On Wed, Mar 4, 2026, at 9:42 AM, Vitaly Zaitsev via devel wrote: > In various countries, a scanned passport can be used to obtain a loan in > that person's name without their physical presence.
Exactly why the EU wants to avoid the necessity of scanned identity documents for their age verification purposes. What they have is a system where the requesting party (website, operating system, whatever) requests "is this user over 18" by generating a verification request. The user forwards this verification request to an authority (usually, an app on a smartphone, or a governmental site; both of which validate that the user has access to whatever the local implementation of eID is). If the request is valid to the authority it only responds with a 'your request was valid' to the requesting party. No other information goes to the requesting party. There are some ifs/buts especially when a governmental website is used as the authority but generally the idea is OK. That is *if* one subscribes to the idea of age verification at all :) -- _______________________________________________ devel mailing list -- [email protected] To unsubscribe send an email to [email protected] Fedora Code of Conduct: https://docs.fedoraproject.org/en-US/project/code-of-conduct/ List Guidelines: https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Mailing_list_guidelines List Archives: https://lists.fedoraproject.org/archives/list/[email protected] Do not reply to spam, report it: https://forge.fedoraproject.org/infra/tickets/issues/new
