Comment by mrweasel
The UK age verification seems to be "Upload your ID to a porn site", but that's not the EU solution from what I can tell. What the EU is building is an Identity Wallet, where your national online ID verifies your age with your wallet. The wallet can then tell the sites that yes, this person is in fact 16+ or whatever the age restriction is. How they plan to avoid having kids just borrow their parents phones I don't know, frequent reconfirmation maybe?
The mistake that UK, and probably others, have made is that the government isn't actually able to provide the required infrastructure.
If the solution is anonymous in the sense that the government doesn't see that I visit some site, and the site doesn't see who I am, then I struggle to see problem. This assumes that it's only applied to services and products that are already age restricted in the physical world already.
> How they plan to avoid having kids just borrow their parents phones
I think one can say that about alcohol too? How do they plan to avoid kids drinking the wine?
Maybe if the parents leaves knifes, wine and medicine and an unlocked mobile phone where the kids can find it, ... That's a problem that's hard to solve in a phone app?
> frequent reconfirmation maybe?
Maybe popping up face ID camera tests? Can be annoying, I suppose, if you were in the middle of something