βΌοΈ The European Commission has allowed a citizens' initiative demanding EU law keep digital ID and age verification voluntary, privacy-preserving and non-discriminatory for accessing online services.
The initiative called 'Stop Killing The Internet: No Digital ID & No Age Verification' now needs 1 million signatures across at least 7 member states within 12 months. Once the target is hit, Brussels must formally answer, right as it rolls out the EU Digital Identity Wallet and pilots its age-verification app.
@htmx_org My dad had a workstation at home. He sold Medical Systems and one of their workstations had a broken fan so they couldn't sell it anymore. He bought it over not even a tenth of its retail price. Majority of the 90s and early 2000s he just had that beast as his desktop.