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I’m not an anarchist nor an anti-capitalist but I really appreciate the civil discussion.
I am 1000% aligned that no government nor corporation should have a dossier with your information.
That’s why I’m actually able to support age verification online in the EU, because the proposed system prevents exactly that. Your device will literally be issued with ZKP tokens, which solely verifies “the person handing you this token is above 18”. It is a specific requirement that no knowledge can be inferred about who is passing the token (hence the name “Zero Knowledge Proof”). This is a mathematical possibility we can utilise and which the proposal relies on. The Danish trailblazer system is built exactly to this spec.
I do understand the concern about implementation burden for smaller players (like federated services). In every other case where the burden has been large, open source has sprung to the rescue (eg Let’s Encrypt); I am convicted the same will happen here.