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- technology@lemmy.world
- cross-posted to:
- technology@lemmy.world
Full title: EU’s new social media child protection rules to require all social media accounts to produce state ID - Leaked documents suggest that some existing accounts will also be subject to identification checks
You not uploading to cloud, you validate your docs locally
If anything truly local and zero knowledge was allowed, there would be someone sharing their access eu-wide and everyone could install that and be done with it. One person authenticating millions.
Just due to that every system proposed has at minimum a central authority that does rate limiting.
Locally, how does that work?
FWIW, identity verifications schemes that attempt to maintain privacy are a contradiction in terms and cannot work. Same as encryption that both works and doesn’t work (backdoors).
Verbose version here: https://pluralistic.net/2025/08/14/bellovin/
Based on paper here: https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb/papers/age-verify.pdf