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Comment by throwaway473825

6 months ago

It depends on the implementation. The EU's European Digital Identity Wallet will allow users to prove that they are over 18 without sharing any other personal information.

Anonymous means you can pay someone $2 to use theirs.

  • Surely that's solved easily by ensuring a 1:1 association between the proof of age and account?

    • So, that's not anonymous then. Because it allows tracking across multiple accounts, some of which are associated with your name. An unchanging proof of age is pretty much just another name for a government ID number.

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    • Grandpa isn't interested in Discord, so you can open a second account using his Proof of Age. Maybe a third account, using Uncle Ned's. And a fourth account, using...

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