The German ID card can do this, not the passport. Just checked because I would love to use this feature. My ID card chip is broken. Gotta wait till renewal then.
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uniquethrowagay@feddit.org 1 month ago
The German passport (and I’m sure many others) has a NFC chip in it and you can use it with an open source app to securely prove your identity online. In cases like this, the only information pulled from your ID would be “over 18” or “not over 18”.
It’s one of the few things my government did right in the digital space. And yet almost nobody in the private sector uses this. I’m tired of being asked to upload a photo of my ID for age verification.
MissyBee@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
uniquethrowagay@feddit.org 1 month ago
Yeah that was the language barrier speaking. ID of course. You know you can get a new card at your local Einwohnermeldeamt (for a fee)?
GutterRat42@lemmy.world 1 month ago
Is that a German word, or do we need to call an emergency neurologist for you?
nekbardrun@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I don’t think we need to call a notfallneurologe for that person.
uniquethrowagay@feddit.org 1 month ago
Fun fact: Einwohnermeldeamt is the shortest German word beside “Ja”, “Nein” and “Wadenbeinfraktur”
MissyBee@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 month ago
Yeah, cost-benefit ratio is not sufficient. I will wait for next year till renewal.
themachinestops@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
Never knew about this. This might be the only age verification I am okay with.
scoutfdt@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 month ago
What’s the apps name?
uniquethrowagay@feddit.org 1 month ago
It’s called AusweisApp:
Takios@discuss.tchncs.de 1 month ago
Of course they don’t use it. They want your data, not just your age. As long as the government does not make using ID this way for age verification mandatory*, companies will continue to use processes that give them the most data that they can sell.
*: As in not making verification mandatory but if a company wants to do it they must to it this way
uniquethrowagay@feddit.org 1 month ago
Our (privatized) mail service offers an identification process to third parties where you either walk into a post office with your physical ID card or you make a video call with a call center and show it to them. I don’t think they transmit any more data than “over 18 yes/no”. So while data hording might often be the reason, I don’t think it’s the only one ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
General_Effort@lemmy.world 1 month ago
I heard that the reason why no one uses the ID card option is that the privatized post office lobbied the government to make it so expensive as not to compete with their service.
sqgl@sh.itjust.works 1 month ago
In Australia digital ID is not mandatory (though the government tried to make it so).
We were the first with these adult filters.
I don’t know if a system similar to Germany was proposed but there is a security problem with having all our data collated on a government server.