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Re:Opening up 'Zero-Knowledge Proof' technology to promote p... by M95D on Thursday July 02, 2026 @05:15AM (#48758632)
> AI tools are probably not even on the radar for the kind of politicians that keep pushing this.

Forget about the politicians for a bit. There still are many regions on the globe where no age verification is mandatory, yet websites chose to implement it anyway. Why, if not for tracking and bots?

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Re:Opening up 'Zero-Knowledge Proof' technology to promote p... by sigmoid10 on Thursday July 02, 2026 @08:33AM (#48760497)
Well, because of things like COPPA I imagine most companies wouldn't want to risk anything here. So unless you have a website that is somehow guaranteed 100% blocking all traffic from the US or American citizens, you may as well implement it. But very few (if any) public websites will fall into that category.
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