Post #1287071

2026-03-24 11:24 UTC

In Belgium we have « it’s me » which is government - backed. Based on configuration you can integrate a service with it and, if the service is respectful and not greedy, you can get a flag indicating majority of a person without the full PII. The user sees on its screen what data will be provided to the service. So it’s rather transparent and honestly not bad from a privacy perspective.

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@endlesseden@pyfedi.deep-rose.org 2026-03-24 12:53

it's government backed, their for the government knows every time it's used and it identifies you... when a service requests to use it, it becomes correlation data... this is data both the government and the application developers can use to identify you on the internet. It may mean nothing today, but I can and will if either the application switches developers to a nation who uses this information for nefarious means. or if your government changes policies to something intentionally nefarious. blind trust is never good.

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@wildbus8979@sh.itjust.works 2026-03-24 12:44

Does "it's me" know which service is using it? Yeah? So it's not private at all.

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@CameronDev@programming.dev 2026-03-24 12:47

That is definitely one way to do it, but it does get messy from the services side, every service needs to support a few thousand jurisdictions. It's also basically the notary system the OP described. We have mygovid here on Aus, but there is a lot of distrust given its a "big government" ID system.... It doesn't do age verification though, but it would be suitable for it

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