[0] https://www.personalausweisportal.de/Webs/PA/EN/government/t..., https://www.bsi.bund.de/EN/Themen/Oeffentliche-Verwaltung/El...
In theory, every EU state will have to support this soon so users can use it to verify age privately online. Still work to do to roll this out for real, but the technological part is very much already happening and I think the rollout plan is committed.
Yes that's how it's done in France for instance, and generally how it's being discussed in the EU.
Most European country already have one, some are still testing theirs. They're required by the EU to make one accessible to their citizens by the end of this year, in the context of the eID project [0].
[0] https://commission.europa.eu/topics/digital-economy-and-soci...
You're kidding right?
In Russia we have gosuslugi.ru (state services), which nowadays requires 2FA and hasn't been compromised in any major way so far.
Among other things they provide a way for a third party to use it as identification service and a user chooses which data about himself he wants to share. No anonymity, though, and I don't see how it can be implemented so that the verification provider doesn't know which service is requiring age verification.
Also, yea, no anonymity is the problem. Why would you want your government to be able to track every single website you've ever visited -- especially considering we're talking about an autocratic regime?
I'm astonished at the naivety on display on a community called "Hacker news."
The state services are required to assist intelligence and law enforcement in lawful investigations, the intelligence don't need to compromise anything.
>Why would you want your government to be able to track every single website you've ever visited
I don't want anyone to track every single website I visited.
>considering we're talking about an autocratic regime
Glad you see the EU for what it is.
The problem is that verifying age requires disclosing your identity and the fact that you use a certain service. Whoever is the provider of such verification, it learns too much about you.
Is the state the worse choice for that than a commercial entity that has fewer resources to secure itself against hacking and might even sell the data itself?
I would rather not have age verification at all and glad there is no such thing in Russia (yet?).
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