Electronic Frontier Foundation
If age verification requirements become law, you’ll have to be lucky every time you are forced to share your private information. Hackers will just have to be lucky once.
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2024/06/hack-age-verification-company-shows-privacy-danger-social-media-laws
Hack of Age Verification Company Shows Privacy Danger of Social Media Laws

We’ve said it before: online age verification is incompatible with privacy. Companies responsible for storing or processing sensitive documents like drivers’ licenses are likely to encounter data breaches, potentially exposing not only personal data like users’ government-issued ID, but also...

Electronic Frontier Foundation
Jun 30, 2024 at 5:19pmWeb
Show threadt3sseraktJun 30, 2024
@eff @Taler #gnutaler proposed an extension for anonymous age verification https://docs.taler.net/design-documents/024-age-restriction.html
18.24. DD 24: Anonymous Age Restriction Extension — GNU Taler

Show threadGavin Lux EnjoyerJun 30, 2024
@t3sserakt @eff @Taler or instead a simple content warning label on sites that host age restricted material. Parents who wish to keep their kids away can make sure their devices have age restrictions enabled. We can’t turn the internet into a police state just because people don’t want to supervise their kids.
Show threadelgregorJul 1, 2024
@t3sserakt @eff @Taler Interesting, thanks for info.