https://c3d2.social/@t3sserakt: The exchange issueing the tokens has to implement KVC. Nevertheless, the token can be used anonymously for a payment transaction. It only has one characteristic that indicates that the payer is a minor.

If age verification requirements become law, you’ll have to be lucky every time you are forced to share your private information. Hackers will just have to be lucky once.

Hack of Age Verification Company Shows Privacy Danger of Social Mediawww.eff.org We’ve said it before: online age verification is incompatible with privacy. Companies responsible for storing or processing sensitive documents like drivers’ licenses are likely to encounter data

#gnutaler proposed an extension for anonymous age verification docs.taler.net/design-docum...

13.24. DD 24: Anonymous Age Restriction Extension — GNU Talerdocs.taler.net

this mechanism allows for the creation of tokens that sites can use to verify an age. it does not seem to solve the problem of determining whether a person can create the token in the first place, or assign it, and how that verification process takes place and is privacy protective.

The exchange issueing the tokens has to implement KVC. Nevertheless, the token can be used anonymously for a payment transaction. It only has one characteristic that indicates that the payer is a minor.

Right now, AU10TIX (in this instance) verifies the identity, then communicates via HTTPS with the platform/provider that the user is above a certain age. Your suggestion would swap AU10TIX for an exchange. That doesn't solve the concern—someone still has to determine the identity of the user.

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When the customer spends the coin (5) or the merchant deposit (6), nobody can link the coin to the bank account of the customer spending the coin.

When the exchange creates the coin it can add a property which can be checked by anybody. In our case the merchant checking, if this coin was issued for a minor.

I understand that the coin protects the user’s identity. That’s good! But how does the exchange, which has to verify the user’s identity, protect the user’s identity?

As I am not a member of the GNU Taler team this question is beyond my knowledge. At least there is an informative page taler.net/en/kyc.html about KYC.

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