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The way EU is planning on implementing it is seemingly rather okay on the privacy side.
Basic idea is that instead of sending your actual ID to every random shady website, which is fucking stupid and you should never ever do, you verify your ID once to a trusted processor, and the websites only receive a simple "Is adult: yes/no" answer connected to a randomised ID from them.
Combine that with one additional hop between the website and processor and you eliminate the processor even knowing what websites you requested the check for, and therefore the risk of a data leak is minimal.
I like how this approach gets called "okay on the privacy side" and just assumes you're logged in to everything. In case you missed it, the subject matter here is browsing porn, a vast majority of people aren't logging in at all with any service when they watch porn.
It doesn't. The website would ask for an id check, you would generate it on the processor side and give the randomized ID to the site so it could go check it's valid and let you through. It can be used to verify an account permanently but without one, it would kinda act like a temporary 2FA code.
I'm glad to hear this. Some weeks ago I was pondering how to do age checks anonymously and this was pretty much the idea I came up with. It just makes a lot more sense because it does what you want without revealing anything private.
Edit: had a brain fart and wrote unanimously instead of anonymously
Yeah, bit annoyed that Bandcamp is now asking for ID. Just going to have to abandon it when it becomes mandatory