Comment on Online age-verification tools spread across U.S. for child safety, but adults are being surveilled

• undrwater@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

  This is how it works in Estonia?

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  • Kraiden@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

    Swap the convenience store for an app, and the ID for a digital cert, and ye basically!

    Any Estonians reading, please feel free to correct me

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    • undrwater@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

      What I like about the convenience store idea, is that the certification process is decentralized. An app wouldn’t be.

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      • lost_faith@lemmy.ca ⁨6⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        The store won’t keep a copy of your ID on a database to be inevitably hacked

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      • Kraiden@piefed.social ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        There is no technical reason it couldn’t be decentralized. It’s a file handed to you by a trusted issuer, like (not American, so guessing:) the dmv. From that point on it should all be local processing to generate the child certs. It doesn’t need to phone home until the credentials expire.

        Again, the implementation is the problem

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      • paraphrand@lemmy.world ⁨23⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

        If that ID is only verified by an underpaid store clerk, that means the system is already a nonstarter. That person is ripe for corruption.

        This sort of idea always rolls back up to the government being directly involved if you game it out.

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