French politicians have passed a bill that will ban social media use by under-15s, a move championed by President Emmanuel Macron as a way to protect children from excessive screen time.
Would the EUDI (EU Digital Identity) wallet solve that?
The goal of the project is to create a digital wallet where people put their important things like ID, when companies ask you to prove you’re over 18 they don’t get your digital ID for it, instead they get a token from your wallet that says “Yes this person is over 18”. The company validates that this token is real with the EU body. The idea being that the company does not get your identity and the government also does not know who the token came from, they only verify the token was real.
It’s essentially similar to a one-use password generator, the wallet generates the token (password) then central hub verifies it without either knowing the identity.
Maybe you’d only need to do it once with each site? Then the sites would assume the account owner is always over 18.
Would the EUDI (EU Digital Identity) wallet solve that?
The goal of the project is to create a digital wallet where people put their important things like ID, when companies ask you to prove you’re over 18 they don’t get your digital ID for it, instead they get a token from your wallet that says “Yes this person is over 18”. The company validates that this token is real with the EU body. The idea being that the company does not get your identity and the government also does not know who the token came from, they only verify the token was real.
I’ve never seen it talked about here and wonder what others think about it. https://ec.europa.eu/digital-building-blocks/sites/spaces/EUDIGITALIDENTITYWALLET/pages/694487738/EU+Digital+Identity+Wallet+Home
Does every single website you visit have to do this transaction?
If they have content that’s only for over 18s?
It’s essentially similar to a one-use password generator, the wallet generates the token (password) then central hub verifies it without either knowing the identity.
Maybe you’d only need to do it once with each site? Then the sites would assume the account owner is always over 18.
Well hexbear is a social media site. So does it have to participate?
The definition of social media can’t just be a list of currently known big sites because people will just move elsewhere.
It can and will be and governments will be fine with 10% of people going elsewhere while the majority do not.