EU age verification app to ban any Android system not licensed by Google

The EU is currently developing a whitelabel app to perform privacy-preserving (at least in theory) age verification to be adopted and personalized in the coming months by member states. The app is open source and available here: GitHub - eu-digital-identity-wallet/av-app-android-wallet-ui.

Problem is, the app is planning to include remote attestation feature to verify the integrity of the app: GitHub - eu-digital-identity-wallet/av-app-android-wallet-ui. This is supposed to provide assurance to the age verification service that the app being used is authentic and running on a genuine operating system. Genuine in the case of Android means:

  • The operating system was licensed by Google
  • The app was downloaded from the Play Store (thus requiring a Google account)
  • Device security checks have passed
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There is already an issue by Daniel Micay for this. Make sure to like/react to it if you have a github account.

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Another valuable reminder that the EU is not your friend when it comes to privacy. They only care about protecting your privacy from (American) tech companies, which is laudable, but they have no qualms about government overreach when it comes to themselves.

More Europeans need to realize this, and quickly, before they find themselves completely surveilled by the state.

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Agreed, and this goes for any government, like the US wanting to ban Chinese TikTok but doesn’t mind GAMMA surveillance.