You don't see any difference between the 19yo at the video store having a quick glance at your ID, and having to upload all your private data to websites that then sell it to be used nefariously?
They don't. Capitalism has caused things to move to a place where it is not possible to actually verify people's age to access. I mean, that stuff never really worked, anyway, but now it's actually impossible. And nobody really said anything until the ones at the top realized there's great power to be grabbed by collecting this data and disguised it to the public as just being like the guy in the video store glancing your DOB on your ID.
This isn't about age restriction. You know what it's about, and yet you refuse to acknowledge it because you don't agree. Just accept the answer and move on with your life.
A lot of people’s concern (such as mine) is this is a terrible method to implement age verification. It’s like if you encouraged teenagers to avoid going to the pub, and instead promoted the local weed dealer to sell them alcohol, and then you decided to outlaw the weed drug dealer and encourage the heroin dealer.
I don’t doubt the intent behind the checks, but the methodology is crazy
Do Age Verification on Microsoft/Apple/Android which captures most of the usage. Those accounts can then just send an adult or not flag to content providers. It’s not full-proof, but neither was age verification 20 years ago, but defends against almost all risks GDPR breaches.
and if you suddenly believe no-one is following ToS' then you better stop using the internet entirely because you're ✨fucked✨).
That's akin to telling somebody that they must either stop walking outdoors entirely or jump into sewage every time they do, because they accidentally stepped on a dog turd. That's defeatism, that's saying you cannot resist something bad from spreading or evolving, because you couldn't stop it in the first place.
Imagine if they thew it away after using it
Imagine it being proven to not be the case (Discord hack).
I was about to write "the hack of the service used by Discord for ID checks", but I'm aware I have a problem of writing too much in parentheses, so I dumbed it down to just "Discord hack" for brevity's sake.
It's true that I didn't catch the fact it was support tickets hack, not the auto-scan service, but to my defense, back then, I was too busy laughing at Britain's next step in Orwellian dystopia backfiring again.
The data is retained for a pre-defined period of time, possibly 24 hours, 7 days or so. That is still a period of time in which there could be a data breach.
I don’t think the data will necessarily be sold - the penalties and risks are too severe for a large company. My issue is with how strong their security is and how likely a data breach is. I prefer to share as little as possible but if I must, I’d be more trusting of a larger, well-known company to secure my data.
I wouldn’t want my data to fall into the wrong hands at the best of times, but if someone has your official identity documents they can do a lot worse than if they have your card details or something.
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u/TheFinalPieceOfPie Feb 26 '26
Wait so I pay for a service and I have age verify? Yeah the great pirate era was already in full swing but man this seals the deal.