Comment by lkuty
10 hours ago
This is exactly what I am feeling (the title, didn't read). I can't see why I would give a copy of my official id card or a picture of my face to a basic service on the Internet. Seriously ? They do not deserve it. Even my phone number is too much but well Google has it now.
Givin a copy of your ID card to a website? Damn. In my times, we didn't even use to provide our _real name_ to websites.
In fact, it was strongly recommended not to give out your real name on the internet.
I'll stand by my opinion that deeply integrating the internet into our daily lives instead of keeping as a "place you go" was a huge mistake.
Luckily it’s already possible to verify your age without actually giving out any data like your birthdate
And without having to trust that the government isn't keeping track of every request for age verification?
I'd be curious how that might work as I haven't yet seen a zero-trust age verification system.
The age verification proposal of the EU tries to do that, the government knows you used age verification (and I think the rough number of times you used it), but they don't know when or where you used it.
https://ageverification.dev/av-doc-technical-specification/d...
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See eg. BBS+[1]. Proofs that preserve anonymity are generated locally and neither the verifier nor issuer can determine the user based on these (in scenarios of non PII signals like age thresholds), while still allowing the verifier to validate it's issuer approved.
[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47231456
Not to a service that only accepts such data as proof.
Steam thinks I was born Jan 1, 1970. Not that I needed to lie when I did my age verification back 15 years ago, I just randomly scrolled the year down and selected one.
As the years have marched on, though, that "birthdate" becomes significantly closer to my real birthday.
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