Comment by defrost
13 days ago
> If you realize that people have been required to check ID when selling material unsuitable for minors in physical stores
Not a great example.
No physical store would bother to check the ID of anyone clearly not {too young or borderline}.
Digital ID requirements are such that age verification of some form is required for every single connection .. and to assume that a connection from {X} might well require another ID check an hour later as it might well be a different person at the same computer or another device altogether.
That's an expansion from {only check young looking people} to {check and possibly retain records for _everyone_}.
> No physical store would bother to check the ID of anyone clearly not {too young or borderline}.
Except where police cadets or paid informants go into stores to buy age-restricted goods. A convenience store near me got whacked with that recently, and now has a no-exceptions ID policy.
Check out zero trust proof standards
Edit: I'm not saying EU uses it but it could...
Let's assume I'm familiar with the theory, what pragmatic open verification exists for the implementation of this EU app?
Edit: the EU asserts the app is "privacy preserving" and "Additionally, work on the integration of zero-knowledge proofs is ongoing."
~ https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/news/commission-mak...
It's not the assertions made that trouble me, it's the quality of any actual implementation and the scope for deliberate or accidental side leaking of knowledge that should be zero .. but likely (in a pragmatic view of a political world) is not.
If it's coordinated by the browser then it would be possible to see what requests are made and where
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