For anyone interested, here seems to be the more technical documentation:
ageverification.dev/

and at a super lazy skim-through it seems the implementation should be FOSS too.

@EUCommission

Whether this is required should be up to the discretion of parents. Personally I believe you cannot protect children and young people by barricading them offline, I don't see how online is any different. They're going to come across some 18+ content at some point, much more effective to educate.

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This is a non-solution in search of a problem. Young people are getting radicalised by neo-nazi content on all-ages websites like YouTube, Twitter and Facebook, while youth consumption of pornography causes nowhere near comparable harm. I am appalled that we are introducing this level of surveillance into European daily lives, that will spawn government lists of vulnerable and "undesirable" people, and will not fix anything it implies to.

#ageverification

Oh fuck off with this dystopian, totalitarian shit.

You want to be China? This is how you become China.

And why would this work? People would simply go to shady porn websites full of scams and malware instead of the safe ones. You solve nothing, you create more problems.

Improve education standards instead.

"The age verification blueprint is an open-source implementation of these specifications"

At least it's open-source, gotta give credit when due.

Just use local control (like parental control) for minor. This is efficient (cannot be bypassed by VPN) and privacy respecting (100% local). Mandate phone sold to minors to be locked this way, while phone sold to adult are unlocked.

Online solutions are easily bypassed and extremely privacy invasive, this is clearly the wrong approach

how will those checks help with illegal content? Isn't it, by definition, served with no respect to the law?

On a more serious note: adding a speed bump for accessing gambling, gacha, or other content designed to induce addiction might make sense. But how can we know furry artists won't get thrown into the same basket?

Sorry, but just passing an age test doesn't make kids ready for certain material on the web!
Proper education and guidance does!

And, illegal material is still illegal, even though kids pass a certain age test!

Presenting Age Verification(TM).

From the same people who want to scan all your online communications, including encrypted ones. (#ChatControl and #ProtectEU)

Just trust them bro. This powerful system will definitely not be used to control which sites and services you may use on the Internet in the future. /s

a better Europe starts with a European Commission doing serious stuff.

Every app, every device and every streaming service has excellent parental controls. It’s the parents that are responsible for what their children see and don’t see. There’s even within the European Union a huge cultural difference in what is seen as appropriate per age group.

So stop messing around and start doing serious stuff or your risk repeating the cookie drama.

Stupid question about this, that hopefully someone more versed in security than me might know.

The protocol description mentions that the first version is going to use batching and after that going to move to a ZK proof but... Wouldn't this particular case work well with a single batch for everyone?

For example, you would authenticate in an app/website and get the current global "adult PIN" (rotating every 10 minutes or something). Kind of like TOTP, but not really (as it's not one time and is shared by everyone).

I'm sure I'm missing something, but what would be the limitations of this vs the proposed solution?

I can think of code sharing, but if the refresh window is small, is that so much different than sharing the content itself?

Even if a website decided to start distributing the codes openly, wouldn't that just be the same as if someone setup an adult proxy or a site without an age gate?

Concept:

A browser extension that:
• Stores or imports an age credential file (e.g., JSON, JWT, or cryptographic blob)
• Automatically detects when a site requests age verification
• Intercepts the request and auto-injects a valid credential (e.g., over-18 proof)
• Silently passes the check without user interaction

Das Wort "Impfskepsis" passt nicht, so wenig wie "Klimaskeptiker" oder "Runde-Erde-Skeptiker".

Skepsis ist eigentlich eine sehr vernünftige Haltung - außer man setzt sich mit Geschwurbel über Fakten hinweg, wie hier.

Nur zur Erinnerung, welcher korrupten Partei wir den verschleppten Glasfaserausbau/Fortschritt zu verdanken haben.

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Dazu kommen heute zusätzliche unnötige Probleme durch die Gier (bekannt als "Wettbewerb"/Kapitalismus) verschiedener Anbieter. Es ist ein Irrsinn, wenn jeder Anbieter sein eigenes Kabel verbuddelt und dafür mehrfach gebaut werden muss. Dazu müsste der Gesetzgeber vernünftige Regelungen schaffen, die die Anbieter zur Nutzung gemeinsamer Ressourcen zwingt. Das ist aber mit einer CxU geführten BR nicht zu machen. Zudem verspielen die Anbieter das Vertrauen in die Technologie durch aufdringliche Drückerkolonnen, Bandbreitendrosselung und schlechte Preispolitik.

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Danke, Helmut Kohl: Kabelfernsehen statt Glasfaserausbau

Die sozialliberale Koalition unter Helmut Schmidt hatte bereits 1981 Pläne für einen bundesweiten Glasfaserausbau beschlossen. Ein Jahr später kam Helmut Kohl an die Macht, legte die Pläne aufs Eis und förderte lieber das Kabelfernsehen.

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Ach, bevor ihr solche Meldungen raus haut:
Seht euch doch mal um, was bereits jetzt verzapft wird!
Da kommt erst Firma A und legt GF und dann kommt die Telekom und legt nochmal GF weil trotz Vermittlungsversuche des Bürgermeisters eine gemeinsame Nutzung des verbuddelten Netzes nicht möglich ist.

Und jetzt hat seit 1 Jahr keiner einen Anschluss, wegen Baumängeln beim Tiefbau und Streit wer verantwortlich ist.

#gießkannenpolitik