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Yes, in a perfect world the downsides are limited. But in the world we live in I predict a lot more leaks similar to the Tea app hack (which contained a lot of passports, linked to some quite private data from chats like medical documents)

The biggest hope I see is that the EU also wants to implement age restrictions, but with a lot more effort to get it right and make it compatible with a strong desire for privacy. Maybe that will make "proper" implementations easy and common enough that many of the downsides will be mitigated





Leaks of what? The tea app are morons — they literally stored the data! Why did they do it? Why not to delete immediately after verification?

Anyway, there are two questions here:

1. Do we need to verify the age of internet users?

2. How can we do it without sacrificing privacy of everyone involved?


> Why did they do it?

You can't monetise the data you don't store


How can you monetize pictures of IDs?

Not sure yet, hence we'll keep it for when we figure that out



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