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Can Digital ID be private? (lemmy.nz)

submitted 3 weeks ago by absGeekNZ@lemmy.nz to c/privacy@lemmy.world

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I'm looking for studies that either say that Digital ID/Age verification can be done in a truly private manner or not.

I have read a bunch of stuff, there is a lot of noise about this subject.

I want to be able to submit something to politicians as to how this system is going to be a huge target; and the dangers around it. But I also want to be able to know if is technically possible to do it properly.

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[–] Ulrich@feddit.org 6 points 3 weeks ago

The govs all around the world always have had and and always will have a record of the populace. They're the ones responsible for verifying ID. Think about it, what's the only way to verify your ID around the world? With gov documents.

I wish they would care more about the security of that information but they don't, they won't, and they're not just going to delete it. Ever.

That's why the gov has to be the one implementing any sort of ID checks. Contracting this responsibility out to private third party corpos is dangerous as fuck.

The EU digital wallet looks private and secure to me but I am not an infosec professional. It just generates a token to give to a site that verifies "yes this user is over 18" and nothing else. It's too bad it was not included as a requirement of the existing legislation.