This is the first part of a three-part series about age verification in the European Union. In this blog post, we give an overview of the political debate around age verification and explore the age verification proposal introduced by the European Commission, based on digital identities. Part two...

The UN Convention on the Rights of the Child clearly expresses that minors have rights to freedom of expression and access to information online, as well as the right to privacy.

These rights would be steamrolled by age verification requirements.

  • nomad@infosec.pubEnglish
    5·
    10 hours ago

    It security engineer here: zero knowledge proofs are exactly that. Proof your age isg higher than X, but not even how much higher. They can’t even profile you based on that information as they can’t recognize you across visits.

    Some government identity cards already support that. For everybody else there are companies that offer that service.

    BTW I’m against age verification. We had access to porn at a certain age, I want my children to be able to look when that gets interesting to them. But then again I’m pretty progressive and open with sexuality in general and I take time out of my day to actually talk to my kids about dangers on the internet.

    • kbal@fedia.io
      3·
      8 hours ago

      If I search for zero-knowledge proofs relating to age verification the only thing I see is the hash chain method “based on a 2013 paper by Angel & Walfish” which is clever enough but does not in itself solve the problem of proving age while maintaining one’s privacy. It allows Alice to demonstrate to a verifier that she is over the age of 65 while revealing nothing else other than her name or some other identifying piece of information. Avoiding the reveal of any such information is what we would want to avoid.

      Is there some better way to do it?

      • nomad@infosec.pubEnglish
        3·
        6 hours ago

        You only need to prove the number in your government id is greater that the required. Number. The number is signed by the government CA

        • freeman@feddit.orgEnglish
          12·
          5 hours ago

          Any reasonable government doesnt gove out ascending number-IDs, Right??!