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by EmbarrassedHelp 7mo ago
https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/av-doc-technic... https://www.forbes.com/sites/federicoguerrini/2025/08/10/who...
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by EmbarrassedHelp 7mo ago
I bet that the Chat Control lobbyist groups are involved to some degree, as they tried to require age verification in Chat Control before it was shot down. They probably haven't given up after that defeat.
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by EmbarrassedHelp 7mo ago
You are missing the profit driven angle. Age verification companies and their lobbyists are pouring massive amounts of resources into lobbying for mandatory age verification. And the reason why can be pretty simple. They get richer of off v
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by EmbarrassedHelp 7mo ago
Only in theory, and only if you blindly trust a third party. The implementations in practice are still massive privacy violations.
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by EmbarrassedHelp 7mo ago
Age verification tech companies are lobbying heavily for governments to legally require their services. The proposed "solutions" are about funneling money into the hands of other tech companies and shady groups, while violating us
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by EmbarrassedHelp 7mo ago
If you dig into the CEO of the The Age Verification Providers Association (AVPA), he has spent years going out of his way to spam pro-age verification propaganda across random sites like Techdirt and Michael Geist's blog. Its not unrea
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by EmbarrassedHelp 7mo ago
You are missing the age/ID verification tech companies, who profit from violating privacy here. They have a strong incentive to try and convince/trick governments into legally requiring their services.
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by EmbarrassedHelp 7mo ago
We should be banning groups from collecting age related information, and not requiring it. And we definitely should not be forcing companies to share that information with third parties.
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by EmbarrassedHelp 7mo ago
Until sex, sexuality, and sexual fantasies no longer have any potential stigma associated with them, any sort of verification to view mature content is unacceptable. That sort information can permanently destroy peoples lives.
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by EmbarrassedHelp 7mo ago
Zero knowledge proofs are only private and anonymous in theory, and require you to blindly trust a third party. In practice the implementation is not anonymous or private.
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by EmbarrassedHelp 7mo ago
That solution still violates user privacy. A better solution would be a simple "minor" flag that is only included on the devices of minors. No third party verification required for adults.
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by EmbarrassedHelp 7mo ago
There is no such thing as anonymous age verification in practice.
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by EmbarrassedHelp 7mo ago
According to the EU Identity Wallet's documentation, the EU's planned system requires highly invasive age verification to obtain 30 single use, easily trackable tokens that expire after 3 months. It also bans jailbreaking/roo
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by EmbarrassedHelp 7mo ago
This will be expanded to cover everything on the service soon enough. The time to cancel Nitro and move to other platforms that respect user privacy is now.