Damage children*. Let's be honest, it's quite clear that hiding nudity, sexual education or porn from children is generally damaging in the long term as that tends to come with development of mental disorders and weird fetishes like voyeur or sexually abusing women on trains
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Conceptually, I think this is a lot closer to where things need to be. I do understand that the application does fall short in some critical aspects of security though, and on that basis it would still need more work to be suitable.
I understand and agree with the general sentiment of resisting the surveillance state that is dominating tech ever more in this space of ID verification, but this looks to me like it would be okay if the app was built with some very strict secure-by-design approach... which it does NOT seem to be.
There should be stronger technical controls availble to keep kids away from the dangerous things online, and I do think governments can potentially play a positive role in that.
I do understand that the application does fall short in some critical aspects of security though
Actually it doesn't. I looked at the specs. Project seems to be open source, and uses solid cryptography to selectively reveal data you want to be revealed, and nothing more. This is absolute opposite to the UK garbage where you're asked to send your pics to every fraudster around.
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They're using type of zk-proofs that keep things private. This is completely different from the "upload your selfie" shit in UK