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> TruAge encrypts your data points and then protects them even further by creating anonymous tokens. These anonymous tokens cannot be traced back to you without legal authorization from a court-issued subpoena

Yes, I think you are right. There is probably a way to make a fully anonymous scheme.




> There is probably a way to make a fully anonymous scheme.

A fully anonymous scheme would be ripe for abuse: People would immediately take their keys and set up websites that exchanged age verification tokens for watching ads. Kids would visit these websites, watch an ad for 60 seconds, and get a fully anonymous age verification token in exchange.

Identity verification systems only work if everyone involved has some incentive to protect their identity. If the identity means nothing and nothing can be traced back to you, the tokens will be generated for next to nothing and handed out freely.

The idea is DOA.


>legal authorization from a court-issued subpoena

No good technological solutions which min-max on maximizing user sovereignty and privacy will allow the possibility of [GREENTEXT].




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