How are you supposed to abuse the data of people that you can’t even identify…?
What if I told you that’ by regulation, the EU age verification system has to be anonymous and that it’s only the AUKUS countries that are moving forward in a way where anonymity is “a nice to have”.
Denmark’s system, which is a front-runner implementation in the EU, is going to be fully ZKP.
ChaoticEntropy@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
eah@programming.dev 3 weeks ago
Anyone have a more in-depth technical description of how that works? I’m interested.
linule@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
That sounds great. I don’t follow the topic closely (probably I should), so wasn’t aware of these developments. This should be brought up in all discussions about age verification, so everyone knows there are better options.
sunbeam60@feddit.uk 3 weeks ago
Ultimately someone has to vouch for “yes, this person is 18+”. People can’t self-attest, except through crappy biometric, so at some point a government ID has to be involved.
I’d trust my government over a credit reference agency that literally makes revenue from selling access to your private data.
linule@lemmy.world 3 weeks ago
Yes, and governments, at least democratic ones, represent the interests of their people, so at least on paper this is the correct way to structure things. Then you use the channels to government to ensure it’s regulated properly. If there’s no trust here, there’s a larger problem.
ageedizzle@piefed.ca 3 weeks ago
Except in practice the Snowden leaks show us that democratic governments don’t always have our best interests at heart when it comes to this domain