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How could/would/should the Fediverse do age verification if required in the EU? (lemmy.world)
submitted 6 months ago by to c/fediverse@lemmy.world
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The question is prompted by the age verification app that the EU has just presented.

Some EU countries want to ban social media for young people. If that were to happen, what then?

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[–] 3 points 6 months ago* (last edited 6 months ago) (3 children)

Does the App allow random platforms to do verification? Or do we need to be some registered business, do contracts, likely pay for the service...? For the App to speak to our instances?

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 6 months ago (2 children)

    Good questions. I haven't seen any info about the economics yet. I think that's up to the member states?

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  • [–] 2 points 6 months ago* (1 child)

    I found some info here: https://ageverification.dev/

    But that's difficult to read, very technical. And mostly written from the user perspective. It looks to me like they're (for once) trying to come up with a proper solution. Everyone can be an Attestation Provider, Relying Party or repurpose the white-label App. At least in theory. It's all specified and in the open. And then the European Union contributes some list of trustworthy Attestation Providers (governments, banks, mobile network providers...)

    I think due to the project structure, it'll be more like the Covid-Certificate App, which could be customized by every member state and it's theoretically possible to use it as one uniform solution.

    So unless there's some certification for "Relying Parties" which I missed while skimming the documentation, I'd say in theory it'd be possible to use it on a technical level. Of course it's still a preview so the EU has lots of opportunity left to mess it up.

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  • [–] [S] 2 points 6 months ago*

    Everyone can be an Attestation Provider,

    Maybe everyone can apply to become one, but there will be some certification process. Anything else would defeat the purpose. So you have the question of how much that would cost and who pays for that.

    I agree that, on a technical level, it should be possible to implement support for the app.

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