Comment by jeroenhd
10 days ago
By design, this app isn't mandatory. There should be an alternative way to do age verification. If you can't access a service because you can't run the app, the service fucked up.
Furthermore, there's nothing stopping the governments implementing these standards from permitting GrapheneOS' signature. It's one of the ROMs that actually has a reliable signature so unlike random images from XDA there's a case for it to be permitted. Google's integrity check isn't just a binary check, it's a combination of a hash and a pre-defined list of suggested acceptable hashes.
> By design, this app isn't mandatory. There should be an alternative way to do age verification. If you can't access a service because you can't run the app, the service fucked up.
So you complain to the service, they either ignore you or tell you to use the app, and then what? They are not breaking any law as far as I can tell.
And even if it was, class actions in Europe are close to inexistent, and it's not worth it for any one consumer to take the multinational running the service to court.
> there's nothing stopping the governments implementing these standards from permitting GrapheneOS' signature
incompetence and/or not caring
Alternatives to legal identification requirements being available isn't my experience. How do you even imagine that? Going to a local post office to show an ID anytime you want to open pornhub and your i_am_adult=token cookie has expired?
Using the e-government log in to said adult website?
What e-government website? If there were one, I should hope they'd be using it instead of GDPR-flouting third parties that I've seen so far
If you mean something like DigiD, that's only for government websites themselves. A lot of water will need to flow past parliament before they open that one up to pornhub