Comment on EU’s new social media child protection rules to require all social media accounts to produce state ID - Leaked documents suggest that some existing accounts will also be subject to identification che…

• lemmyvore@feddit.nl ⁨20⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  Locally, how does that work?

  FWIW, identity verifications schemes that attempt to maintain privacy are a contradiction in terms and cannot work. Same as encryption that both works and doesn’t work (backdoors).

  Verbose version here: pluralistic.net/2025/08/14/bellovin/

  Based on paper here: www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/papers/age-verify.pdf

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• Redjard@reddthat.com ⁨15⁩ ⁨hours⁩ ago

  If anything truly local and zero knowledge was allowed, there would be someone sharing their access eu-wide and everyone could install that and be done with it. One person authenticating millions.

  Just due to that every system proposed has at minimum a central authority that does rate limiting.

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