Honestly, I’d rather see official governmental third parties that handle ID verification and guarantees to discord and any service needing age verification that the user is over 18. Not comfortable with sharing any sort of verifying data with private companies, even less american companies. I have to for some stuff, but… Not liking it a bit.
There is already a few countries here in Europe with an official governmental identity verification system, and I’m pretty sure age verification can be done through them. I think the EU is also working on a system covering the entirety of Europe, but not certain.
Quicky@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
The difficulty you might end up with there is governments not permitting their age verification system for certain sites if they desired. Meaning even greater governmental control of what sites you can access.
iglou@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Well then the site uses a different system that complies with regulations. I don’t see this as a problem, it doesn’t have to be the only service that can verify your age.
Quicky@piefed.social 3 weeks ago
Which is essentially where we are now. Multiple services providing age verification.
iglou@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Yeah, but I’d rather have the option of a government one than yet another rando company with my sensitive data :)