EFF argues that zero-knowledge proofs, promoted as a privacy-preserving fix for online age checks, don't actually solve the problems with age verification mandates spreading across US states, the EU, and Australia. The group warns that token-issuing systems can be gamed or breached and leave metadata trails linking users back to whoever verified them. It also cautions that concentrating verification in a few issuers creates a single chokepoint that governments could exploit to cut off access.
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