cross-posted from: https://lemmy.ml/post/45206293
Brazil’s authoritarian age verification law became active this month. It won’t be implemented by GrapheneOS. Complying would require integrating a mandatory process for each user where a third party service checks government identification and confirms a match using the camera.
It doesn’t stop there. It would require keeping data for auditing and providing a token for connecting age verification checks by apps and websites to the data. The law is a privacy disaster and exposes minors to being exploited by leaking their age bracket to apps and websites.
GrapheneOS has no team members or operations in Brazil. São Paulo in Brazil is by far the biggest network hub within South America. Miami is also a major network hub for South America and is currently where our update server is for South America since it’s dramatically cheaper.
We have a tiny VPS in São Paulo for our ns1 anycast DNS and a second for our website/network services. It probably isn’t an issue and those can be removed if necessary. Santiago could be added for both instead but wouldn’t work very well as a replacement for having São Paulo.
There aren’t yet devices supporting GrapheneOS directly sold in South America. Brazil in particular has unusually high import duties/taxes which add up to around 100%. This has resulted in us not having a lot of users there but our Motorola partnership will start changing this.
People are going to have their personal info leaked by third party age verification services due to these laws. Children are going to be harmed by apps and websites changing their behavior to exploit them. It isn’t going to stop minors finding pornography if they want to find it.
Open source should be exempt from this law but the people making these laws are too stupid to know what that means and they want to know where kids are so they can kidnap them for their new rape island/ranch.
These laws should not exist in the first place. As OP suggested multiple times, it’s not about protecting kids, it’s about identifying everyone to everything they do online. No doubt so new tech can collect and sort and draw half baked conclusions from it all to give us secret social scores. That is what this is about.
If it was ever about protecting children, we would ban cars first. As they are the biggest (or one of in most countries) killers of school children old enough to be even looking for porn or whatever.
I have to respect them for this move.
I’m hesitant to switch to Android to try them out as you can’t return things in the country where I live, so if my finance and business apps don’t work, then I’m stuck with a phone I do not want.
Maybe once I have some surplus gash I can take the risk.
Thanks! That helps a lot. At first glance it appears my banking apps are all there. Last time I checked this list the country I live in wasn’t even on the list 😂
I’ll give this a more comprehensive look when the Motorola phones comes out with graphene
Why not start the OS swap process by assigning a new number to the Graphene phone or no number just wifi for now? This ensures your main phone will still work for work, while also allowing you to start hammering out any hangups with Graphene?! It truly seems like it’s just going to get more and more difficult to switch as time passes, so starting the process now could make a LOT of sense!
