In Russia we have gosuslugi.ru (state services), which nowadays requires 2FA and hasn't been compromised in any major way so far.
Among other things they provide a way for a third party to use it as identification service and a user chooses which data about himself he wants to share. No anonymity, though, and I don't see how it can be implemented so that the verification provider doesn't know which service is requiring age verification.
You seriously think Russia's state services are not compromised by intelligence?
Also, yea, no anonymity is the problem. Why would you want your government to be able to track every single website you've ever visited -- especially considering we're talking about an autocratic regime?
I'm astonished at the naivety on display on a community called "Hacker news."
>You seriously think Russia's state services are not compromised by intelligence?
The state services are required to assist intelligence and law enforcement in lawful investigations, the intelligence don't need to compromise anything.
>Why would you want your government to be able to track every single website you've ever visited
I don't want anyone to track every single website I visited.
>considering we're talking about an autocratic regime
Glad you see the EU for what it is.
The problem is that verifying age requires disclosing your identity and the fact that you use a certain service. Whoever is the provider of such verification, it learns too much about you.
Is the state the worse choice for that than a commercial entity that has fewer resources to secure itself against hacking and might even sell the data itself?
I would rather not have age verification at all and glad there is no such thing in Russia (yet?).
"hacked", such a shame what happened in the background; it was a teenager who saw some url like "view_my_id_documents?id=1234" and just incremented the number, and could download the documents of other people (did on dozens of millions).
Why?
In Russia we have gosuslugi.ru (state services), which nowadays requires 2FA and hasn't been compromised in any major way so far.
Among other things they provide a way for a third party to use it as identification service and a user chooses which data about himself he wants to share. No anonymity, though, and I don't see how it can be implemented so that the verification provider doesn't know which service is requiring age verification.
You seriously think Russia's state services are not compromised by intelligence?
Also, yea, no anonymity is the problem. Why would you want your government to be able to track every single website you've ever visited -- especially considering we're talking about an autocratic regime?
I'm astonished at the naivety on display on a community called "Hacker news."
>You seriously think Russia's state services are not compromised by intelligence?
The state services are required to assist intelligence and law enforcement in lawful investigations, the intelligence don't need to compromise anything.
>Why would you want your government to be able to track every single website you've ever visited
I don't want anyone to track every single website I visited.
>considering we're talking about an autocratic regime
Glad you see the EU for what it is.
The problem is that verifying age requires disclosing your identity and the fact that you use a certain service. Whoever is the provider of such verification, it learns too much about you.
Is the state the worse choice for that than a commercial entity that has fewer resources to secure itself against hacking and might even sell the data itself?
I would rather not have age verification at all and glad there is no such thing in Russia (yet?).
These already exist in several eu countries. Imagine that there are governments that is not America and that actually work.
Just this year, France government ID system hacked: https://www.biometricupdate.com/202604/french-govt-confirms-...
"hacked", such a shame what happened in the background; it was a teenager who saw some url like "view_my_id_documents?id=1234" and just incremented the number, and could download the documents of other people (did on dozens of millions).
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