EU chief calls for a bloc-wide push on an age verification app to protect children online. If enforced, users will have to prove their age to access legally restricted sites.
Hold on, hold the fuck on, is this bitch so stupid or is her English so bad that she didn’t understand what she said, i’ll use my ID or passport to verify my age without sharing personal data!!! BITCH THAT IS MY PERSONAL FUCKING DATA!!!
You don’t give it to a website, read the article ffs, you download an app and that is what will “verify” your age, they did a trial run during their Covid experiment and now comes version 2.0, which will most likely have a backdoor for surveillance.
And here’s the diagram straight from the EU design documentation.
Steps 1-2 are “You show your ID only to the central authority, which is your government.”
Steps 3-4 is “They then issue you a ticket that says “we verify this dude is 18””
Steps 5-8 is “and you give that to the website.”
Note especially step 3 - “The link between the user and provider is cut”. After that point, the provider can only tell the website that the ticket it valid, it cannot tell who it belongs to. So the website doesn’t know who you are, and the provider doesn’t know what website you are accessing. All they have is “Is adult: True.”
At the core it’s just a website, if you are able to get online to require an age check, you’ll be able to access the system to generate the tickets - aka, electronically signed certificates.
Hold on, hold the fuck on, is this bitch so stupid or is her English so bad that she didn’t understand what she said, i’ll use my ID or passport to verify my age without sharing personal data!!! BITCH THAT IS MY PERSONAL FUCKING DATA!!!
You show your ID only to the central authority, which is your government. Who gave that ID to you in the first place.
They then issue you a ticket that says “we verify this dude is 18”, and you give that to the website.
You don’t give it to a website, read the article ffs, you download an app and that is what will “verify” your age, they did a trial run during their Covid experiment and now comes version 2.0, which will most likely have a backdoor for surveillance.
And I tried to simplify how the system works for you, as you apparently don’t know anything about it all. Reading an article that doesn’t explain it is hardly going to help. Here’s the actual full statement the article is badly referencing.
And here’s the diagram straight from the EU design documentation.
Steps 1-2 are “You show your ID only to the central authority, which is your government.”
Steps 3-4 is “They then issue you a ticket that says “we verify this dude is 18””
Steps 5-8 is “and you give that to the website.”
Note especially step 3 - “The link between the user and provider is cut”. After that point, the provider can only tell the website that the ticket it valid, it cannot tell who it belongs to. So the website doesn’t know who you are, and the provider doesn’t know what website you are accessing. All they have is “Is adult: True.”
So this will exclude everyone without a (NFC capable?) phone from accessing social media or adult sites?? Absolutely insane.
At the core it’s just a website, if you are able to get online to require an age check, you’ll be able to access the system to generate the tickets - aka, electronically signed certificates.
[EDIT] Oh, and the phone app should AFAIK, work offline, kinda in the same way a 2FA code app does.
I guarantee you this will not work on Linux because they also want this to be an identity verification app.
You can read how it works here https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet and a decent summary here https://feddit.org/post/28546687/12555790