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EU age verification app announced to protect children online (www.dw.com)
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[โ€“] Humanius@lemmy.world 149 points 2 weeks ago (46 children)

From my understanding this age verification app seems to be based on the age verification blueprint they have been working on for a while now, which is supposed to be part of the European "digital wallet"

https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/eu-age-verification

From my understanding it works as follows:

  • There will be a central "authority", with which you can identify
  • This authority will provide you with tokens indicating you are 18+ (or whatever age verfication you may need)
  • These tokens are stored locally, and contain no identifying information other than a simple "is this guy 18+?"
  • You can use these tokens to verify age with a website that requires age verification

This solution does seemingly address my two greatest concern with online age verficiation:

  • You cannot trust the website, so they only get the information they need. They don't get any identifiable information
  • You cannot trust the authority, so they don't get to know for which websites and for what reason you request 18+ tokens

Assuming that this blueprint is followed, it seems like a decent approach at online age verification.

[โ€“] Airfried@piefed.social 3 points 2 weeks ago

On one hand this is an elegant solution that is already in use in Germany for years, if companies want to implement it that is. But I think only Sony's Playstore uses it. Or so I have heard. No US company wants to use it and I am sure they will lobby to get more data from users than a token if this gets rolled out EU wide. I am skeptical about this.

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