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Deutsche Telekom and Scytáles Awarded by EU Commission for Age Verification (scytales.com)
1 points by scytales 489 days ago
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Scytáles AB, a Swedish-based digital identity specialist, in partnership with Deutsche Telekom AG, via its subsidiary T-Systems International GmbH, has been selected by the European Commission to develop a revolutionary age verification solution. The contract for an Age Verification Solution is a landmark project that advances the EU's Digital Services Act (DSA) initiatives and sets new standards for digital identity management. The solution will encompass a privacy-centric approach that ensures personal data is protected while providing a robust method of age verification.
> a landmark project that advances the EU's Digital Services Act

The only thing this advances is government surveillance over which services EU citizens are allowed to use. You should be ashamed for working on this and colluding with oppressing governments.

It is definitely the wrong solution to the underlying problem.

Handing out more and more personal data to companies, even approved by the EU, is not a 'digital identity', its the next step to 1984.

As long as personal data is stored at some companies server, it's not protected, it's held hostage.

Under this initiative, no personal data is transferred to companies, as it always stays in control and possession of the user. Please read more about it and about the European Digital Identity Wallet initiative, since it may answer some of your concerns :)