> it's so clearly a draconian slippery slope for invasive surveillance and choice restriction
It's a privacy preserving over 18 check.
Is it a "slope"? Sure, you can imagine an extension to the system that is "worse".
Is it "slippery"? This thing isn't draconian enough to be effective. It will be a minor speedbump that prevents exactly zero determined under-18's from accessing anything that they'd want to. So then the question is, does the government react by trying something more draconian, or does it give up?
Things like this are a pain in the ass for GrapheneOS users. It's not great to get locked out of legitimate usage of things when using an OS that actually puts privacy first.
Do you really think this will stop there? Websites need to contact an attestation server and the EU can just ban verification for any website they don't like.