@EUCommission

"Just like shops ask for proof of age for people buying alcoholic beverages."

In real life, people can go shopping in a supermarket without an ID. It will be necessary only if they try to buy alcohol.

Generalized age verification to access a platform, whether some content should be restricted or not, is a privacy issue.

Harmful content is harmful also for adults, BTW. Most of it is just illegal activities and platforms should seriously face their own issues.

@EUCommission

Please don't do that.

We don't need Age Verification, we need education.

@EUCommission

It is for parents to raise their children. As a parent I oppose age verification. It's my job to decide what is appropriate for my child, not some soulless arbitrary age limit.

@EUCommission You are exposing to all app publishers which of their users are children. The perfect tool for any app publisher who is a paedophile.

Age verification is a terrible idea and should be completely scrapped.

@EUCommission Fuck you no one need this

@EUCommission Again, what kind of problem -exactly- are we solving with age verification?

@EUCommission Or, here me out, how about let parents talk to their children instead?

@EUCommission Already hacked, you idiots.

I hope the EU will collapse soon.

@EUCommission Age verification is a violation of privacy and the epstein class loves it.

@EUCommission

@EUCommission "any device" does not apply to:
- HarmonyOS devices
- LineageOS devices
- /e/OS devices
- postmarketOS devices
- GrapheneOS devices
- Linux Laptops
- Android devices of which Google believes they're not worthy to be used

I don't own any of your "any devices", since I prefer to keep Google out of my most personal life and data, I also plan to keep it that way.

@EUCommission

Allow or require? There's a difference.

@EUCommission the alcohol age proof check time, date, name isn't recorded forever

@EUCommission
Good morning EU commission. As any day you share with us other techno contol tools that we not asked, prone to bugs, malware, rising the excuse that it's to protect childrens. As a janitor, I do not want that their safety is forever linked to an app (with all the preventivable weaknesses of the platforms where it run). Please do something for european citizens, instead to extend USA dupolies

@EUCommission does the app work for people without an european ID? Like kids younger than 16 (that's at least the age in Germany) or stateless people or tourists? Or people outside of the EU, that want to use a service implementing age verification using this app?

@EUCommission
works on any device ❌ - only Android, Apple with corresponding accounts, so yes vendor lock in and platform dependent.

Highest privacy standards in the world ❌ - Not really, considering it requires face scanning. Also only pseudonymity no anonymity is guaranteed, so the same platform can easily link transactions.

What's the point in building another US-dependency that doesn't even solve any problems, as it's obviously not enforceable and also trivial to circumvent.

@EUCommission

The proposal raises fundamental concerns that remain unanswered.

The comparison to offline age checks is misleading: online verification is inherently scalable, leaves digital traces, and can enable tracking.

In practice, this is not just age verification, but a layer of digital identification with clear risks of future expansion.

BTW, where is the evidence that age verification actually improves children’s safety?

@EUCommission Liars!

Here, i'll fix it for you:

It has nothing to do with children. It doesn't help children. It doesn't help parents raise any children.
❌ Made to render any kind of privacy impossible
❌ Works on almost no device
❌ Impossible to use, without ties to unethical big tech apple and google
✅ Fully open source

edit: reported for deliberately and knowingly spreading misinformation.

@EUCommission

Age Verification Apps will do zero to help keep children safe. If a technology is being heavily lobbied by Mark Zuckerberg at Meta and Sam Altman at OpenID is a big red flag. Didn't you learn anything from Brexit and the Cambridge Analytica scandal!!!

If you really want to keep children safe you would keep pressure on the US to release the Epstein files and prosecute all the pedophiles involved in it.

@EUCommission you all will do anything to avoid regulating big tech huh

@EUCommission that's a crappy move, executed in an extremely crappy way. Very disappointed by this.

@EUCommission

IMHO, this approach will fail. Whatever runs on your device, especially if open source, you can manipulate at will. So there will be replacements for this App that allow you to enter any age.

Australia already shows that teenagers don't let them stop that easily.

Next step therefore will be to enforce age verification by restricting users' power and freedom over their own devices, and/or communicating back to some state/company controlled infrastructure.

#FreeSoftware #Freedom

@EUCommission Does it tick the "does not require a TPM" box?