Do not comply.

Grow Fediverse

@Em0nM4stodon Remember these cowards for years told you that it was too costly & complex to follow laws to keep you safe.

Tech bros when the law protects consumers: "It's too hard, there's nothing we can do"

Tech bros when the law wants them to narc to fascists: "We must comply right away, so tomorrow we're globally rolling out our new Buttverify system, our new ai agent that crawls up your anus and takes a picture to send to your country's Customs agency."

Nömenlōony

@Em0nM4stodon looking at you, #Discord

DB

@Em0nM4stodon Another example is LinkedIn

Intaglio Whitegraven

@Em0nM4stodon Whenever I see discussions about online ID/age verification come up, I tend to see a few people speaking up about ZKP (zero knowledge proofs). Admittedly, I know almost nothing about it, but a cursory read on the subject makes it sound like it could be a solution to the problem.

Of course, this is assuming that one takes the stated/claimed problems (e.g. protecting age-restricted spaces from those who are underage) at face value. When it's more likely that the goal of these programs is broad surveillance and control, which nobody would willingly accept if it was presented so plainly.

GreatLakeTrout

@Em0nM4stodon

ava_doll

@Em0nM4stodon That’s deep. I never thought about it like that. Saying no to sharing my data feels kinda rebellious now. Power to the people!

Yangsi Janis Joplin

@Em0nM4stodon if it is something you WANT to see for any valid reason including curiosity* figure out how to get it surreptitiously...an easy example is to troll friends online who have consumed the info already, there are many ways to procure content, foia and lawsuits being legal, and of course I would never advocate breaking any laws.

Especially now. For all our protection.

But encourage the little daily praxes as a way to stay aware, nimble and reàdy for good opportunities

*As long as the curiosities are not, like, Epstein class

TheZwick32

@Em0nM4stodon
Check out the list of companies that can access ALL OF YOUR PERSONAL DATA through the most popular facial tracking company, Persona:

BrianKrebs (@briankrebs@infosec.exchange)

Attached: 1 image If you're on LinkedIn and are thinking about verifying your account with them, maybe read this first. It walks through LinkedIn's privacy disclosure to identify 17 companies that may receive and process the data you submit, including name, passport photo, selfie, facial geometry, NFC data chip, national ID #, DoB, email, phone number, address, IP address, device type, MAC address, language, geolocation etc. Unsurprisingly, it seems the biggest recipients are US-based AI companies. https://thelocalstack.eu/posts/linkedin-identity-verification-privacy/

Infosec Exchange (infosec.exchange)

Phracker

@Em0nM4stodon
We need to boycott any platforms that request personally identifying information. They won't stop doing it until we hit them where it hurts - in the wallet.

Bendik

@Em0nM4stodon This this this. I just came back to the fediverse after fully leaving Meta and Snapchat ++ behind. I guess I’m leaving Discord soon too.

Em :official_verified:

@Phracker2Art

Simon Zerafa

@Phracker2Art @Em0nM4stodon

Already underway!

Em :official_verified:

@simonzerafa @Phracker2Art

Jasper Thunderpaw

@Em0nM4stodon all stuff which the west prides itself on and forces onto the entire world, meanwhile doin exactly the opposite of that.

mirabilos

@Em0nM4stodon except for Pearson-Vue, where you pretty much have no choice

mirabilos

@Em0nM4stodon (except, avoid biometrics by going to some random company holding the training instead of to an official centre of theirs)

numanumayey

@Em0nM4stodon

i'm not gonna sugarcoat it.

age verification laws are a #PersonaBackdoor

Jeff Atwood

@Phracker2Art @Em0nM4stodon “but my friends are there” well, get more and better friends.

Em :official_verified:

@breathOfLife Well said

numanumayey

@Em0nM4stodon

can we make this the hashtag when referring to things?

or would something like #IDBackdoor, or #PrivacyBackdoor make more sense to the average person on the street?

either way, the point is, #ageverification sounds way too nice for what it actually entails in practice and #deanonymization sounds too posh

actually #LegalBackdoor makes more sense, because these laws are unironically a security issue that forces admins to adopt questionable security practices that are then exploited by crackers.

(then again, if that happened, the governments could also have admins on the hook for bad data management if a breach happened...)

Wandering Adventure Party

Do not comply.

BrianKrebs (@briankrebs@infosec.exchange)