Evidence for zero knowledge provides a transparency solution that maintains your sensitive data.

Opinion

What if you can prove that you are more than 18 years old, without revealing your birthday, name, or anything else at all? Zero knowledge evidence (ZKPS) Make this hypothetical reality and solve one of the main challenges online: checking age without sacrificing privacy.

The need to check for a better age today

We are witnessing an increase in laws that are proposed to restrict the access of minors to social media and the Internet, including in Australiaand FloridaAnd China. To protect minors from the inappropriate adult content, the owners of platforms and governments are often running with stretched solutions between inaction and transgression.

For example, Louisiana has recently been written in the United States a law aimed at preventing minors from watching porn. The sites require users to download an identifier before viewing the content. The Freedom of Expression Alliance defied the law as unconstitutional, which made the issue that violates the first amendment rights.

The lawsuit was eventually rejected on procedural foundations. However, the reaction of the dilemma facing policy makers and platforms is highlighted: how to block the palace without violating adult rights or creating new private risks.

Traditional age verification failed

Current age verification tools are either ineffective or invasive. It does not make sense, as users can simply lie about their age. Excessive invasive identity verification. No person should be asked to download their most sensitive documents, which exposes themselves to the risk of violating data and stealing identity.

Biometric solutions such as fingerprints and facial wiping are comfortable for users, but they raise important moral, privacy and security concerns. Biological measurement systems are not always accurate and may generate false positives and negatives. The irreversible nature of data, which cannot be changed like a regular password, is also less than perfect.

There are also other methods, such as behavioral tracking and checking the AI’s browser patterns, which are a problem, using machine learning to analyze the user reactions and identify patterns and anomalies, which raises fears of a culture of monitoring.

ZKPS as a solution to preserve privacy

Zero knowledge evidence provides a convincing solution. Like a government identity provider, the reliable entity is achieved from the user’s life and generates an encoding guide that confirms that it is more than the required age.

Web sites only need to verify the guide, not excessive personal data, ensure privacy while keeping minors in gates. Central data is not required, which reduces the burden on platforms such as Google, Meta and WhatsApp and eliminating data violations.

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ZKPS is widely adopted and enforced

ZKPS is not a silver bullet. It can be complex for implementation. The idea of ​​”do not trust, verify”, which has been proven by mathematics, may cause some organizational doubts. Policymakers in confidence in the encryption evidence may be reluctant to verify the visible identity.

There are occasions that companies may need to reveal the personal information of the authorities, such as during the investigation of the financial Crime Or government inquiries. This would challenge ZKPS, which you intend to be the platforms not to keep these data in the first place.

ZKPS also struggles with expansion and performance, being somewhat intense and difficult in the program. Effective implementation techniques are exploited and achievements, such as Nuer Programming language makes ZKPS easier for developers, which leads to the adoption of safe and first privacy solutions.

A safer and more intelligent future to verify age

The Google Step to adopt ZKPS to verify an age is a promising indication that the prevailing platforms have begun to adopt privacy preservation techniques. But to realize the potential of ZKPS, we need more than isolated solutions reserved in monopolistic ecosystems.

The original encrypted wallets can go further. Blockchain Open Systems Open Systems provides an inter -operating, integration, and programming identity. Through one guide, users can access a set of services via the open web – no need to start from zero point each time, or trust one Google with their accreditation data.

ZKPS volatility on the Internet identity – proof of what matters, without exposing anything else. They protect the user’s privacy, the auxiliary platforms remain compatible, and the ban on minors from restricted content, all without creating a new fuse of sensitive data.

Google’s adoption of ZKPS shows that the prevailing momentum is a building. But to truly transform digital identity, we must embrace the indigenous systems that give users to control what they share and who are online.

In a specific monitoring era, ZKPS provides a better way forward – a safe, special and designed path for the future.

Opinion: Andrei Omeystenski, General Adviser, and Ommi Abraimi, Legal Adviser to the Aztec Laborators.

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