Online age assurance raises thorny questions. (And privacy is not really one of them.)

https://blog.xot.nl/2026/04/09/online-age-assurance-raises-thorny-questions/index.html

Online age assurance raises thorny questions.

@xot this is a really interesting read, in particular the non-technical approach to preventing over-verification.

If you don't mind me asking, what's your view on age estimation techniques being used to store an age credential in a wallet? Do you think that would remove the privacy concerns you mentioned?

@badambassador Actually I specifically mention that there are in essence no privacy concerns with a wallet based approach, so no need to use age estimation (which DOES have privacy concerns for all the methods I am aware of.