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…

Full title: 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 checks

www.independent.ie/business/eus-new-social-media-child-protection-rules-to-require-all-social-media-accounts-to-produce-state-id/a/161556431.html

Eliminating online privacy has always been framed as “protecting children” and it’s always been 100% about surveillance

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The framework is anonymous and open source.

Even if it’s secure (no software is ever 100% secure), it can’t be anonymous. How could they verify your ID? Maybe they theoretically don’t store the record, and the checks after the first don’t provide it, it can’t be anonymous or it’s worthless for ID verification.

That’s the cool part, they found a way to keep it anonymous and still be ID verification, it’s called a white card, a simple yes or no if you’re 18+, it’s like you get a simple white card from a verified institution like a bank saying you’re 18+ with no other information like… How is that not anonymous?
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Sources for ZKP: ageverification.dev/…/annex-B-zkp/ en.wikipedia.org/…/Elliptic_Curve_Digital_Signatu… Vulnerabilities: www.encryptionconsulting.com/…/what-is-ecdsa/ [Api2025] Rutchathon Chairattana-Apirom, Franklin Harding, Anna Lysyanskaya, and Stefano Tessaro, “Server-Aided Anonymous Credentials,” available at eprint.iacr.org/2025/513, 2025