It is for parents to raise their children. Not platforms.
The European Age Verification App is ready.
It will allow users to prove their age when accessing online platforms. Just like shops ask for proof of age for people buying alcoholic beverages.
And it ticks all the boxes:
✅ Highest privacy standards in the world
✅ Works on any device
✅ Easy to use
✅ Fully open source
More info: https://link.europa.eu/HmnrJc
@EUCommission
Can you guarantee the age information doesn't get stored?
Can you guarantee the age information isn't tied to identity?
If you can't guarantee the first, then it's not equivalent to "showing the physical ID" (the physical ID isn't copied/written down in the process)
If you can't guarantee the second, then you're not doing age verification but ownership verification/identity verification which is a different task.
Moreover:
"It is for parents to raise their children."
Then make sure parents have safe environment to do so. This means not needing them to work 24/7, losing their mind to stress so they have time to do parenting which is in fact a full-time job that can't be offloaded to anything or anyone else.
Right now the only thing you and many other "Liberal" administrations are doing is an equivalent of "building a kid's corner in a minefield" or "marking a minefield 'Adults Only'".
That's easier said than done, and these are legitimate questions.
The point of asking them is to find out if the EU will stand behind commitments to those principles, guided by subject experts, not to find out if the current codebase just happens (in the best judgement of one possibly-inexpert person doing a quick review of a large amount of material).
I've had a closer look at the code repository if anyone is interested?
PART 1: https://mastodon.social/@DazRunner/116409851244684923
PART 2: https://mastodon.social/@DazRunner/116409849097590581
@rawenwolf @EUCommission so I worked on the law for digital ID, and one of the elements in the law is enabling zero-knowledge proof. This means there should be a way for someone to attest to something about themselves with our actually having to reveal any of their personal information.
I'm wondering if this is the first actual implementation of that. If so it is extremely privacy-friendly: no personal data is shared.
@jmaris @EUCommission
If it's being done with zero-knowledge proof in mind, then I'm somewhat reassured that it should be harder to abuse (still not 100% sure but at least not panic mode). It of course doesn't solve the social issues but that's a different field.
It'd be better to make the ZKP mandatory so there's the privacy-preserving layer. Sadly can't check the code for this myself since I don't possess the necessary CyberSec expertise (I could at most check if there's no side-channel that could leak the ID information).
Happy to get feedback from a person directly involved with the work 
I hope you give enough time for a full independent audit of the software solution. If it really is open source, ppl will be able to analyze it and point at vulnerabilities.
You don't read the room here, don't you?
Please just look for the hashtag #ageverification and educate yourself why this is not a good idea.
On the contrary. This account is labeled "EUCommission", not "EUCommission PR" or similar.
And even if it were: There is no reason at all why governmental propaganda outlets should be treated like good friends that we just love to have around.
They're not: their agenda is propaganda, including the packaging of even the most outrageous plans, decisions and laws into a language designed to normalize them.
They're part of the system, not our friends that we comfortingly put our arms around.
The problem is that I have seen very few proposals by the community on they would do this. (i.e. technically)
?!?! Es ist nicht die Sache der Eltern Plattformen zu erziehen?
oder
es ist nicht die Sache der Plattformen Kinder zu erziehen?
Und wenn es Sache der Eltern ist Kinder zu erziehen, warum mischt ihr euch dann mit einer Altersverifizierung ein?
And it is really worst kind of misbehaving. This is only "professional" if you come from marketing otherwise it would truly be called "lying".
An age verification app's back end is arguably just as important as the front end. No word on that yet.
And it goes without saying that nothing apart from the boolean "is user older than x" should be shared with a platform.
Curious to see how this plays out. Platforms wanting age verification shouldn't have to rely on infamous contractors that leak data.
But everyone is aware of the slippery slope: IDing everyone on the web isn't something we'll let happen without pushback.
And of course, none of this IDing nonsense is ever going to happen on the dark web, so it's a waste of time as well as being intellectually dishonest about its intentions.
@EUCommission can't wait to try on my PostMarketOS phone, running just Linux (no Android, no iOS) and if genuinely it "✅️ Works on any device".
I honestly hope so but until I can attest it I'll remain skeptical of that claim.
Also it's not open source until we can see the code. Making a statement without a link to the repository with the license is simply wrong.
@kanongil Huh she says it will work on "computers"? If they plan to make a desktop version, then it could indeed work on Linux smartphones.
For example I recently realized the German eID App https://www.ausweisapp.bund.de/en/open-source being packaged for Alpine means it's already on postmarketOS and it actually does run out of the box (no NFC on my phone yet for actual functionality though)
@elettrona
Why/how would it not be accessible for trans people?
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