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The new age verifying app for the EU will only accept Google Play integrity for Android, de-facto banning any aftermarket OS like GrapheneOS (github.com)

submitted 23 hours ago by Blaze@piefed.zip to c/privacy@programming.dev

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Taken from the readme of the app on github:

The current release provides only basic functionality, with several key features to be introduced in future versions, including:

App and device verification based on Google Play Integrity API and Apple App Attestation

Additional issuance methods beyond the currently implemented eID based method.

These planned features align with the requirements and methods described in the Age Verification Profile.

There is an issue opened to remove this as it's basically telling us that to verify our age in the EU an American corporation has the last word, making it not only a privacy nightmare but a de-facto monopoly on the phone market that will leave out of the verification checks even the fairphone (european) with /e/os.

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[–] TheLeadenSea@sh.itjust.works 33 points 22 hours ago (6 children)

Ban age verification. It's an accessibility and privacy nightmare, besides the free speech implications.

[–] panda_abyss@lemmy.ca 21 points 20 hours ago (5 children)

There’s no reason why you can’t just have the browser for device say that the user is 18 or not.

Parents wouldn’t have to do anything after setting up their kids devices and putting a pin on their own. The setup is literally three buttons:

Who is this device used by:

Adults only (no age restrictions)
A child (all age restrictions active)
Both (restrictions with optional unlock PIN)

This whole debacle is a massive attack on freedom and is completely asinine. It incorporates no ideas from industry and only props up sketchy companies that make money from this specific implementation.

[–] Petter1@discuss.tchncs.de 7 points 19 hours ago

This meeds to be put on a large sheet and be put on any large building we find, in my opinion. People need to wake the fuck up. There are easy solutions! We don’t have to force our beliefs onto our neighbours.

Not only countries have right to be sovereign, this counts for families as well. Family should be able to decide their rules on their own and rise their children how they want, in my opinion.

Of course, a kid should be told somehow, how to get help, if their parameters are monsters.

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