Many might’ve seen the Australian ban of social media for <16 y.o with no idea of how to implement it. There have been mentions of “double blind age verification”, but I can’t find any information on it.

Out of curiosity, how would you implement this with privacy in mind if you really had to?

  • hemko@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    22 days ago

    Could it be maybe a token signed by the verifying party living permanently on your computer (like cookie), and websites can request permission to query it to verify the age?

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      22 days ago

      Since age tends to not decrease, that may make sense: once you reach 18 you get a signed token you can use forever.

      Your token might be used by someone else, though

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        22 days ago

        Your token might be used by someone else, though

        Yeah. I feel like that cool bad influence not-actually-my-uncle is gonna publish their porn access token everywhere.