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EU age verification app to ban any Android system not licensed by
Google

 
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The following post was made on r/BuyFromEU, this seems relevant for
all of us degooglers living in an EU country:

The EU is currently developing a whitelabel app to perform
privacy-preserving (at least in theory) age verification to be
adopted and personalized in the coming months by member states. The
app is open source and available here: https://github.com/
eu-digital-identity-wallet/av-app-android-wallet-ui.

Problem is, the app is planning to include remote attestation feature
to verify the integrity of the app: https://github.com/
eu-digital-identity-wallet/av-app-android-wallet-ui?tab=
readme-ov-file#disclaimer. This is supposed to provide assurance to
the age verification service that the app being used is authentic and
running on a genuine operating system. Genuine in the case of Android
means:

  * The operating system was licensed by Google

  * The app was downloaded from the Play Store (thus requiring a
    Google account)

  * Device security checks have passed

While there is value to verify device security, this strongly ties
the app to many Google properties and services, because those checks
won't pass on an aftermarket Android OS, even those which increase
security significantly like GrapheneOS, because the app plans to use
Google "Play Integrity", which only allows Google licensed systems
instead of the standard Android attestation feature to verify
systems.

This also means that even though you can compile the app, you won't
be able to use it, because it won't come from the Play Store and thus
the age verification service will reject it.

The issue has been raised here https://github.com/
eu-digital-identity-wallet/av-app-android-wallet-ui/issues/10 but no
response from team members as of now.

All credit for the original post goes to /u/CreepyZookeepergame4.
Link to the original post: https://reddit.com/r/BuyFromEU/comments/
1mah79o/eu_age_verification_app_to_ban_any_android_system/

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