It is supposed to be anonymous with our MitID system, which is already in place for almost everything. How it works (on paper at least) is that the social media site would send a question to MitID, like “is this person at least 16?” And MitID just responds with yes/no
So again, in theory, no social media site should be getting your ID here. Only the government, which absolutely has it and is in fairly high trust from the people in Denmark.
The rub there is that the government probably now has a record of every site you have an account on.
What we really need is a system that’s anonymized in both directions. Where the website can verify the specific claim, age, nationality, etc, but the issuer of the verification, aka the government, can’t track where that verification has been used.
I think this should be possible, but it’s different from the way standard identity providers operate, and I haven’t heard of any of these government identity providers operating this way. That may be because it’s easier, and it may be because governments like the idea of knowing everything we do.
It is supposed to be anonymous with our MitID system, which is already in place for almost everything. How it works (on paper at least) is that the social media site would send a question to MitID, like “is this person at least 16?” And MitID just responds with yes/no
So again, in theory, no social media site should be getting your ID here. Only the government, which absolutely has it and is in fairly high trust from the people in Denmark.
The rub there is that the government probably now has a record of every site you have an account on.
What we really need is a system that’s anonymized in both directions. Where the website can verify the specific claim, age, nationality, etc, but the issuer of the verification, aka the government, can’t track where that verification has been used.
I think this should be possible, but it’s different from the way standard identity providers operate, and I haven’t heard of any of these government identity providers operating this way. That may be because it’s easier, and it may be because governments like the idea of knowing everything we do.