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The central service verifying age status still knows that they're being contacted by what service. That means that centralized server knows what services you're using.
How the fuck do you consider that private? All you've done is centralized the spying
Have you even bothered to do any research at all into what pseudosignatures are and how they can be used? Or are you just trolling?
Valve could simply set up an instance of an eID server software and get a digital certificate for it authorized by our respective national PKI chain. Functionally the same to how TLS certificate chains work. There is zero technical need for any information to flow between Valve and any other party - the state or otherwise - about who is being age verified. And Valve would not be able to get any information about you other than what I've already explained.
Seriously, the brainrot on here seems to be as bad as on Reddit. And btw: This has been state-of-the-art for more than ten years.
Apparently you can't fucking read. Here's how this shit goes:
You make an account on Pornhub. Pornhub then asks the government if the eID you pointed to them is an adult. The government, knowing who is fucking asking and who fucking owns the eID now knows you have a PornHub account.
Sure, they didn't give your info to PornHub, and the government doesn't know exactl which account is yours. But that doesn't matter. Neither of those organizations should be collecting that information about you.
But go ahead and keep licking that technofascist boot.
You're either misinformed or are willingly spreading misinformation.
The other reply already explained but I'm going to repeat in my own words again so that you may understand:
Your data is stored on your physical ID card. You create an account on Pornhub. Pornhub then asks you to prove your age. You hold your card against your phone or card reader, provide your PIN and the information that was requested (in our case a pseudonym and a yes/no whether you're over 18) is transmitted directly from your device to pornhub.
There is no government server (or any third party server for that matter) involved in the process. The only thing the government knows is that they once gave pornhub a certificate to prove to users they really are pornhub.
That would be you, because you keep being wrong with virtually every single line. Here's how it goes with pseudosignatures:
You make an account with Valve. Valve has previously received the appropriate certificate to perform age verification from the state, so Valve does not communicate with the state now: They present their certificate to the hardware chip in YOUR ePerso, which then creates a pseudonymous signature to send back to Valve that digitally proves the legal age of whoever the ePerso belongs to (and nothing more).
No thanks, but you go right ahead - someone entrenched in blind ideology is for sure not an ideal mark.