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In the US, the plan is to require adults to take a picture of their state ID and upload it to a third party that provides age verification. It's not explicitly part of the proposed law but there are only a handful of companies who meet the qualifications to provide this service (id.me, Persona) and this is how they do it.

I believe if you are a "minor" then you can go the post-a-selfy route.

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If someone wanted to be a martyr and just uploaded all their personal documents so they could be accessed by everyone, I wonder if an interesting court case might follow.

I could imagine it ending with a court ruling that people are responsible to protect their own personal documents which... yeah, that would muddy the waters in a world where every website expects to see your ID.

The verification apps are starting to require live video selfies to verify that the person doing the verifying is the same face as the person on the scanned ID credential.

> In the US, the plan is to require adults to take a picture of their state ID and upload it to a third party that provides age verification.

That's not just the plan - that's what's already legally required in many US states.

These laws were introduced by the explicitly religious right-wing groups like Exodus Cry and Morality in Media, as ways to de facto outlaw pornography (in their own words). They've since been laundered into the mainstream so the general public is unaware of the root cause.

Imagine so if that was a pltr right Or like someone who uses pltr What could possibly go wrong? People are being paranoid for no reason!

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