EU Is Rolling Out an Online Age Verification App That Could Become the Global Blueprint

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• BrikoX@lemmy.zip ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  China level of surveilance is coming to EU. Scary times.

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  • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Bingo.

    It’s what all governments have been trying to do for decades.

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  • linule@lemmy.world ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    It’s not? I’ve not checked in depth yet, but it’s supposed to be privacy protecting, via cryptographic proofs. Also, it’s open source.

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  • Flaqueman@sh.itjust.works ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    You haven’t read the article. It shows

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• troed@fedia.io ⁨10⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Since absolutely no one has studied the tech before commenting.

  It's:

  • Open source
  • Privacy protecting

  Carry on.

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• Doomsider@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Social media bad for kids but good for adults? Who the fuck are they trying to fool.

  I would gladly trade all social media for no age verification.

  We have a social media problem, not an age verification one.

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• terabyterex@lemmy.world ⁨21⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  I was starting to switch iver all my services to european based ones but thry actually might do this worse. At least in the us congress people will fight about it forever (or at leadt they used to)

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  • Doomsider@lemmy.world ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Self hosting is the only real solution apparently, anything else gives power to corporations/governments to abuse.

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    • terabyterex@lemmy.world ⁨17⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Yeah i will use nextcloud but i am hosting it myself

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  • artyom@piefed.social ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Its only a matter of time before they get Chat Control as well.

    Nowhere is safe anymore.

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    • Malyca@lemmy.zip ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      Outside is!

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  • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafe ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    And it’s a lot harder to effectively enforce or combine with other services, such as ID, etc, because 50 states.

    Fed can only do so much, and it only takes one state fighting it to cause it to fail or at least become bogged down.

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• RumorsOfLove@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨19⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Zero-knowledge proof means that the app could actually be private. Seriously, this could be used for good.

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  • BrikoX@lemmy.zip ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Experts that EU chooses to ignore disagree.

    • Zero Knowledge Proofs Alone Are Not a Digital ID Solution to Protecting User Privacy
    • The limits of zero-knowledge for age-verification

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    • ulu_mulu@lemmy.zip ⁨13⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

      I’m EU and we already have digital IDs in most countries, manged by our governments and mandatory to access government and public administrations websites.

      These IDs don’t let websites collect more info that they already can without any IDs at all. If you think you’re protected form Meta/Google/Microsoft/whatever profiling you, your IP, geo-locating you if you use a phone, just because they don’t have your ID, I have a bridge to sell you.

      That’s not to say this thing is good, age-verification is bad and dangerous, they should educate people instead, both kids and parents. But having governments manage your ID is much less evil than giving it to private companies or baking it into an operating system.

      It all comes down on how they implement this app, and the code being opensource is a good thing.

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  • LodeMike@lemmy.today ⁨18⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    Nope! This is cryptographically impossible. See Signals sealed sender. It only works because Signal doesn’t keep a map between account and the certs.

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  • fluffykittycat@slrpnk.net ⁨12⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

    No it won’t

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