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I don't think the primary concern with things like this is the porn companies having access to that information (though it is of course a concern, especially given that no organization is immune to hacking), but rather that the government would have access to people's porn consumption habits, which presents both the same hacking risks but also the risk that some future government that decided to go after, say, LGBT people would have information that could potentially be used to identify those people at scale. Plus the risk that some unscrupulous member of government could use the information to blackmail critics or political rivals.
Can't pretty much any government get that info today by just requiring ISPs to give them the identities of anyone who visited X site
This just gives them more avenues I suppose
Yea, but all that's going to do is give the IP of the household, anybody in the house could be looking at whatever
This will give them a concrete identity tie in to a specific person
And if it's over Wi-Fi they isn't strictly secured it's essentially impossible to tie it to anyone at all. It's why the average person doesn't need to be afraid of piracy. Oh and then there are vpns to bypass that even harder.
That defence might help if you find yourself standing in front of a jury... but porn is legal so that's never going to happen.
But for blackmail? Presumption of innocence won't help you in the slightest.
Fair