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The old way of using driver's license (or any ID) to verify age is the antipattern. We shouldn't replicate that in technological solutions. ID is for "who you
by tantalor 1y ago
The old way of using driver's license (or any ID) to verify age is the antipattern.
We shouldn't replicate that in technological solutions.
ID is for "who you are", which doesn't matter for the types of things we use for age checks (bars, etc.)
There should be a way to verify your age without showing ID.
Sure, ID can do that. It is sufficient, but it should not be necessary.
- DoneWithAllThat 1y agoHow do you propose a system to be effective that proves you are over a particular age but also does not prove that you are you? In other words I don’t see a way to solve the problem of needing both proof of identity and proof of age to accomplish proof of age.
- tantalor 1y agoYou could give people a photo card that says "this person is over 18". It doesn't have any identifiable information like your name, address, or DOB. And you can't pass it if you don't match the photo.
- nullc 1y agoWith an anonymous credential. Imagine you have a private key whose public key is signed by a trusted issuer if and only if you're an adult. Now you use this to get an account. What if you share your private key? Well you can only have one account per key and it's otherwise the same as just obtaining the porn for the improper users yourself (which is always possible). Won't that ID just get linked between sites and used to track you? Yes. But you can use a somewhat more complicated version of this scheme where you can get access to a single unlinkable ID per site... so then you can't be tracked.