Similar story with people claiming early victory on online age verification. A common claim is "web age verification can't work unless you're happy giving every

Similar story with people claiming early victory on online age verification. A common claim is "web age verification can't work unless you're happy giving every porn site your name and credit card". Clearly not true. Federated authentication is very old tech and the same techniques that allow you protect your identity with an Apple sign-in can also be used to allow sites to verify that the user is an adult with some goverment account, but nothing more. I agree that it would likely end up expensive and marred by beurocracy like most government IT projects, but at a technical level it's sound