Protecting children online is crucial, but forcing every user to hand over their ID is a privacy nightmare waiting to happen, according to the head of the Swiss privacy firm
  • iknewitwhenisawit@fedinsfw.appEnglish
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    11 hours ago

    I looked at the technology used by the EU age verification.

    You prove your age to the app by scanning the NFC in your passport. No government servers exist.

    When a site requests your age, you return only a “yes I’m older than 18”, proven by your passport. Not your age, just that you’re older.

    I think it preserves privacy pretty well.

    I don’t think that it will protect children, but I do think that it preserves privacy.