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Re:Discord's face scanning age checks 'start of a bigger shift' by brian-armstrong on Thursday April 17, 2025 @06:44PM (#43723022)
Wouldn't this require the API provider to know that tbe citizen is connecting to the app? Grindr users might be squeamish about letting the current US admin know about that.
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Re:Discord's face scanning age checks 'start of a bigger shift' by mschuster91 on Thursday April 17, 2025 @07:00PM (#43723129)
ICAO compliant ID cards (aka passports) and many national ID cards already are smartcards with powerful crypto processors.

Hand out certificates to porn, gambling or whatever sites, that allow requesting the age of a person from the ID card, have the user touch their ID card with their phone to sign a challenge with its key (and certificate signed by the government), that's it.

Government doesn't know what porn site you visited, and porn site only gets the age.

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Re:Discord's face scanning age checks 'start of a bigger shift' by packetlost on Thursday April 17, 2025 @09:30PM (#43724050)
Not necessarily, you can define the protocol such that it's all done with opaque IDs instead of identifying info.
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