Protecting privacy online brief

A brief from the Open Technology Institute supports the use of zero-knowledge proofs to verify users’ ages. This verification process is said to have better protection for personal privacy. 

How does this work? Remember when liquor stores were given permission to scan your id for age verification but they retain no information? Similar process here in that the “user can prove their information to the verifying party without revealing that information itself, just its validity.”  

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