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Stop Killing The Internet: No Digital ID & No Age Verification | European Citizens' Initiative (citizens-initiative.europa.eu)
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[–] qwerty@discuss.tchncs.de 12 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (4 children)

We call on the European Commission to propose legislation ensuring that digital identity and age-assurance systems used to access online services in the Union remain voluntary, privacy-preserving and non-discriminatory. Citizens must not be forced to identify themselves to access lawful online content or services unless strictly necessary, proportionate and provided by law. The legislation should require anonymous or pseudonymous proof-of-age, data minimisation, selective disclosure, open-source implementation, independent security audits, prohibition of cross-service tracking by relying parties, and equivalent alternatives for citizens who do not use a digital wallet.

Yeah, nah.

[–] LamaThematique@lemmy.world 7 points 2 days ago* (last edited 2 days ago) (2 children)

Yeah, I read the language on their website and they seemed to be holding a much stricter line. Here the line seems more blurry where :

  • in that same paragraph they say "remain voluntary" and "should require"
  • "unless strictly necessary" is undefined. Is it all adult contents or banks, insurance and administrative procedure (which already often require IDs) that count as necessary ?
  • Do they have solutions for that "privacy preserving" proof of age ?

I am not part the campaign so I'm only trying to guess.

Edit: I have mailed up the Representative of the ECI, I will send an update if i receive a response.

[–] loics2@sh.itjust.works 2 points 2 days ago

Privacy preserving proof of age can be done with eID...

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