Yoodle 🇨🇦17h ago

RE: https://mastodon.social/@txtx/116306932969421510

What do you guys think of this strategy? This seems like the only way to implement age verifcation that actually respects your #privacy (or does it?). I’m not necessarily endorsing it but I’m curious to hear peoples’ thoughts. #askfedi

Show threadFruitConsumer

@chimpchomp
Well, my concept would be just to have the government mail adults a list of little single use codes they can use. With the codes not being connected to a specific identity. Maybe 200 codes.

And whenever something requires: "Authenticate adult status." you just pull up the little list of codes and write something like: "EOAY-2734-BB28" and the site asks some gov database if the code is legit and gets just a: "Yep." in response and that's it. Cheaper and safer than many alternatives.

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Show threadYoodle 🇨🇦4h ago
@FruitConsumer government mailing the tokens out would make distribution easier, especially in remote locations that might not be able to easily access storefronts. But how can we make it so that the we know the government isn’t storing information about which tokens they send to who? They would have an incentive to secretly store that info for later spying, so we’d need a way transparent way to ensure that there’s no funny business