[seb1204]

Hold on a minute. Australians are for kids and teens social media ban. They have not been asked if their minors are all face catalogued by pop up companies that these social media companies externalise the verification process to. Insta and others simply opened the need for such 3rd party verification services, it's a way to limit their liability and risk. For Insta and co it's not their problem if these new 3rd party services become the next identity database of minors. I hate it.

[Gigachad]

I think we will eventually see age verification become more like credit card processors where some kind of industry standard for secure processing is agreed on, where most companies do not implement it themselves, and where the providers who do implement it do it securely.

There is no requirement to store ID information to verify ages and it's actively beneficial to delete everything after the verification is done.

We might also see governments implement some kind of zero knowledge APIs where companies can check with the government API if the user is over age without knowing who the user is and without the government knowing what they are signing up for.