Age Verification schemes come with a wealth of privacy, security, and access issues. ZKP’s aren’t going to solve any of them, they just kick the problem down the road. eff.org/deeplinks/2026/08/zkps

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@eff Interesting, but the main points against ZKPs could be clearer.

Just to make sure: the main downsides are centralisation and expected shittiness of underlying software, right? With more issues stemming from those two root causes.

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