC site I won’t be allowed on anything! No need for me to worry.

Tell us more! Start a new thread perhaps?