Hackers Expose The Massive Surveillance Stack Hiding Inside Your “Age Verification” Check
Hackers Expose The Massive Surveillance Stack Hiding Inside Your “Age Verification” Check
We’ve been saying this for years now, and we’re going to keep saying it until the message finally sinks in: mandatory age verification creates massive, centralized honeypots of sensitiv…Techdirt
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mctoasterson
in reply to Lost_My_Mind • • •Agree but this does need to be explained to people who aren't in the know. These laws are currently being marketed as "put the power in parents hands" in various states left, right, and center.
Its a good bet when there seems to be widespread bipartisan push for restrictive laws that literally no one asked for, it's gonna be something bad. But you have to explain to mouthbreathers in the electorate why or this shit just gets rammed through.
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Zephorah
in reply to mctoasterson • • •There’s no explaining it to the public at large in our forums. We already know. Unless people suddenly watch a couple trusted news sources en masse and those news sources choose to explain, ignorance will rule.
But then that’s the entire point of fracturing information like this. Fake news. Don’t trust science. That’s woke, don’t listen. Etc.
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irelephant [he/him]
in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ • • •the watchers: how openai, the US government, and persona built an identity surveillance machine that files reports on you to the feds
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in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ • • •Was looking at a used car online. Found a site that had option to 'reserve' the car until paperwork was done. Started innocuously with email and phone info, to text updates. Fine. Then it asked to verify info, with scans of driver's license.
Persona.
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in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ • • •Behold the glorious Corpo Web, may we all be Verified in its name
douglasg14b
in reply to ☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆ • • •Damn ain't that the truth.