EID can be used for anonymous age verification. It doesn't even need to give out your birthday and can attest to any "over the age of X" requirement.

Ref: https://www.bfdi.bund.de/DE/Buerger/Inhalte/Telematik-Statistik-Verkehr-Bildung/Meldewesen-Statistik/Der_Personalausweis.html

I miss LineageOS so much, my last couple of phones haven't had a build of it and my asshole banking apps wont work on it now.

For my next phone i'm just not going to buy one unless it's already supported and if I have to skip online banking I'll do it.

What's going on with Europe lately? You all really want GOOGLE of all mega corps in control of your identity?

You're going the opposite way, it should be your right to install an alternate OS on your phone. If anything they should be banning Google licensed Android.

to hear it from any non-Americans on lemmy they're better than America.

looks like they're just as susceptible to this fascist bullshit to me though...

I just wanted the EU to fork lineageOS and provide it as an alternative in major chains.

What is it with everyone being obsessed with porn censorship suddenly? Why is this a trend?

At first I thought it's about control and data gathering, but this seems like too much of a genuine attempt at such a system. Why is the government so obsessed with parenting and nannying the citizens?

To avoid people from simply copying the "age proof" and having others reuse it, a nonce/private key combo is needed. To protect that key a DRM style locked down device is necessary. Conveniently removing your ability to know what your device is doing, just a "trust us".

Seeing the EU doesn't make any popular hardware, their plan will always rely on either Asian or US manufacturers implementing the black-box "safety" chip.

Yeah no. Requiring anything Google for something as basic as this violates the GDPR. If they go through with this, it's one legal case until they have to revise it.

Edit: German eID works on any Android btw., flawless actually. I sure hope I can use that for verification

Just use a VPN then.

What is it with everyone being obsessed with porn censorship suddenly? Why is this a trend?

At first I thought it's about control and data gathering, but this seems like too much of a genuine attempt at such a system. Why is the government so obsessed with parenting and nannying the citizens?

To avoid people from simply copying the "age proof" and having others reuse it, a nonce/private key combo is needed. To protect that key a DRM style locked down device is necessary. Conveniently removing your ability to know what your device is doing, just a "trust us".

Seeing the EU doesn't make any popular hardware, their plan will always rely on either Asian or US manufacturers implementing the black-box "safety" chip.

Is it tied to my real identity?
If not it seems to me that it should be sufficient as to serve as a security this phone is legit and not emulated/compromised.

'Cos it's been turning (far-)right as well in the last few years.

Wait till they put up a EU Great Firewall and ban VPNs

The key doesn't have to be on your phone. You can just send it to some service to sign it, identifying yourself to that service in whatever way.

If it is about hiding some data handled by the app, that will be instantly extracted.
There are plenty of people with full integrity on rooted phones. It's really annoying to set up and keep going, and requiring that would fuck over most rooted phone/custom os users, but someone to fully inspect and leak everything about the app will always be popping up.

• Govt. want to control access to everything
• People are not too happy about this
• Govt. say "to protect children, you have to install this app, under these conditions"
• You want to protect childrens, so you do so
• Govt. say "to protect this or that, we have to impose approved gates on many websites, based on the app you installed before"
• You want to protect this or that, so you accept it
• Govt. say "fuck you, you whatever is not in line with the fucking biggot at the helm of your country/federation/whatever, now we know what you do, we control what's allowed, and anything to get around the blocks is illegal and will land you in jail. Fuck you again, fucker."
• You're a happy little plant in a pot.

Basically, it's not about porn. It's not about protecting kids. It's not about helping "victims of abuse". If anything, it's putting all these in more danger, along with everyone else.