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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 1 week 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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[–] Kornblumenratte@feddit.org 4 points 1 week ago (1 children)

Well – there are more age levels than that, but yes, I agree.

[–] verdigris@lemmy.ml 2 points 1 week ago (1 children)

For content restriction online? What are they? Unless you mean different ages in different areas, in which case that's still just two levels -- parents would be the one setting it so presumably they know what that age is where they are.

[–] Kornblumenratte@feddit.org 3 points 1 week ago

At least in my area movies and games are rated in 5 age groups. I'm pretty sure that's the case in most parts of the world. We've got different rights to buy things for different ages, as well.