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.
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.”
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.”