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Stop Killing The Internet: No Digital ID & No Age Verification | European Citizens' Initiative (citizens-initiative.europa.eu)

submitted 1 day ago by taco_shale032@lemmy.ml to c/privacy@lemmy.ml

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[–] unwarlikeExtortion@lemmy.ml 1 points 2 hours ago

And how do you verify the source of the "yes/no" signal is a valid ID card? How do you know it's used by the person linked to it?

Either the yes/no is trivially faked (so you might as well skip the formality), or the user secretly does get ID'd.