Technology

congrats everyone on your two free months of credit monitoring

A certain subset of people: "B-but at least it stops kids seeing photos of dental decay!!!1111"

Anyone still defending age verification online is an idiot.

Proofs the UK is a shithole as well funnily enough.

Nothing against the Brits but their government oh damn that's bad.

Just roll all the class actions into a UBI fund for the people

Politicians: That's the point.

Joking aside, now that I think about it, what difference does does it make if companies are stealing infos and spying on you with government mandated age verification checks, and hackers stealing your government mandated age verification info? This just reinforces my view that governments (and companies) are nothing but glorified gangsters.

So, I looked at age verification - it was made clear photos were on device only and never transmitted.

If this turns out to be false, then the legal fallout would be apocalyptic.

(Edit: or not, see the comment by ambitiousprocess below)

And this is why this provide xyz private information for verification bs should be illegal

so instead of creating some kind of authorization system that would not require sending your private information to everyone the govt did nothing and instead put that responsibility on EVERY company. begs the question why rushing so much?

The fact that these photos and PII (personally identifiable information) were not destroyed after the verification process was certified is absolutely atrocious OpSec. I don't even care which of the two companies is ultimately responsible, because they are both responsible.

1. Zendesk for their bad OpSec
2. Discord for both outsourcing this AND not having contractual requirements to properly secure and destroy PII when it was no longer required.

I work in IT, and treat PII like it's dangerously radioactive, because in the digital world, it really is.

That's why I used a picture of my anus for my age verification photo. The wrinkles are what sold it, I think.

this is why i dont give my ID to any service(obv including Discord) anymore.

Thank god I never gave them an image.

More than half of them turn out to be AI

Hmm, I don't recall ever doing age verification for Discord. Were older accounts grandfather'd in, or is it currently limited by region or something?

the only person who's allowed to verify my age is my cat because he won't stop being a dick about it

Fuck Discord

I've criticized the sort of personal information that is allowed to be managed by banking entities in the cases of Accidental Americans, where people who have nothing to do with America except that they were born in the US have their data handled by private entities to be passed onto governments they've never been in. Public entities that should handle and be responsible for it in their actual home countries want to wash their hands off from them and there's too much money against too small of a minority for anyone to care about their rights. It doesn't matter how banks have consistently proven that they or their staff can act criminally, either.

At least here, it affects a lot more people so it will likely bring in the change and reform it needs, even if the sensitivity of this data is significantly less.

Gonna have to say, this guy is definitely gonna be screwed by this:

Oh no it's that thing everyone would say would happen!