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.
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:
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.
This tbh, age verification SHOULD be a parenting issue not a state mandated issue. If the state wants to make it an issue it should be on the parents to at least be a trusted party.
So, if a 12 year old appears on the door of a strip club, we don’t check for his ID, we let him in because, after all, it’s a parent topic and if the parents let the boy out, he can for sure visit a strip club, right?
This isn’t a physical place, this is the internet. Parental controls exist specifically for this situation. Also at least personally, my parents did not let me go anywhere solo when I was 12…so 12 year old me would’ve never made it to a strip club.
We have Linux, Mac, Windows, Android,…
We have kids that know more about PC’s then parents.
Your suggestion can only work with systems that are heavily locked down and always controlled by the parents.
That is not the world in that we live. “Just 3 buttons” is a very naive idea to a very complex problem
But feel free, design a 3 button system, including client/server communication and more. Than we can talk about it
Routers have parental controls, if your kid can figure out how to bypass that then they can figure out a VPN and it’s a moot point anyway. I have no idea what 3 button system you’re talking a out here. I don’t even get the analogy you’re trying to make.
Parental control in routers are based on DNS blacklist. That works only for full websites. What about steam, Netflix, online shops?
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.
Well – there are more age levels than that, but yes, I agree.
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.
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.