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What is the gold standard for age verification online? Is there one? I could take my ID to the library / police station, have it verified, and then get given

What is the gold standard for age verification online? Is there one? I could take my ID to the library / police station, have it verified, and then get given a USB stick with 16GB’s worth of signed government tokens from a big bucket of unmarked hardware. I guess a bad site could still narrow down who I am to my nearest library / police station though. Proof-of-age tokens that aren’t tied to my ID have the downside that they are transferable. Kind of like a case of beer is transferable from an adult to a child. Is there a better way of keeping are-you-old-enough separate from who-are-you?

coombrained 2y ago
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bastawhiz 2y ago
Scans of driver's license or passport with a selfie liveness check. That's the best that can be done right now.
- gorgoiler 2y ago
  ID has traditionally had a copy of what you look like embedded into the surface, but wouldn’t it be nice to have an ID that encoded what you sound like? If certain characteristics of my voice could be narrowed down to a QR code I’d feel a lot more comfortable identifying myself with a mic instead of a camera. You could combine that with only one side of the ID showing the QR code and a some proof of age and keeping my actual name to the other side, hidden from the camera. Have me say a random number, see if it matches the QR code for “en_US, male, tenor, southern French accent” to prove it’s me, here, and alive?
sebazzz 2y ago
In the Netherlands iDIN could be used, by which you verify she though your bank.
- gorgoiler 2y ago
  Doing it through banking or credit card infra sounds handy. The site gives me a magic number and also sends it to their bank. I give the magic number to my bank and the two banks agree I am old enough without telling their respective customers (or each other) who is asking and who is responding?

coombrained 2y ago

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bastawhiz 2y ago

Scans of driver's license or passport with a selfie liveness check. That's the best that can be done right now.

gorgoiler 2y ago
ID has traditionally had a copy of what you look like embedded into the surface, but wouldn’t it be nice to have an ID that encoded what you sound like? If certain characteristics of my voice could be narrowed down to a QR code I’d feel a lot more comfortable identifying myself with a mic instead of a camera. You could combine that with only one side of the ID showing the QR code and a some proof of age and keeping my actual name to the other side, hidden from the camera. Have me say a random number, see if it matches the QR code for “en_US, male, tenor, southern French accent” to prove it’s me, here, and alive?

sebazzz 2y ago

In the Netherlands iDIN could be used, by which you verify she though your bank.

gorgoiler 2y ago
Doing it through banking or credit card infra sounds handy. The site gives me a magic number and also sends it to their bank. I give the magic number to my bank and the two banks agree I am old enough without telling their respective customers (or each other) who is asking and who is responding?