If there is a technical solution, I would be genuinely interested. Maybe something with zero knowledge proofs. But you would have to enforce it on every website and platform. It would have to be at th...
First things first: This kind of age verification should only be applicable to large mainstream websites/services. Because tiny ones won't have the people nor money to perform real age verifications, lest alone can be trusted to keep any private data in security (not even big ones for that matter, but at least we can fine those).
The second part is that exist ZERO reasons for any of those websites getting hold of your private data. What is requested is the age range. Meaning for example to be above 15 years.
For a healthy and sane tech solution to happen: local governments and trusted organizations inside those countries (e.g. post offices) can identify themselves as such and testify that a given user is indeed above the requested age level without need to provide anything from the user itself. This means no name, no pictures, no ID documents given to foreign sites.
And you ask yourself, why the government? In an ideal world the government doesn't really need to know either where you login or where you keep your accounts. It is technically feasible for either parties to sign a file where this age verification is assured by the government without needing to know to where it was asked. And I don't mean large governments, I mean doing this on the town hall level or post office across your street which can identify themselves as trustworthy verifiers.
Technically this is easy, possible, even doable digitally on the countries where this deeper age verification is really required.
But this is not the ideal world. Both the megacorp has interest to snatch your government issued ID details, as much as governments are curious to know which usernames you use on which websites.
Those are my two cents on the topic and this is exactly how it is going to be implemented on geogram where the jurisdictions forces such controls in place.
The second part is that exist ZERO reasons for any of those websites getting hold of your private data. What is requested is the age range. Meaning for example to be above 15 years.
For a healthy and sane tech solution to happen: local governments and trusted organizations inside those countries (e.g. post offices) can identify themselves as such and testify that a given user is indeed above the requested age level without need to provide anything from the user itself. This means no name, no pictures, no ID documents given to foreign sites.
And you ask yourself, why the government? In an ideal world the government doesn't really need to know either where you login or where you keep your accounts. It is technically feasible for either parties to sign a file where this age verification is assured by the government without needing to know to where it was asked. And I don't mean large governments, I mean doing this on the town hall level or post office across your street which can identify themselves as trustworthy verifiers.
Technically this is easy, possible, even doable digitally on the countries where this deeper age verification is really required.
But this is not the ideal world. Both the megacorp has interest to snatch your government issued ID details, as much as governments are curious to know which usernames you use on which websites.
Those are my two cents on the topic and this is exactly how it is going to be implemented on geogram where the jurisdictions forces such controls in place.
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