They wouldn’t see what sites you give the tokens to — unless those sites choose to phone home, for some reason.
- You log in to the government site
- You ask for a token to prove your age/gender/whatever
- You copy the token
- You go to the age/gender-restricted site
- You provide the token
- The restricted site asks the government site how to verify any arbitrary token (but doesn’t mention your specific token)
- The restricted site verifies the token
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
If I had to choose between a government and a private entity to store my personal governmental records (e.g. age and name), I’d 100% choose the government first.
hcbxzz@lemmy.world 2 days ago
easy to say, but that depends entirely on the government and company doesn’t it?
Mistic@lemmy.world 2 days ago
Any government already has all of that information, so, no.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
I assume OP actually meant the additional info the government can get from where I authenticate with my goverment ID to a company.
Hypothecial situation: You wanna buy a sex toy.
If the goverment does store where and what you buy, they could punish you by withholding services.
And they might not say why and give a bs excuse or send you on a goose hunt to do more paperwork.
You can suspect that but probably never proof that it was the case.
Appoxo@lemmy.dbzer0.com 2 days ago
As always life is complicated.
I am talking about my personal situation.
^(Do I really need to put a disclaimer to all posts, that mentions all comments are from my own view and might no apply to every situation in every country?)
OmegaLemmy@discuss.online 2 days ago
In turkey, the government stores data words than the company. I can be doxxed just by giving you hints of which city I live in. It’s bad