Pornhub and two other adult sites are suing the European Union over a landmark digital content law, the Digital Services Act, which imposes age verification and other obligations on large platforms. The European Commission last year named Pornhub, Xvideos and Stripchat as a category of “very large online platform” under the act, which includes obligations such as age verification measures for minors and creating a library of adverts published on their sites. Companies that fall foul of the law can be fined up to six percent of their global turnover. This lawsuit follows similar legal challenges by online retailers Amazon and Zalando.

  • barsoap
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    3 months ago

    Ultimately it requires someone to simply ignore other info that would otherwise be accessible.

    Nah. The ID card says “here, have a proof that I’m an ID card issued by <state>, and I assert that the bearer is 18+”. The crypto involved can be furnished such that nothing but the issuing authority and the fact “18+” gets transmitted, no name, no id number, no nothing. You can’t even match up different times you age auth with the same ID as every time the proof will look different.

    That said I’m still against that kind of auth online, but the crypto is not the issue. Unlike voting it’s actually solvable.

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      3 months ago

      The crypto involved can be furnished such that nothing but the issuing authority and the fact “18+” gets transmitted, no name, no id number, no nothing.

      This is a best-case-scenario implementation. I just think it is extremely likely that any approach actually implemented would not have the privacy of the user in mind.