Privacy
Privacy
How age can be proven without disclosing identity, and what privacy-preserving actually has to mean to be worth anything.
Privacy-Preserving Age Verification, Explained
Almost every age-verification product now describes itself as privacy-preserving. Five specific questions — about the request, retention, identifiers, reporting granularity, and the schema — tell you whether the phrase means anything.
How Age Can Be Verified Without Sharing a Date of Birth
A mobile ID contains signed boolean elements such as age_over_21 alongside the birth date. A verifier can request the boolean on its own, which means the business learns whether someone qualifies without learning their birthday.
What Selective Disclosure Means in Practice
Selective disclosure is the property that lets a mobile ID release individual verifiable fields instead of the whole document. It works because each element is committed to separately, so a subset can still be proven authentic.
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