> The alternative would be, for example, to request ID verification when signing up for a freaking TikTok account What's wrong with this? When I buy booze in G

> The alternative would be, for example, to request ID verification when signing up for a freaking TikTok account What's wrong with this? When I buy booze in Germany on Amazon for example this is already how it works, you verify your age with your national ID (which has support for a "eID" schema). The big advantage is that the dedicated company doing the processing is by law required to delete all data after verification, so no commercial third party actually ever gets or can sell your identification data. That's way more secure and private than handing TikTok or other foreign companies your means of identification. We would be living in a vastly more secure world if random companies only ever got a yes/no that you initiate by a dedicated, audited actor on your soil. And it basically eliminates fraud as well.