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.
Are you referring to a verification service running on the user’s device, or on a third party providers’ server?
Running a verification service on the user’s device can’t work, regarless of the approach. The software on the user’s device can be altered to give fake results.
Relying on a third party service to do remote verification imply trusting that third party isn’t giving fake results, regarless of the approach.
The company/org that needs to verify age should run the actual age verfication, ideally using a privacy-friendly method and a free reference implementation that got scrutiny from the public. It requires only trusting the gov issues acvurate ids, and trusing the math.