Online chat service Discord has announced it will begin testing age verification for some users, joining a growing list of platforms trying to work out who is actually behind the screen.

Online chat service Discord has announced it will begin testing age verification for some users, joining a growing list of platforms trying to work out who is actually behind the screen.

  • Artwork@lemmy.worldEnglish
    32·
    2 days ago

    Some civilian approaches to be mentioned is how the verification is handled in Lithuania, Latvia, and Estonia, for example:

    Smart-ID is the easiest, safest and fastest way to authenticate yourself online, register in e-services and sign documents…

    Using Smart-ID for personal identification is free, totally unlimited and you can download the app on all of your Android and iOS smart devices…
    Or, if you feel more comfortable doing it in a bank, take your national identification document like a passport or an ID-card with you and visit your local bank office for identity validation…

    What’s more, you can use Smart-ID to access e-services from your other devices too. Say you prefer to use a computer for your online banking and you have Smart-ID on your smartphone. No worries, you can use Smart-ID on both. You can login to e-services using your computer and the smart device, or the smart device only…

    Smart-ID can be used to log in to e-services, for online banking and for signing documents.

    Source: https://www.smart-id.com/

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    Smart-ID itself has no age restrictions for its users – but age limits have been set by identity providers and depend on the Smart-ID account type and authentication method chosen…

    Creating a Smart-ID account for a minor requires a parent/legal guardian to authenticate their account…

    Don’t just click “continue”: read the instructions on the screen carefully and double check that all the information you enter is correct, and the whole process will be easy and stress-free… The child cannot continue with their registration until we’ve got one parent approval…

    Source: https://www.smart-id.com/help/faq

    • Onomatopoeia@lemmy.cafeEnglish
      11·
      1 day ago

      Oh, yea, give me a single government controlled ID app/database, that makes me feel secure.

      • Artwork@lemmy.worldEnglish
        2·
        1 day ago

        This application is a must to have in these countries, since there’s just too many limitations without it. For example, in case you need to access a Bank abroad without the “PIN-Calculator” and SMS. Otherwise, there’s digitalized ID Card option, which then supports NFC and common card readers you could connect to a portable USB card reader. Yet, it also requires a biometry to create one: https://www.migracija.lt/ (I want to get the personal identity card and/or the passport of the Republic of Lithuania…)

        Log in form example from Swedbank LT

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        Source: https://swedbank.lt/private

        Perhaps, we travel or live in too different regions, and where I usually adventure it’s already required to have an ID, also frequently backed by biometric data, to be stored at Government’s databases.

        This interactive map displays the presence of National IDs and electronic IDs, including biometric IDs, in countries globally.
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