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
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
Locally, how does that work?
FWIW, identity verifications schemes that attempt to maintain privacy are a contradiction in terms and cannot work. Same as encryption that both works and doesn’t work (backdoors).
Verbose version here: https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/14/bellovin/
Based on paper here: https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/papers/age-verify.pdf