From my understanding this age verification app seems to be based on the age verification blueprint they have been working on for a while now, which is supposed to be part of the European "digital wallet"

https://digital-strategy.ec.europa.eu/en/policies/eu-age-verification

From my understanding it works as follows:

• There will be a central "authority", with which you can identify
• This authority will provide you with tokens indicating you are 18+ (or whatever age verfication you may need)
• These tokens are stored locally, and contain no identifying information other than a simple "is this guy 18+?"
• You can use these tokens to verify age with a website that requires age verification

This solution does seemingly address my two greatest concern with online age verficiation:

• You cannot trust the website, so they only get the information they need. They don't get any identifiable information
• You cannot trust the authority, so they don't get to know for which websites and for what reason you request 18+ tokens

Assuming that this blueprint is followed, it seems like a decent approach at online age verification.

If they are so dead set on protecting children, I suggest starting with:

Gaza Strip and the West Bank (Palestine) Ukraine Sudan Myanmar Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) Syria Yemen Ethiopia Afghanistan Haiti Niger Mali Burkina Faso

Zuks wallet will do just fine in the mean time

bad title, this isnt about protecting kids online

Parents should protect children online.

The motives are irrelevant. This will destroy the internet as we know it and disempower citizens. I can't help but wonder if the empowerment LLMs may have to an individual is terrifying leaders into an authoritarian mindset, finally demanding to be able to know and track what we do online, everywhere we do it. This is about protecting their ability to rule, not children from harm.

Wrong. This is to violate everyone's rights and target children. This is fucking abhorrent and needs to be stopped.

How about being a fucking parent instead of letting the government do it?

Lotta internet users are going to suddenly be from outside the EU, just like the UK population suddenly all moved to the Netherlands after their own version of this.

I get my porn from illegal download sites that aren't interested in age-verification.

Like all Prohibition Policies, this is only going to push people toward more illegal outlets, which demonstrate more morality than the legal ones.

The pedophile class is tightening the noose

I don't use apps from official software installation sources. I will boycott any site or service that asks me for unnecessary information.

Ewww gross. Fuck age verification

If this is not the most crooked EU Comission ever, it's a pretty close second.

Welp, this was bound to happen, wasn't it? I'm pretty sure they're referring to this application, which I stumbled upon a while back. If I remember correctly, the app "allows" (or implicitly forces) the user to store a government issued identity: able to attest to an age-restricted website, whether or not the user is of age.

It does this, supposedly by "just" sharing an age-bracket with the website; but here's the kicker: the Union, in its generosity, has granted their citizens an in-app option, to withdraw this signal from the websites it has been provided to. What this means in practice, is the app storing one's government-issued identify, also ties back to every account requiring "age-verification"...

So now, every device containing the app, has the owner's government-issued identify on it, together with connections to every age-restricted service. And considering the apps are maintained by the Union, or member states (through their own implementations), creating a backdoor to the application's contents... I mean to "observe app usage", would be absolutely trivial.

Again, I've read it a while back, so some things might've changed, and my memory might be spotty; but I'm quite sure it's along the lines I've described.

It will help the pedophile class and Israeli backed oligarchs mass surveil us more effectively

Sure nothing wrong can result from that. /s

Oh this sounds good........ I missed reading the following essential requirements

• They achieved an unhackable system that also "air gaps" the information used to prove child ID from any external agent, including themselves
• So it will be pulled immediately if it fails or exposes any childs data
• Demonstrably withstands hacking? They have independent audit data?
• Clear accountability clearly laid out for data breaches, including criminal charges?
• Ministerial accountability?

https://video.twimg.com/amplify_video/2044718576485953536/vid/avc1/996x2160/hyLmEHaGr6DltAA6.mp4

Apparently it's already exposing sensitive user data and can be bypassed.

This has nothing to do with protecting children

Don't give palantir your biometrics

Unless I'm reading this incorrectly, this seems far more invasive than the California law.

to moniter political dissidents against the right wing to be exact, and may track women as well.

People keep saying that they verify your age at the super market and I keep trying to remember the last time that happened to me and I just cannot. Nor, for that matter, at bars or coffee shops (for after lunch chat chilling before returning for the afternoon stint).

It may just be my corner of the European Union being much more lax than others.

It's for the CHILDREN, you COMMIE!