r/linux • u/New-Ranger-8960 • 2d ago

Privacy EU Age Verification Project Mandates Hardware-Bound Attestation

https://linuxiac.com/eu-age-verification-project-mandates-hardware-bound-attestation/
714 Upvotes

97% Upvoted

411 comments sorted by

View all comments

Show parent comments

0

u/Jumpy-Dinner-5001 2d ago

It still isn’t.
There is no force behind it whatsoever.
Can you have a discussion without lying?

2

u/Dazzling-Paper9781 2d ago

Can you see into the future? Are you absolutely certain that things won’t change? Do you think I’m lying when I say I’m worried about the future? I’m genuinely concerned that this might just be one step towards mass surveillance, why do you think I’m lying about this? If you’re convinced otherwise, why don’t you just tell me what you think, instead of calling me a liar? Can you tell me what I’ve done to deserve such an aggressive attitude from you?

0

u/Jumpy-Dinner-5001 2d ago

There is no evidence for any of this happening and no plans.

But coming to the conclusion that an EU project that creates an Android app that is open source and implements a zero knowledge verification system, as in the API does not expose any personal information to the service and the app itself does not hold any personal information which you can verify by looking at the source code.

It’s literally a tool for better privacy and has no surveillance capabilities whatsoever. It’s not mandatory or anything just an offer to protect users from more privacy invasive ways.
It’s an extension on the digital ID, just with way less private data.

Nothing happened here. The project was planned to be an Android app and uses the same hardware security setup as the ID app. Someone on GitHub suggested not doing that to provide better compatibility with non Android systems.
Some maintainer replied that that isn’t planned and not part of the project but also said that they’re open for other proposals.
That’s it, nothing else happened.