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.

  • kbal@fedia.io
    3·
    1 day 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·
      1 day 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
        13·
        23 hours ago

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