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I'm struggling to think of any online services for which I'd be willing to verify my identity or age (neilzone.co.uk)
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[โ€“] Fiery@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 points 4 hours ago (1 children)

The EU actually was working on a system described above based on some sort of zero knowledge proof (so verification via your gov't id, but without the verifying party being able to assert anything other than age > 18 or whatever data you want to verify)

[โ€“] Lfrith@lemmy.ca 1 points 3 hours ago* (last edited 3 hours ago)

So being able to get a token without even the government knowing?

Because if it's the alternative of the government itself issuing the token and it being only the receiving site not knowing, but the government being able to link it back to you I wouldn't be happy with that either.

I'd prefer it to be as trackable as knowing which specific alcohol bottle you bought. So other than showing ID to a store to get a random token nobody in theory would know who the token belongs to including the government.