Makes identity theft much more likely though
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Prob should double down the efforts rather than scrap it then right?
Well, who'd have thought.
Has anyone got any half decent ideas for how to improve age verification? Obvs without this draconian shit.
I had a thought once about doing it with NFTs, where a company could independently verify you with certain metadata, like 'is human' or 'is over 18' etc. Then you get issued your token, and these sites can verify you without de-anoninising you.
Not sure if that's a naff idea, but would be interested to know if anyone's got anything better
The EU has something in the works with zero knowledge proofs. Which would be a good way to do this.
I still don't agree on the fact that this needs doing at all... But at least it's not as bad as the UK's half-baked nonsense
Unfortunately, even EU's solution doesn't support non-google-backed android.
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