The proposed guidance on UK age verification is hilarious.pic.twitter.com/VcXCqa4gaU
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The proposed guidance on UK age verification is hilarious.pic.twitter.com/VcXCqa4gaU
It annoys me that people call this an Age Verification when it is and always has been an Identity Verification system - you literally can't do one without the other in any meaningful way.
The German ID cards actually have a clever little chip to do age verification without identity check. It's basically a "over 18? Y/N".
Do the checkbox thing and ask questions nobody under 18 can answer, like "who were the Beatles?" or "what was my hovercraft full of?"
Zero-knowledge proof on the chipcard itself. Pretty nifty, except nobody uses it.
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