Sure: if we believe that having a giant third-party in the sky that does verification of users itself a giant privacy violation that the web currently doesn't r

Sure: if we believe that having a giant third-party in the sky that does verification of users itself a giant privacy violation that the web currently doesn't require us to subject ourselves to--and if we also believe that the information they collect won't be invasive, particularly when dealing with an international context--I absolutely agree that we can then use various cryptographic schemes to protect our information from the provider. However, I certainly don't believe that: I believe that having a giant centralized verification service is inherently dangerous in a world where we are apparently reliant on inanity like CrowdStrike to feel a sense of security; and, in fact, there was even just recently a big hack of an identity provider company. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/06/hack-age-verification-company-shows-privacy-danger-social-media-laws https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/06/hack-age-verification-...