Post #1479752
2026-02-20 11:01 UTC
@fluffykittycat The age verification mandates are coming whether or not privacy tech exists - that's literally what the Mullvad VPN post that started this thread is about. The question is whether those mandates get implemented with systems that deanonymize people (which is what you're rightly worried about) or with systems where deanonymization is mathematically impossible.
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@dotfox@mastodon.social 2026-02-20 11:02
@fluffykittycat And here's the thing: the mere existence of a privacy-preserving alternative gives people a much stronger argument against invasive systems. Right now when governments push for identity verification, the response is just "don't do it." If a working ZK-based system exists, the argument becomes "there is no reason to collect identity data - you can verify what you need without it." That's a far harder argument for surveillance states to dismiss.