Deutsche Telekom and Scytáles Awarded by EU Commission for Age Verification

Scytáles AB, a Swedish-based digital identity specialist, in partnership with Deutsche Telekom AG, via its subsidiary T-Systems International GmbH, has been selected by the European Commission to develop a revolutionary age verification solution. The contract for an Age Verification Solution is a landmark project that advances the EU's Digital Services Act (DSA) initiatives and sets new standards for digital identity management. The solution will encompass a privacy-centric approach that ensures personal data is protected while providing a robust method of age verification.

It is definitely the wrong solution to the underlying problem.

Handing out more and more personal data to companies, even approved by the EU, is not a 'digital identity', its the next step to 1984.

As long as personal data is stored at some companies server, it's not protected, it's held hostage.