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Sure, if you start requiring age verification for all sorts of other things, it becomes harder to infer anything except for the subset that are verifying their
by Aloisius 1y ago
Sure, if you start requiring age verification for all sorts of other things, it becomes harder to infer anything except for the subset that are verifying their identity for the first time at 2 in the morning.
Of course, understanding that requires a fair bit of technological knowledge.
I imagine most people, when visiting a porn site for the first time and asked to verify their age, if sent to a process that asks them to upload their ID or show their face on camera will simply refuse to do so - regardless of any assurances as to privacy.
This seems to have happened when Louisiana started requiring age verification - driving people, both children and adults, to sites that don't comply with the law, proxy servers, VPNs or Tor. I doubt it'll be any different in France.
- palata 1y ago> if sent to a process that asks them to upload their ID or show their face on camera I think the whole point of the "eID" would be that people don't have to do that. Using Zero Knowledge Proof.
- Aloisius 1y agoYou generally have to do it to get an eID in the first place. In France's case though (from the article): > Instead, users must verify their age using a credit card or a government-issued ID. This check must be carried out by an external service, not the porn site itself.
- palata 1y agoPresumably you have an ID issued by your government. This same government can provide an eID, it's not like they don't know who you are. The whole question is: is it possible to prove your age to a pornsite without exposing your identity to said pornsite and without telling your government that you use it? And that would be the point of Zero Knowledge Proofs. Now of course, there are infinitely many poor ways to verify the age.