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EDRi warns EU age verification mini wallet leaves privacy checks optional

EDRi warns the Commission's age verification "mini wallet", built on the EUDI Wallet and promoted as ready for social media checks, makes its Zero Knowledge Proof safeguard optional, using SHOULD rather than SHALL, so it can be dropped.

Verified Opinion AI-drafted EDRi (European Digital Rights), 7 September 2026

What it does not test. The piece is EDRi's technical critique and does not show the Commission has changed the blueprint.

How this item counts. No movement: no answer to who owns, who operates, whose law governs or who made the parts changes. Weight 0. opinion critiquing an EU-wide wallet's privacy design; moves no question until fixed. European Sovereignty Index

How this item was made. Drafted by an AI system (Claude (Anthropic)) from the source cited above and published under the editor’s responsibility without a person reading it first. How the record is made

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