Comment by littlecranky67
15 days ago
The EU is working on a actual privacy-preserving initiative [0] that allows owners of ID wallets to verify their age, without their actual age or personal data being transmitted. The standard and reference implementations are open source on GitHub. Yet everybody screams uploading IDs and total government surveillance.
[0]: https://ec.europa.eu/digital-building-blocks/sites/spaces/EU...
Dear littlecranky67, as overseer for your digital wallet, I am happy to inform you that the owner of the discord server kinkydwarfporn doesn't know who you are and your privacy is protected.
Signed your friendly EU official.
As long as someone in the chain is able to physically connect the dots it is game over for privacy.
Your comment assumes there is an "overseer". There is not. Guys, read the technical documents. It is all standardized and open-source. I can code my own wallet.
>Тhe EUDI Wallet notifies the user of a pending request to prove their age, including: the name and identity of the requesting party.
>She consents to share the requested info and her wallet uses verifiable credentials issued by a trusted authority (e.g., national civil registry) to generate a cryptographic proof that she meets the age requirement.
I am fairly sure that here is enough info to be deanonimized by the authorities issuing the EUDI and the wallet app developers.
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The same EU that is trying to backdoor every messaging app to "protect the children" TM? I 'll use their ID system on my dead body.
Yes, that EU. It's very big. The left hand doesn't know what the right hand is doing.
This is just pointless whataboutism. There are smart devs and crypto experts designing a sound, privacy-friendly system that is open source. It does what is supposed to do and how everybody would want it to be implemented. Yet people reject it on irrational grounds for whatever negative aspect they associate the EU with.
No matter how open source something is, as long as you can only run it on a non-rooted Google or Apple device, and it’s hardcoded with remote attestation features exclusive to these two platforms, it suddenly isn’t much better than a bro asking you to trust him.
Btw the other guy has a point, by definition you can’t support both privacy and something that obliterates it.
It's funny how pointing a fact is called whataboutism.
You trust the EU's pinky promise a keep their word that your ID will be safe and secure and never tied to what you say, the content of your messages or who you send them to. If that is so, then go ahead and use it. That's your business.
> whatever negative aspect
The EU literally wants to read your personal messages because it doesn't trust that you are not some criminal in disguise. Instead of the state having to prove that you are criminal breaking the law, it wants to read everything you send and store the data permanently in case you break the law one day. If you think that is acceptable and that is an entity that can be trusted, then I don't know what to tell you.
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