What is interesting about the whole EU age verification app is that it sort of moves towards the original concept of Solid pods; aka you storing your own little data vaults instead of the services that use your data.
"The app lets you prove you are above a given age threshold without handing the requesting platform your name, document number, birth date, or anything else."
https://doriandiaconu.substack.com/p/eus-age-verification-app-zero-knowledge?triedRedirect=true
I'm still conflicted on the #EUverification app. Aside from the technical issues and Google dependency, I'm not a fan of the surveillance creep this introduces. But also, being childfree, I'm not exactly an expert on what kids need to be protected from.
I do see that the EU is trying to build the "least bad" option, #opensource and zero knowledge proof etc, but "which country you live in will shape how much of the privacy promise actually survives implementation" sounds *slightly* worrying.
@Gina very interesting thread: https://retro.social/@ajroach42/116420399535623526
@zipkid it is, thank you for sharing!
One of the comments summed up my unease as well: who gets to decide what is harmful? What if this becomes politically motivated?
> "So information about LGBTQ people, Black people, and global warming. There was a congress bill to block schools from buying "pornographic" books. The last line defined anything about transgender people as pornographic."
@Gina
The same people who are currently simply accepting that the content is harmless; of course there are dangers but they are not fundamentally _new_, and we solve it the same way we've always done it: by writing rules about what's allowed, and rules about how to object if the empowered ones make bad decisions.
Of course the details then become incredibly tricky and tedious to decide, but that's more manageable because it makes it a large number of small problems.
Also I think it's always better to explicitly have a right than to just get away with acting like you have it: currently there's not really much formal protection for LGTB status information in many parts of the world, just the fact you'll have to offer Google very good money to get it.
@zipkid
