Do not comply.

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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...)

pingu :fedora:

@Em0nM4stodon Just do not do so.
No system is safe. No one guarantees privacy and data keep.

Epic Null

@codinghorror @Phracker2Art @Em0nM4stodon Or give them somewhere else to go.

💀Maggot McFear💀

@Em0nM4stodon And absolutely lie when asked for invasive, potentially compromising information like date of birth.

TroikaFox

@Em0nM4stodon
Boosted, and I hope everyone in the Fediverse sees it

Em :official_verified:

@DenDu68

Phracker

@codinghorror @Em0nM4stodon
Too many people chose to stay on Twitter after Elon Musk took over, because all their friends were on that platform.

⠠⠵ avuko

@breathOfLife @Em0nM4stodon

With my apologies to my German friends, but from our collective history, my most direct association is #AusweisBitte!

And it is not about age, it’s about creating a global panopticon. They (many of them the very same people) have been planning and working towards this for years.

#AgeVerification #NeverAgain #HellNo #DoNotComply

Miriam

@bendik @Em0nM4stodon Congratulations! You will be so glad you pruned your social media down to platforms you can control. I only miss instagram and I’ve found others ways to find cool stuff.

ConstellationUnion

@Em0nM4stodon

Biometrics are more taken than asked for is my theory.

retnal scanning, face scanning, all of it is as old as computer science. When has permission ever been given?
Discord has been in the news from the beginning about research on the methods.
people just don't care since they just want their apps.
shiny new smelling apps any app.... ..

then, people are taught that as long as it's a private sector endeavor it must be good for you.

Christopher

@Em0nM4stodon
But I might have to move to a marginally less convenient set of products!!!1!

Wandering Adventure Party

Do not comply.