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Honestly? State ID is better than the current solution which is giving Thiel-affiliated companies photo and other data.
Ideally I'd rather have a governments provided digital ID that's more secure and just gives the company limited metadata instead of full ID info provided from gov't to company. Put in rules requiring warrants or subpoenas for lookups.
Who do you think is checking those ids? Hint: it's not the government, it's some 3rd party company, always.
With cryptographic systems like the EU uses, it must go through the government because a 3rd party can't implement that verification/response pattern without access to the proper gov't cryptographic secrets.
Did you at any point actually read the open-source, anonymous age-verfication framework to be used by the EU?
https://ageverification.dev/
Yes, I did and I really do not like that they are using PlayIntegrity for Android phones. That forces everybody in the EU onto unrooted phones which are controlled by google and will kill GrapheneOS and other alternatives.
https://github.com/eu-digital-identity-wallet/av-app-android-wallet-ui/issues/133
The one that won't even allow me tonuse the system if google dont like inuse my phone the way I want ? The one needes google verification to even launch.
No? What are you even talking about dude? You're on a different topic
Yes. Look it. So it direct ban any linux phone or non certified google android phone wich if I want to modify my host file to not be submerged with ad I loose the certification
You are talking about something else. Show me.
Two chopsticks!
People are morons. Here we have an open source and anonymous framework for age-verifcation (free for anyone to read and check the source code: https://ageverification.dev/) developed by a people's institution and people lump it into the same boat as some private USA company photocopying your ID.
People can be morons, but at least they're not authority cocksuckers!