The future of identification technologies will involve delegating tasks to automated agents. Between the decentralised dream and the password asphyxiation, a third actor is emerging: the automatic intermediary.
Europe’s age‑verification pilots conflate censorship with guardianship. This essay argues for a decentralised approach that separates technical filtering from social responsibility.
Until process isolation is granted for every execution of zero-knowledge algorithms, privacy-preserving technology won't protect us from mega-corporations spying on us.