French data protection regulator CNIL proposed a double-blind solution, in which cryptographically signed age assurance certificates could be generated and provided to age-restricted websites without identifying or tracking the user. Spain’s AEPD came out in favor of device-based age verification, suggesting that the risk of age assurance being used by predators to find children online needs to be mitigated. The euCONSENT consortium formed a new non-profit in Belgium and secured a grant from the Safe Online fund to carry out the development. Age verification providers Yoti, AgeChecked and VerifyMy were part of the original euCONSENT project team, and were tapped to design a proof of concept for the system.